Liis Vares (EST) is a choreographer playing in the midfield of performing and fine arts. Her practice focuses on spatial relations, and the shifting conditions of presence in physical, online, and extended reality (XR) environments. What does it mean to be in a body? How to awaken and include audiences’ imagination and bodily sensation?

Her recent collaborations with Taavet Jansen and XR developer Norbert Pape include semantical interactive mixed-reality works HELD IN HUMAN II: Rose in Your Brain (2024) and STILL MOVING (2025).

Liis teaches improvisation, inclusive dance and theatre practice, and performance art at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy and in the Estonian Academy of Arts.