Klára Ešnerová
Dancer / Choreographer / Teacher
Klára Ešnerová (Czech republic, 1993) is a freelance artist. For five years she has been based in Belgium (Antwerp). Currently, is Klara based in Czech. She is a co-founder of The backyard collective based in Antwerp and also choreographer of their last production called Xposure. At the moment she is working as a performer, choreographer and helping with the prodiction of Manus Art collective in Prague. Touring as a performer with a project called "The Urge" created by Ceren Oran&Moving borders in Czech republic. In the newest project of MANUS Art col. working as a performer is called Tepy Čar with premiere 17.9.2024 in JATKA78, Prague.
Klára graduated from the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague. She then went to study in multiple schools around the world like the Escola Superior de Dance in Lisboa, BCDA Hungary and the Acadamy of Performing Arts in Prague. Eventually she graduated in 2018 at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. She is working now as a freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer. She worked as a performer for choreographers as Ceren Oran,Saju Hari, Micha Purucker, Lenka Flory, Tuur Marinus and more. During studies she performed in pieces of Jos Baker, Anton Lachky, Agostina D¨'alessandro.
Klára is an experimental artist and creator collaborating on projects with artists from a wide range of disciplines (audiovisual arts, musicians, actors). Her artistic styles draws upon different styles of dance such as contemporary dance and street dance styles. In her artistic works you can find combination of her various dance background as well as combination of her music, which is vissible in her last solo choreographies are "En-trance" and "Por vento".