Constanza Macras welcomes us on a beautiful summer day in her Kreuzberg apartment in Berlin. Outside, on the balcony, her turtle is sunbathing. As is only natural for Macras, it can roam freely throughout the entire apartment. Macras herself sits, no, rests calmly on a spacious sofa. A similar photo of her, dressed in a kind of caftan, appeared in Vogue last year. Not that Vogue constantly devotes major profiles to contemporary female choreographers. But since Macras began choreographing for the films of Yorgos Lanthimos, first in 2018 for The Favourite and then in 2023 for Poor Things—and when Emma Stone won an Oscar for her role in Poor Things: Yes, ever since, Macras has been something like “our woman” in Hollywood.
Organizing Chaos on Stage
In 1997, when the then 27-year-old and still ...
