Natalia Lassalle-Morillo

Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a theater & film director, filmmaker, performer, visual artist and educator, whose work melds experimental ethnography and embodied performance in order to decentralize canonical narratives and reimagine our individual & collective histories. Natalia’s practice centers on excavating imagined & archived history, collective memory and personal mythology through collaborative research, rehearsal and filmmaking processes. Her methodologies seek to challenge modes of creating live performance and film, examining how the event of spectating embodied narratives addresses the geopolitical, social and cosmological context where the work is presented. She usually collaborates with non-trained performers (as opposed to actors) in her films, installations and theatrical works.
She earned a BFA in Experimental Theatre from NYU, & an MFA in Theatre Directing from CalArts. Her work is part of the KADIST collection, and she has been a resident artist at the Fonderie Darling (Montréal, QC), Miami Light Project (Florida), Beta-Local (Puerto Rico), and Konvent in Catalonia, Spain. She is a 2021 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, and will be part of Amant Foundation’s inaugural residency program in 2022. Natalia developed her practice nomadically in places such as New York, Montréal, Miami, Germany and Los Angeles, but she is currently based in Puerto Rico.