Born into a bourgeois, traditionalist, and cultured family – owners of the Teatro Real's number 1 season ticket – Victorina Durán was the daughter of a dancer of that theater and a career soldier.

[4] A year later she was part of the group of intellectual women and artists gathered by Maria de Maeztu to found the Lyceum Club [es] (within which she was a key player in the development of the Sapphic Circle of Madrid).

She also worked with Rivas Cherif on the creation of the Theater School of Art (TEA) in Madrid,[1] and made costumes and sets for the companies of Margarita Xirgu,[5] Federico García Lorca, and Irene López Heredia [es].

In collaboration with Susana Aquino she inspired the creation of La Cuarta Carabela, the Spanish Association of Seven Arts, the Indigenous Theater Group, and worked as a costume designer with the choreographer Mercedes Quintana.

Eva María Moreno Lago presented the doctoral thesis Victorina Durán escritora y artista del teatro de vanguardia at the University of Seville in 2018.