Ana Pi

Choreographic  and imagery artist, researcher in urban dances, contemporary dancer and  pedagogue. Her practice is situated among notions of transit,  displacement, belonging, overlaping, memory, colors, and ordinary  gestures.

In 2018 she creates  COROA, the performance and installation for  the Galeria Vermelho – São Paulo, also presented in Lafayettes  Anticipations – Paris, at this same year she is awarded with the  “Revelation Prize” by the Cooperativa Paulista de Dança – São Paulo. In 2017 she creates NoirBLUE, a solo work for stage played in France, Portugal and Belgium, and also the Périphérie & Périphériques Project in collaboration with Lá da Favelinha – cultural center, where she is a partner for the dance.  In 2015 she creates DRW2 for the Instituto Inhotim and in 2014 she creates Le Tour du Monde des Danses Urbaines,  a project for the CDCN in France, with those interactive lectures she  have been performing in Brazil, in Europe and in Africa as well.   Besides those main projects she develops the practice CORPO FIRME; danças periféricas, gestos sagrados and collaborates with many artists in works of diverse natures and durations.

NoirBLUE – les déplacements d’une danse  (2018 – 27′) is her first documentary, awarded by FestCURTAS in Belo  Horizonte, Janela de Cinema in Recife, as winner of the brazilian  short-film competition in both festivals. Official selection for the  Fórum.Doc in Belo Horizonte, also for the Semana de Realizadores in  2018, then at Tiradentes Film Festival and International Film Festival  Rotterdam in 2019.

Brazil,  France, Turkey, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Switzerland,  Austria, Italy, Poland, Romania, Japan, Peru, United States, Martinique,  Reunion Island, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Angola, Equatorial  Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Mauritania are the countries where she has  been crossing her professional experience, through programs of artistic  residency, giving workshops on body, image, sacred gestures &  periphery, or within the programming of international festivals as  performer and tours of her work.

Source: Website of the artist