How Movement Works

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 at London Contemporary Dance School and Trinity Laban, and her choreographic work is strongly influenced by her interest and expertise in choreological studies. In her choreographic work, Eva 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 was a Place Prize Finalist in 2011 and 2013, winning the public prize on three occasions. In 2014 she was a recipient of the Marion North Mentoring Award, and she was an associate artist at the Place (2012-2015) and a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist (2016-2019). In 2023 she was a Twenty23 Aerowaves selected artist with her work Because I Can, and in 2024 she premiered the large group piece The

Picnic, with sell out shows at the LBS at Sadler’s Wells. Her work has appeared in Time Out’s Best of the Year and has been presented in UK and at festivals in Europe. 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 Hons in Dance.