Course Leader: Eva Recacha
Eva Recacha is an independent female choreographer and dance lecturer who lives and works in London.
Eva lectures in Choreography, Improvisation, Composition and Choreological Studies in Higher Education (London Contemporary Dance School and Trinity Laban) and her choreographic work is strongly influenced by her choreological studies background and expertise.
In her choreographic work, Eva brigdes dance with ordinary life, highlighting the surreal and absurd aspects of our routines and codes of language. She uses movement and text, and the relationship between these two layers, both hierarchically and aesthetically, is one of the key aspects of her work. Combining these two layers Eva creates tight rhythmical structures that function as a score. She plays loosely with the idea of storytelling probing multiple combinations of these two elements, generating a comedy of the absurd.
Eva has been commissioned work for the stage by Sadler’s Wells, The Place, South East Dance, Festival Santa Susana, EDge, and London Contemporary Dance School, as well as site-specific work by DanceXchange, Bloomberg SPACE, Opera Estate Festival Veneto, and Fundació LaCaixa and Trayectos.
Eva was a Place Prize Finalist in 2011 for Begin to Begin: A Piece about Dead Ends, and in 2013 for The Wishing Well, winning the public prize on three occasions. In 2014 she was a recipient of the Marion North Mentoring Award.
She has been an associate artist at the Place (2012-2015) and a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist (2016-2019). Her work has appeared in Time Out’s Best of the Year and has been presented in UK and at festivals in Europe.
Her next work is The Picnic. A large group piece exploring notions of cooperation, utopia and misogyny. The Picnic is a Sadler’s Wells and South East Dance commission and will premiere in November 2024 at Sadler’s Wells.
Eva regularly teaches Choreological Studies at Trinity Laban on the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes and she is a Unit Leader at London Contemporary Dance School where she curates the Creative Structures and Methodologies Unit in YR1 on the BA in Dance.