Lara Kramer​

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Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Her choreographic work, research and field work over the last sixteen years has been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. She is the first generation in her family to not attend the Residential schools. Kramer’s relationship to experiential practice and the creative process of performance, sonic development and visual design is anchored in the embodiment of experiences such as dreams, memories, knowledge, and reclamation Her creations in the form of dance, performance and installation; Remember that time we met in the future? (2026), Gorgeous Tongue (2024), Them Voices (2021), Eating bones and Licking bread (2020), Windigo (2018), Phantom stills & vibrations (2018) and NGS (“Native Girl Syndrome”) (2013), have been presented across Canada and Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, Belgium, Vienna, the US and the UK. She has received multiple awards, acknowledgments, and prizes for her work both as an Emerging and established artist. In 2018, Lara received the Jacqueline-Lemieux Prize for recognition of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement in dance. Two artworks from Kramer’s In Blankets, Herds and Ghosts were recently acquired by Pointe-à-Callière, Museum of Archaeology and History (2022-23). Lara Kramer is a Center de Création O Vertigo – CCOV Associate Artist since 2021.