Ana Pi

Ana Pi is a choreographer and imagery artist, born, raised and nourished in Brazil, working from France and navigating the World through the regenerative layers of Afro-Diasporic dance and radical imagination. The artist amplifies research of ancestral and peripheral dances, works as an extemporary dancer, pedagogue, space maker and writer, her practices are woven through the act of traveling. Ana Pi materially investigates movements and gestures that have been passed down through traditions and mutated as they traversed different landscapes, softwares and bodies, while carefully studying their philosophy and futurity. Her transdisciplinary works are particularly situated between the notions of transit, displacement, belonging, superposition, memory, colors and ordinary gestures.

Her stage shows, sculptural installations, films, pedagogical acts and research have been programmed in institutional spaces such as Cisneros Institute with MoMA, AMANT, 35th São Paulo Biennial – Choreographies of the Impossible, Centre Pompidou Paris and Metz, Museo Reina Sofia, Assemblée des Mutants, Histórias Afro-Atlânticas Exhibition, International Film Festival Rotterdam, RAW Material Company, Festival d’Automne Paris, A-CDCN, P.A.R.T.S, Festival Impulstanz, VIDEOBRASIL, Fondation Cartier, Puerto de Ideas, MASP, MAC Val, 15th Biennale de Dakar, among many more.

Since 2010, she has been cultivating and sharing the practice STEADY BODY; peripheral dances — sacred gestures, and in 2020, she created the structure NA MATA LAB for artistic production and collaboration. In 2025, Ana Pi directs and premieres ATOMIC JOY, a choreographic piece for 8 dancers.

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