Lara Buffard is an international performance artist, designer and maker who incorporates symbolic and surrealistic visuals, igniting audiences wherever she goes. Lara is interested in exploring the personal, feminist strategies and subjectivities in a lived world; the liminal space between reality, fantasy, performance art and ritual.
This exploration extends to her work as a costume designer, where she creates performative garments that amalgamate the divine and the ephemeral, theatrical and natural, in a glamourously mythical result. Originally from Paris, Lara graduated in Museology and later in Theatre Performance and Contemporary Live Arts.
Recent design credits include Greek National Opera wit Saddlers Wells, National Theatre and costume and performance for the V&A, as part of their latest exhibition, Diva.
When she’s not performing, designing or lecturing at UAL and abroad, she is the creative producer for Body Intelligence Collective which involves contemporary dance and new technologies.
Overview & Contact
CH
Performance Neu-Oerlikon Art Festival
Jump!
2024
CH
UK
Costume Designer
Barry Can't Swim
2024
UK
CH
Performance, Genesis Zürich
Pachamama
2024
CH
GR
Costume Designer Greek National Opera
Living Room
2023
GR
UK
Performance V&A Museum London
Divatastque
2023
UK
UK
Performance Culpeper Garden
Green
2023
UK
UK
Costume Designer for Catherine Hoffmann
Wormhole of our Formation
2023
UK
CH
Costume Designer for Ilmars Stern
Etudes for Bones & Objects
2023
CH
UK
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
MAW
2022
UK
USA
PAUSA "Impromptus", Performance Art Festival New York
Breathe!
2022
USA
CH
Performance Tinguely Museum
Listen With My Eyes
2022
CH
UK
Collaboration with Sophie Cochevelou, Club Vanitas, The King’s Head, London
The Dollhouse
2022
UK