Ana Pi is a choreographer and « imagery » artist.

Born, raised and educated in Brazil, she currently works from France and navigates the world through the regenerative layers and radical imagination of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. Ana Pi amplifies a line of research into ancestral dances and their actual peripheral forms, while she works as an « extemporary » dancer, pedagogue, creator of spaces and writer. Her practices are woven through the act of traveling.

The artist studies materially the gestures and movements transmitted by traditions and transmuted through distinct landscapes and borders, software programs and politics, living bodies and archives, while delicately learning the philosophies and potential for « futurity » of these complex choreographies. Simultaneously, Ana Pi activates and generates new systems of permanence in her transdisciplinary work, situating itself precisely between the notions of transit, displacement, belonging, superposition, memory, colors and ordinary gestures.

Her choreographies and performances, sculptural installations, films, educational activities and research have been programmed at institutions such as the 35th São Paulo Biennial – Choreographies of the Impossible, the Cisneros Institute with MoMA New York, Performa Biennial, AMANT Brooklyn, 15th Dakar Biennial, Center Pompidou Paris and Metz, Museo Reina Sofia, Dancing Museums, Assemblée des Mutants, Afro-Atlantic Histories Exhibition, International Film Festival Rotterdam, RAW Material Company, A-CDCN France, P. A.R.T.S, Festival d’Automne, Impulstanz, Alkantara, Holland Festival, VIDEOBRASIL, Fondation Cartier, Puerto de Ideas, INHOTIM, MASP, The Place London, BARD College, to mention just a few.

Since 2010, she has been cultivating and sharing the practice CORPO FIRME; peripheral dances — sacred gestures. Since 2020, her realizations and collaborations have been produced by NA MATA LAB. In 2025, Ana Pi premieres ATOMIC JOY, a spectacle for 8 dancers, at the Festival Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and also at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Her sculptural and film installations are also part of the major exhibitions NOSSA VIDA BANTU at the Museu de Arte do Rio — Rio de Janeiro and O Poder das Minhas Mãos at SESC Pompéia — São Paulo, Brazil. This same year, she premiered, in collaboration with Julien Creuzet, the transdisciplinary show « Quatuor et Quantum — larmes marées de lune » at HKW Berlin.

In 2026, her repertoire will be presented at the Antigel Festival in Switzerland, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, Charleroi Danses in Belgium, and Artium Museoa in Pays Basque, among others.