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Lisa Parra is a choreographer, dancer and video artist. She received a graduate degree in Dance/Movement Therapy from the University of California at Los Angeles, undergraduate degrees in Dance and Psychology from UC Irvine and a certificate in Movement Analysis from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in New York. Her work examines themes of perception and body image in the contexts of communication, ritual and everyday experience. In particular she is interested in the construction or reconstruction of identity through imagery. This has recently included the use of 3D scanning technologies together with live dance, sound and text. She has performed and presented work in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Japan and Mexico. Several institutions have provided residencies and commissioned  her projects, including the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY), the Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve (Faro, Portugal) and NU2 (Barcelona, Spain). Lisa will be completing work in residencies this year at the Teatro Canal (Madrid, Spain) and Bilbao Eszena (Bilbao, Spain), where she plans to work on new dance and media projects with Spanish artists.