Elisa de la Luz Irsara is a dance performer and artist with Italian-Chilean roots, currently based in the UK. She graduated as a theatre performer from MTS Musical School in Milan and continued her studies in Berlin, where she was a freelance artist, working with Frantics Dance Company andindependent choreographer Veronika Heising. Elisa’s choreographic and movement language is based on observing the relationship between the body and space. Her practice explores psychophysical material and performative possibilities, viewing movement as a synthesis of external influencesand internal states. She is interested in the interplay betweenimagination and the body, and how inner experiences shape physical expression. Elisa’s work blends physical theatre and dance, focusing on psychological elements and the ways of being in movement.
Elisa is a graduate of the MA Dance: Performance programme at LCDS, where she was a member of the inaugural Cohort 01. During the programme she worked with project leaders such as Theo Clinkard, Jenna Jalonen, Hannes Langolf, Paleta, Benjamin Jonsson, AE Company (Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecoq), Edivaldo Ernesto, Horacio Macuacua, Jozef Frucek and Alexandra Reynolds under the course leadership of Tom English, Tina Afiyan Breiova and Dr Andrew Sanger and working closely with individual mentor Hannes Langolf.