ABOUT...
Lola Gonzalez is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and somatic practitioner whose work explores the body as a space of memory, expression, and transformation. Rooted in dance and movement, her practice integrates artistic creation, psychosomatic approaches, and holistic care.
Through performances, workshops, and participatory projects, she creates sensory and embodied experiences that invite individuals and communities to reconnect with their physical, emotional, and relational landscapes. Her work engages with themes of body memory, resilience, vulnerability, and collective healing within contemporary social contexts.
Lola graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2023 and has trained in psychosomatic and transgenerational therapy. Since then, she has developed her practice Heal in (e)motion, through which she facilitates individual and group sessions, artistic interventions, and movement-based programs addressing emotional well-being, chronic pain, and embodied awareness.
Alongside her work in dance and somatic therapy, she engages in hands-on artistic practices such as tattooing, drawing, and visual arts, deepening her sensitivity to the body as a site of ritual, identity, and storytelling.
She believes that the body carries personal and collective histories, and that movement can become a powerful language for listening to these stories, transforming them, and cultivating resilience. Her work seeks to bridge art, care, and social engagement, offering spaces where creativity supports healing and self-understanding.
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Mélanzé – Youth Support & Violence Prevention
Movement, Care, and Social Justice
How can movement become a language for resistance, protection, and collective healing?
Mélanzé is a cultural and social project addressing violence against young people in La Réunion through dance, somatic practices, and artistic creation. Developed in collaboration with local artists and educators and funded by DRAJES, the project combines school workshops, collective performances, and community actions.
Through embodied dialogue and creative expression, Mélanzé offers young participants tools to express their experiences, rebuild self-confidence, and strengthen solidarity. The project positions the body as a political and emotional space, where personal stories intersect with broader issues of inequality, power, and social justice.
See more2025-Ongoing
La Réunion, France
Art & Health – Primary Care Project (ARS)
How can artistic and somatic practices transform our experience of care and illness?
This project was developed through an open call and funded by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) in La Réunion. In collaboration with choreographer Eric Languet (Danse en l’Air, Integrative Dance), Lola co-designed and facilitated movement-based workshops for patients in primary healthcare settings.
By integrating dance, body awareness, and creative exploration into medical environments, the project explores alternative ways of supporting patients’ physical and emotional resilience. It questions dominant models of care and invites participants to reclaim agency over their bodies, stories, and healing processes.
See more2025-Ongoing
La Réunion, France
Heal in (e)motion
How can movement, storytelling, and embodied awareness become tools for healing and self-understanding?
Heal in (e)motion is an artistic and somatic practice that combines dance, psychosomatic approaches, and creative expression to support emotional and physical well-being. Through individual sessions, group workshops, and hybrid formats, Lola creates spaces where participants reconnect with their bodies, listen to their sensations, and explore their personal narratives.
Rooted in lived experience and interdisciplinary research, this project invites people to shift their relationship to pain, vulnerability, and resilience — transforming the body from a perceived enemy into a source of knowledge, strength, and creativity.
See more2023-Ongoing
Online,
La Réunion, France
©RalphDiepstraten
The Interactive Digital Oracle
How can ancient body knowledge and technology meet to provide better understanding on our body ailments?
The Interactive Digital Oracle is rooted in research on ancient knowledge of the body and holistic practices to provide a better understanding of our bodily ailments in today's modern, technological yet disconnected society.
See more2023
Design Academy
Eindhoven
©RonaldSmitsHealing (e)motion - Archive
How to facilitate body movement expression to release emotional blockages?
In opposition with the intellectual memory, the body memory is the part of ourselves that we can’t really influence, it is beyond our control, it is the one of our past and forgotten feelings. In Chinese medicine but also in theories from Sigmond Freud, Carl Jung or Salomon Sellam, it is told that while our brain can’t remember what happened when we were three years old, our body never forgets and saves every moment, an infinite sensory and bodily impressions which are not conscious but still act on us.
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Design Academy
Eindhoven
A dance out of randomness
The body is the message, embodied presence in cinema.
Workshop by Karel Tuytchaever with Cinedans Fest’23.
Digital physicality - audio visual piece.
See more2023
EYE filmmuseum Amsterdam
Five Commands
Artist manifesto highlighting the points that drive her practice.
See more2022
Design Academy
Eindhoven
The modular reflexology based carpet
How can feet reflexology be a tool to help awaken body memories through body movements?
Elaboration of a modular carpet based on 15 chinese pressure points as a therapeutic/medical tool for body movement exploration and comprehension.
See more2022
Design Academy Eindhoven/
Milan Design Week
Body Memory
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all humans.
Kitchen of lust, bedrooms of grief, bathrooms of empathy. Sometimes people they come with keys and sometimes, they come with hammers.
These rooms are hidden in the unconscious and filled with memories.
-Knock knock!
Those locked rooms are your body’s afflictions, they reflect your past, your forgotten feelings.
-Knock Knock!
Can’t you hear it? It’s talking to you.
Sit with yourself and feel all these depths.
I am a body, you are too.
The bigger the body, the more locked rooms there are.
If you don’t make time for your wellness, you will have to make time for your illness.
It is not a restriction, it is a key for freedom.
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all bodies, bodies that haven’t yet realised: they are the key.
Text adapted by me from Warsan Shire and Joyce Sunada.
Performed narration.
2021
Design Academy
Eindhoven
Harvest of Kinetic Memory
BRINGING BODY MEMORY AWARENESS TO A BULDING COMMUNITY
How do our bodies will remember this collective experience?
How can this memory help to build body knowledge for the future?
See more2021
Design Academy Eindhoven
The Village People
What does relying on nature really mean?
When we live in a society with so much abundance, do we truly know what we need to survive? How can we look our surroundings to learn more about where things come from, or how we might apply them in our own lives? More importantly, how can we live more harmoniously with nature by taking only what we need? What is enough?
Read more2021
Design Academy Eindhoven
Free Restriction
Tell me what you do and I will tell you who you are.
Garment and performative piece.
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2020
Ile de la Reunion