Photo by Kathryn Avila
Adam Tomás Torres is a Boston-based arts and culture worker, composer, performer, and movement artist whose work strives to highlight interdependence across communities and artistic mediums. His work often defies the constraints of specialization, incorporating his fascination with identity, rhythm, accessibility, and physical gesture. Implementing an interdisciplinary approach to creation and curation, Torres embraces a collaborative practice and is uniquely suited for such work given his array of creative backgrounds in composition, instrumental performance, dance, and project management.
Torres often collaborates with movement or media artists in his compositional work but has a background composing for chamber ensembles, theater, and film. As a pianist he focuses primarily on Romantic-era, Contemporary, and Latin-American genres. His movement practice includes rhythm tap dancing and improvisation which traditionally focuses on cramp-based steps and texture. Torres co-founded Yusephinum LLC, a Queer, BIPOC, Seattle-based artist collective with a proclivity for immersive art installations, and is currently the Public Art Project Manager at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.