Biography
Eliza Soroga is London based performance artist from Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Performance Making (Goldsmiths University of London) and in Cultural Theory (National University of Athens). She has trained in Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre technique and Butoh dance. Her work is considered mainly as site-specific and explores the dynamic method of shaping everyday life into a performance.
Eliza was awarded as the Overall Winner in Performance & Video Art section on the 11th international Arte Laguna Prize held in Venice (March 2017) for her work Women in Agony.
Her work has been shown in galleries, museums and theatres including the V&A Museum (London), Battersea Arts Centre (London), Camden People’s Theatre (London), The Yard Theatre (London), Chisenhale Dance Space (London), St Pancras Old Church (London), 4 bid gallery (Amsterdam), Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (Athens), Bios (Athens) and diverse non-theatre sites in London, Athens, Venice, Paris & Amsterdam. Eliza is the Artistic Director of Re-Inventing Public Spaces and part of the Young Vic’s Theatre Directors Program.
She is currently part of the award winning Geraldine Pilgrim’s Company’s creative team & the interdisciplinary artist platform Gesamtatelier.