LARA BARSACQ

Lara Barsacq is a choreographer, dancer, and actress. She enjoys blending tracks between archives, fiction, embodiment, and documentary. Starting from history, autobiographical rituals, and the substance of reality, she attempts to imagine dances, metaphors, and to plunge into embodiment.

Trained at CNSMDP in contemporary dance, she joined the Batsheva Company, choreographer Ohad Naharin, between 1992 and 1996, training in international and local tours. From 1994 to 2004, she dedicated herself to choreography, whether for her projects or at the request of the CNSMDP, professional companies like the Batsheva Ensemble. She became a performer for the Jean-Marc Heim, ALias, Jérôme Bel, Lies Pauwels & Ben Benaouisse, Tristero, Les Ballets C de la B, le GdRA, Benny Claessens, Arkadi Zaides, the Zerep company, Danae Theodoridou, and Lisi Estaras companies. Since 2004, she has been as much an actress as a dancer, working from improvisations and author's texts. She has been performing in French since 2015 Lecture for everyone by Sarah Vanhee and is in the latest creation by Benny Claessens Learning how to walk, presented at KVS. She develops her choreographic work in collaboration with Gaël Santisteva.

After 15 years as a performer, Lara Barsacq returned to choreography by focusing on a personal project, the solo Lost in Ballets russes (2018), created in Brussels (La Raffinerie), as part of the LEGS Festival - Charleroi dance. In 2019, Lara created the trio IDA don't cry me love as part of the Biennale of Charleroi dance (La Raffinerie, Brussels). These first two pieces form a diptych. Lara's third project - Fruit Tree - was created on October 15, 2021, in Brussels, as part of the Biennale of Charleroi dance.

Lara Barsacq is an associate choreographer at Charleroi dance, which is committed to producing, presenting, and supporting her works from 2020 to the end of 2022.