I am Eva Recacha, an independent female choreographer who lives and works in London.
My choreographic work revolves around notions of power dynamics and the politics of the gaze. I bridge dance with ordinary life, highlighting the surreal and absurd aspects of our routines and codes of language.
I use movement and text in my work, and the relationship between these two layers, both hierarchically and aesthetically, is one of the key aspects of my work. Combining movement and text, I create tight rhythmical structures that function as a score. I play loosely with the idea of storytelling, probing multiple combinations of these two elements, generating a comedy of the absurd.
I have been commissioned work for the stage by Sadler’s Wells, The Place, South East Dance, Festival Santa Susana, EDge, and LCDS, as well as site-specific work by DanceXchange, Bloomberg SPACE, Opera Estate Festival Veneto, and Fundació LaCaixa and Trayectos.
I 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 I was a recipient of the Marion North Mentoring Award. In 2023 I was selected as a Twenty23 Aerowaves Artist with my work Because I Can, which subsequently toured in the UK and Europe.
I have been a Work Place artist at the Place (2012-2015) and a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist (2016-2019). My work has appeared in Time Out’s Best of the Year and has been presented in UK and at festivals in Europe.
My latest works are:
The Picnic. A large group piece exploring notions of cooperation nd utopia. Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and South East Dance and premiered in Autumn 2024. Co-created with scenographer Kate Lane, sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler, lighting designer Jackie Shemesh, dance artists Charlotte Mclean, Alicjia Nauman and Scilla Rajalin, and a cast of 15 London Contemporary Dance Students.
Because I Can, a solo on British iconic performer Lauren Potter, dealing with notions of female invisibility, ageing, and loss of power. Commissioned by The Place and South East Dance. Premiered in Spring 2022. Selected for Aerowaves 2023 and subsequently touring UK and Europe.
Is This A Dance? a work for young audiences made in collaboration with Lola Maury as part of company Lavaelo. Commissioned and co-produced by The Place. Premiered in Autumn 2022 and touring internationally in 2024/25/26 with appearances at Krokus Festival in Belgium (2024) and El Mercat de Les Flors in Barcelona, Spain (2025). The work currently exists in four languages: English, Bengali, Flemish and Catalan.
Aftermath, a piece dealing with notions of female visibility, value, and power, and the shift in the experience of those after motherhood. Commissioned and presented by Sadler’s Wells in 2018.
NEWS!
New projects include SUR.
SUR is a new dance work by Eva Recacha and Alberto Ruiz Soler, currently being develop between the UK and Spain with a team of international collaborators. SUR is accessible to blind and partially sighted people and is being made in English and Spanish versions.
SUR will be a work about friendship and migration..
We have just completed an R&D period with support from Arts Council England and a Choreodrome residency at The Place, as well as support from Trip Space (London) and Zapadores (Madrid).
As part of SUR‘s access development we are collaborating with access organisations and consultants in Spain and the UK: ONCE, Maria Oshodi, Robin Paley.
We aim to premiere this work in 2026. If you are interested please contact our producer Vasanthi Argouin.
