Elia Arce | 1995 bio

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Arce is a performer, writer, director and filmmaker. She was raised in Costa Rica and has been living in the United States for the past 11 years. She worked with the Bread and Puppet Theater and co-directed and performed with the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) during the group's first five years. 

 

For the Festival Latino in Los Angeles, she directed and co-authored El Otro Lado/The Other Side. For the 1990 Los Angeles Festival, she co-directed and performed with the LAPD in Jupiter 35. As an artist-in-residence at the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Arce conceived, directed and performed with the housekeeping staff of the Center in !Maid, Please Make Up Room/Please Do Not Disturb!. Her first full-length solo performance work, I Have So Many Stitches That Sometimes I Dream That I'm Sick, premiered at Highways in Santa Monica in 1993 and was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 1994. In 1993, Arce received a J. Paul Getty Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship.

 

More recent information about Elia can be found on her website. 

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