Eva Recacha

Originally from Spain, Eva Recacha is a choreographer, dancer, researcher and educator.

Eva studied contemporary dance at London Contemporary Dance School where she graduated with an MA in Choreography, and she has worked as a teacher in Higher Education since 2005, lecturing at LCDS, Trinity Laban, Birkbeck, Candoco and Conservatorio Superior M de Avila (Spain).

As a choreographer, Eva has been commissioned to create original work for the stage by Sadler’s Wells, The Place, South East Dance, Festival Santa Susana, EDge, and LCDS, and site-specific work by Birmingham International Dance Festival, Bloomberg SPACE, Opera Estate Festival Veneto, Fundació LaCaixa, Dies de Dansa and Festival Trayectos.

Eva was a Place Prize Finalist for Begin to Begin: A Piece about Dead Ends, and for The Wishing Well, winning the public prize on three occasions. She was a recipient of the Marion North Mentoring Award being consequently mentored by Rui Horta. in 2023, Eva was a TWENTY23 Aerowaves priority artist, touring in UK and Europe with her work Because I Can, made in collaboration with sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler and the iconic UK performer Lauren Potter.

Eva has been an associate artist at the Place and a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist.

The relationship between movement, sound and text has been at the core of Eva's choreographic research, both structurally and emotionally. Together with long standing collaborator and sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler, Eva has developed a distinct dramaturgical style, challenging and probing hierarchies between physical, aural and semantic elements, giving rise to a complex intertwined aesthetic where no one element rules or dictates, instead sharing, supporting, challenging each other to build the structure of the work.

Currently working on:

  • I am investigating making dance work accessible for blind and partially sighted (BPS) audiences alongside long-standing collaborator and sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler. This exploration is part of a creative journey towards the making of their new work SUR, currently in R&D. During this research, we have developed the concept of Sound Dramaturgy and have explored embedding audio description in the original script of the work- rather than generate it as a post-production access tool.
  • As part of the investigation into Sound Dramaturgy Alberto, I have devised and delivered a series of artist-led workshops sharing, exploring and testing this concept with fellow artists and blind and partially sighted participants.
  • I have begun a close collaboration with scenographer Kate Lane. Together we have presented a paper at the International Federation of Theatre Research 2025 in Cologne on their work The Picnic. A costume from The Picnic will feature at the Critical Costume exhibition 2026 at the London College of Fashion.

I am interested in research collaborations in the following areas:

  • Relationships between sound/music/text (aural) and dance/movement. The relationship between scenography and movement. In general, anything to do with how the different strands of the medium work together (light, scenography, sound, movement, costumes, camera movement, etc)
  • Composition, craft, practice, structures, constructions and formsa across different art mediums (Music, architecture, dance, literature)
  • Dramaturgy
  • The Absurd, comedy, physical comedy
  • Movement in films
  • Collective movements (protests, gatherings, migrations, transportation, travel). Interested in human and non-human movement, group behaviour, and collective endeavours
  • Research into tactile and aural aspects of dance. Exploring a non-ocularcentric approach to dance (across making, performing and spectating dance).
  • Framing/presenting/producing void, absence, reluctance, passivity, pause, silence, stillness, lack of. The power of ‘not-doing’.
  • Exploring relations between dance making and literature. Mostly in the use or transposition of literary devices to the arena of dance and vice versa.

Publications and practice outputs:

  • The Picnic (2024) - stage work.

Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and South East Dance, premiered at Lilian Baylis at Sadler’s Wells. With support from London Contemporary Dance School and the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs at the Spanish Embassy in London. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

  • Because I Can (2022) - stage work.

Co-commissioned by The Place and South East Dance. Premiered at the Place. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Supported through Choreodrome. Selected for the European dance network AEROWAVES 23. Toured in the UK (Lancaster Arts, The Mill, The Place, Ageless Festival, The Dance Space) and the EU (Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival, Serbia, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy).

  • Is This A Dance? (2022) - stage work.

Commissioned and co-produced by The Place. Premiere at The Place. Toured in the UK (The Egg, Cambridge Junction, Grasmere School, Camden Schools Tour and King’s Cross Library in London) and EU (Krokus Festival 2024 in Belgium and El Mercat de Les Flors in Spain).