Elena Lach

Two people sit facing each other on a sofa in a room lit with pink and purple light. They look at one another, appearing engaged in conversation. One person wears a blue zip-up tracksuit and holds a small light-coloured box in their hands. The other person wears a patterned jacket and jeans and leans slightly forward. Plants and a cup are visible in the background, creating an intimate, relaxed and domestic atmosphere.

Elena Lach (they/she) lives in Vienna and works as a performer, personal assistant and director’s assistant. They research the queer use of public spaces under the name of SPACE HOLDER, helping neurodivergent people to access queer parties, so far at flucc and 4lthangrund. As part of the Careful Collisions Collective, Elena Lach designs queer movement spaces for contact improvisation. They love questions and non-verbal communication and practice social idiosyncrasy as a survival strategy and a way to conduct relationships. In the autumn of 2025, Elena Lach, together with Ema Bencikova, hosted a workshop entitled Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab for autistic and neuroqueer persons as part of accessible brut.

Works at brut:

Closing Cocktail – A final festival get together (with Ema Bencikova, imagetanz 2026)
BUZZING around – for neurodivergent, blind and visually impaired audiences (Get together, with Ema Bencikova, imagetanz 2026)
Touch Tour on BUZZ by tanz.sucht.theater (with Christiane Hapt and tanz.sucht.theater, imagetanz 2026)
Taking the time (Get together, with Ema Bencikova und LIFT Tanzkollektiv, imagetanz 2026)
How to festival? – A pre-festival get together (with Ema Bencikova, imagetanz 2026)
Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab for autistic and neuroqueer attendants (Workshop with Ema Bencikova, 2025)