Ira Brand
Biography
Ira is one of the Co-Directors of Forest Fringe. She is a London-based artist, performance-maker, writer, curator, and teacher, originally from Germany. She creates live interdisciplinary performances inspired by the questions and phenomena that she considers central to the experience of being human. Her process is one of using personal starting points to speak to wider social, political, and formal concerns. Her work incorporates text, video, interviews, and research process, and she increasingly works with choreographic practices, exploring a physical language of the ‘untrained’ body.
Her work has toured the UK extensively and has also been shown internationally at Malavoadora Porto, Matadero Madrid, Kanagawa Arts Theatre Yokohama, Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, and Abrons Arts Centre New York.
She is currently enrolled on the Masters programme at DAS Theatre in Amsterdam.