Constanza Macras (AR) was born in Buenos Aires in 1970, 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. Combining dance, text, live music, and film, the interdisciplinary ensemble worked with state theatres like the Schaubühne Berlin and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, as well as with theatres of the free performing arts scene like Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) or Maxim Gorki among others. Since 2019 the company is resident of the Volksbühne Berlin.
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 such us the Festival d’Avignon, the Wiener Festwochen, the Seoul Performing Arts Festival, the Buenos Aires International Festival, the Attakalari-India Biennial, the Dance Umbrella Johannesburg, the Aarhus Festival, the Romaeuropa Festival, the LIFT London, the Santiago a Mil International Festival in Chile, the Bitef Festival, and many others.
Macras has given lectures and Masterclasses around the globe. She receives numerous commissioned work offers for national and international theatres, among others from The Goteborg Dance company of the Goteborg Opera House or The Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires Theater Basel in Switzerland.
In 2008 Macras received the Goethe-Institut Award for her piece HELL ON EARTH. She was also awarded with the Arts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) William L. Abramowitz Residency in 2010. Since 1961, this series has brought renowned performing artists and writers to MIT to perform, present public lectures, and collaborate with students in free programs. In the same year, Macras received the national German theatre award DER FAUST for best choreography for the piece MEGALOPOLIS. In 2021 Constanza Macras and her company won the Tabori prize, Germany´s highest award for the free performing arts scene, for her work and artistic development. And in 2024, she received the BZ Culture Prise, one of the most renowned distinctions in the country.
Macras also works in film. She has created the iconic choreographies for Yorgos Lanthimos’ multi-award-winning movies „The Favourite“(2018) and „Poor Things“(2023).
