03.04.25, 19:00, Ana Pi

Choreographer and imagery artist, born, raised and nourished in Brazil, navigating the World through movement making. 

The artist amplifies a research of Afro-Diasporic and Urban dances, works as extemporary dancer and pedagogue, her practices are woven with the act of traveling. Ana Pi constantly investigates gestures that have been passed down through traditions and mutated as they traversed different landscapes and bodies.

Her transdisciplinary works are particularly situated between the notions of transit, displacement, belonging, superposition, memory, colors and ordinary gestures. Her dances, films and research have been programmed in institutional spaces such as Cisneros Institute with MoMA, Raw Material Company, Centre Pompidou, Histórias Afro-Atlânticas Exhibition, Festival d’Automne Paris, among many others.

The Divine Cypher, RAW ON, Fumaça, Meditation on Beauty, èscultura, RACE, O BΔNQUETE, COROA, NoirBLUE, DRW2 et Le Tour du Monde des Danses Urbaines en 10 villes, are her works that articulate choreography, discourse and installation. 

Audiovisual productions are highlighted by NoirBLUE – les déplacements d’une danse (2018 – 27′), filmed in 9 countries of the African Continent, is her first documentary, internationally awarded, and the essays Another Anagram of Ideas (2022) and VÓS (2011). 

Since 2010, she has been developing and sharing the practice named STEADY BODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures, and in 2020, she creates the structure NA MATA LAB for artistic production and collaboration.

In 2023, commissioned by the 35th São Paulo Biennial - Choreographies of the Impossible, she exhibited her first kinetic installation ANTENA IA MBAMBE – Mimenekenu Ê Lá Tempo!, created in collaboration with Taata Kwa Nkisi Mutá Imê, a supreme priest of the Brazilian Candomblé.  In this project, materials such as ceramics, baobab seeds, a study of the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire photographic archive in Dakar, Senegal, a metal structure, and an animated movie are aligned in the same dance and dialogue with the various dimensions of “Tempo.” Nkisi divinity and vital principle of the “Candomblé” heritage in Brazil unveils all the potential of moving and planting other images.

She signed the choreography of ALGORITHM OCEAN TRUE BLOOD MOVES, the large-scale performance directed by the visual artist and poet Julien Creuzet. Premiered in New York City with Performa Biennial, presented as well at the Nationale Opera Ballet Amsterdam with Hartwig Art Foundation, and in Senegal within Dakar Biennial 2025 special program, completing a significant full-circle journey that symbolically reverses the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade through a new triangulation of life and vitality..

Ana Pi is now working on her next creation, ATOMIC JOY, for 8 dancers to be premiered in 2025, both in Brazil and France.