Constanza Macras
Workshop Curator, Choreographer
Constanza was born in Buenos Aires, where she studied Dance and Fashion. She continued her dance studies at the Merce Cunningham Studios in Amsterdam and New York.
In 2003 she founded the international dance and theatre company CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK. In this company, Macras brings together actors, dancers, musicians and artists from a wide range of genres, backgrounds and countries. With more than 20 years history, the company has produced over 30 pieces, that toured worldwide to more than 115 cities and have been shown at the most important theater festivals of the world.
Macras received Goethe-Institut Award, Arts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the national German theatre award DER FAUST for best choreography, the B.Z. Kulturpreis, and also won the Tabori prize, Germany’s highest award for the free performing arts scene, for her work and artistic development.
Macras also works in film. She has created the iconic choreography for Yorgos Lanthimos’s multi-award-winning films The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023), as well as for Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player for Netflix.