Cora Laszlo
Cora Laszlo is a Brazilian dance maker, teacher, and researcher currently based in LA, where she is a PhD candidate in Cultures and Performance at UCLA. Her work focuses on dance improvisation, presence studies, and critical pedagogies, and her practice is based on the Klauss Vianna Technique—a Brazilian dance and somatic education technique. Cora’s most recent evening-length works are “December 32nd” (2019), “Gambiarra” (2023), and “Até Quando” (2025). Her work has been presented in Brazil and the US, including at the Fowler Museum, First Draft LA, MR at Judson Church, Triskelion, ¡Spontaneous Combustion!, SESC (BR), and Teatro do Centro da Terra (BR). She is also the recipient of HTDS Art Residency in Joshua Tree (2025 and 2026), LEIMAY Arts in the Community Garden Fellowship (2021); City Artist Corps Grant (2021), and Proac-BR (2017 and 2025). She has worked with multiple artists, such as Victoria Marks, Emily Barasch, Jussara Miller, and Morena Nascimento. In dialogue with her artistic career, Cora is a dance scholar, holding a BA in Dance and a Licentiate degree in Dance Teaching from Unicamp (Brazil), a specialization degree in Klauss Vianna Technique from PUC-SP (Brazil), and an MA in Performance Studies from NYU.