Upcoming performances and events
26 November 2025, 18.00-19.30 | Centre of the Cell, Queen Mary University of London
Many people enjoy eating mushrooms, the fruits of filamentous fungi, as they are packed with nutrients. But if we look underground, it gets more interesting. Filamentous fungi can act as ‘highways’. Much like a road, the hyphae (long structures in mushrooms) can act as physical highways for transporting other microorganisms. Fungi also interact with plant roots, but it’s not always an easy relationship. Join us as Dr Eleonora tells us all about her research into this area, and shows us surprising other ways science can be communicated.
Past Events
9 October 2025, 18.00-21.30 | Living with the planet, The British Academy
After a prize-winning performance dancing her own PhD on plant-pathogen interactions, biology ballerina Dr Eleonora Moratto joins forces with the Chelsea Ballet Group and researchers from Imperial College London to turn climate science research into beautiful choreographies.
15th June 2025, 15.00-16.00 | Great Exhibition Road Festival, V&A
After a prize-winning performance dancing her own PhD on plant-pathogen interactions, Elenora joins forces with the Chelsea Ballet Group to take to the stage at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. Together, in a unique fusion of movement and science, they’ll turn short talks from natural world scientists into breathtaking ballet performance expressing the urgent story of humanity’s impact on our planet.
12th March 2025, 6.30 | The Francis Crick Institute
Explore the interplay between our immune system, vaccines and viruses, and see it brought to life through discussion and dance. Free event. Eleonora will be part of the panel discussion on collaborating across the art-science divide.
6th February 2025, 6.00 | Imperial College London
The Biology Ballerina, Dr Eleonora Moratto, presents her research through ballet. Enjoy an on pointe STEAM performance while learning about one way we can grow our food pathogen-free.
7th September 2024, 7.30 | The Swiss Church London
This year’s ballet, Etude à la Ballet Russe Moderne, is the story of a frustrated ballet teacher and a hopeless student. It is a comic and heartfelt dance between love and loss, rivalry, disguise and transformation.
13th June 2024, 16.00-16.45 | Great Exhibition Road Festival, Institute François
The Biology Ballerina, Dr Eleonora Moratto, presents her research through ballet. Enjoy an on pointe STEAM performance while learning about one way we can grow our food pathogen-free.
20th September 2023,10.00-18.00 | Imperial College London
Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Eleonora will be presenting her PhD research
6th September 2023, 8.00 pm | The Swiss Church London
Travel through Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn, with music by Franz Schubert, Paso & Garcia Alvarez and Antonio Vivaldi at the Swiss Church in London’s 2023 Ballet Gala.