Cuenca/Lauro Cuenca/Lauro is the artistic collaboration between Elisabetta Lauro and César Augusto Cuenca Torres. Both dancers and choreographers, they graduated from the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen and danced, among others, for Wu Kuo-Chu, Johannes Wieland and in Pina Bausch’s Sacre. They worked for several years at the State Theatre of Kassel, Germany, and in 2011 they founded Cuenca/Lauro with which they created the works Hay un no sé qué no sé donde and (zero). They obtained the Masdanza Choreography Award and the Premio Equilibrio Roma, and were selected in Italy for the Anticorpi XL and the NID Platform. Their work has been included in several international programmes and toured Italy, Europe and South America. Since 2018 Elisabetta Lauro has been focusing her energies on her own choreographic work and, with the external collaboration of Cèsar Augusto Cuenca Torres, she debuted in 2021 at the Festival Contemporanea di Prato with the work REGENLAND-Eulogy of darkness. The creation was selected for the European project FabricAltra and received a research grant. Between 2022 and 2023 Elisabetta created, in collaboration with her brother, the artist Gennaro Andrea Lauro, the performance ZugZwang. The work was included in the ResiDance XL residency programme and debuted in 2023 at the Danza in Rete Festival in Vicenza. The performance was selected for the NID Platform 2024. Elisabetta is currently working on the creation of LOGOS, part of a larger project entitled OBEY that investigates the dimension of the feminine and the concept of disobedience. She is a Sosta Palmizi associate artist and collaborates with the Invito alla Danza Barletta by which she is supported. In 2022 she founded the Collective KRASS in Italy for which she has signed the creations STEP IN, Magis and Hey Joe. In 2024 she was awarded the ApuliArte Award.