Nadia Lauro

Biography

Nadia Lauro is a visual artist and set designer. She has been developing her work for several decades in various contexts - scenic spaces, landscape architectures and museums. She has conceived set designs, environments, and visual installations with strong dramaturgical power, thus generating new ways of seeing and being together. Nadia Lauro has collaborated with the various international choreographers and performers: Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Frans Poelstra, Barbara Kraus, Emmanuelle Huynh, Fanny de Chaillé, Alain Buffard, Antonija Livingstone, Latifa Laabissi, Jonathan Capdevielle, Laeticia Dosh, and with Jennifer Lacey with whom she co-authored numerous projects. Les Presses du Réel published "Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro - Dispositifs Chorégraphiques" by Alexandra Baudelot. She received a New York Dance and Performance Award (The Bessie) for her visual installation in $Shot (Lacey/Lauro/Parkins/Cornell). In 1998 she founded the Squash Cake Bureau with the architect Laurence Cremel to develop landscape design and urban furniture projects. She designed concerts, conceived installations/performances, and has developed scripted environments in museums, theater houses, and art galleries in Europe, Japan, and Korea. For the 4th edition of the New Festival at the Centre Pompidou, she has presented "La Clairière" together with Fanny de Chaillé. Since 2014, Nadia Lauro is an associate artist to the Extension Sauvage Festival (Latifa Laabissi / Figure Project).