Lara Peres Rocha is an interdisciplinary performer and maker from Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently training at Northern School of Contemporary Dance where she will graduate with a Contemporary Dance BA (Hons) in 2023.

Previously she studied at Escola Artística António Arroio, achieving a diploma in Photography. She has recently worked and performed in ‘Hang in there, baby’ by John-William Watson, presented at Sadler’s Wells.

During training she has also performed works by Alethia Antonia, Gonçalo Lobato, Saju Hari, and her own improvised solo score ‘Dog’ at the Riley Theatre. In 2022 she presented the photographic work ‘A Impotência de Todas as Horas’ at Flock Fest. Additionally, she has taken part in workshops and festivals around the world, engaging with diverse cultural landscapes and international artists. Her personal practice is informed by the need to create meaning and express individual narratives from an autofictional perspective, often exploring existential themes.

She approaches her practice with curiosity, sensitivity, and a leading interest for people and what moves them. She enjoys the crossings between artforms such as dance and theatre, through which she finds new languages to express subjective experience. By making and performing she attempts to document her interactions with others and the world – like a big map of connections.