Luiza Moraes - Advocacy Coordinator

Luiza Moraes is a performance and movement artist who has recently relocated to Elgin, IL. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History from UFRGS. Following extensive training in Contemporary Dance with a special focus on somatic practices, she obtained an MA in Performance and Dance from CNDC/Angers and the University Paris 8. She is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner by the Feldenkais Institut Wien in Vienna, Austria. She lived and worked in Europe for 12 years, participating actively in festivals across Western and Eastern Europe. Her current interests orbit around accessing and reclaiming traditional knowledge, grief technologies, healing, migration and decolonial existing.