Ana Pi is a choreographer and “imagery artist,” born and educated in Brazil, who works from France and navigates the world through the regenerative layers and radical imagination of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. Since 2010, she has cultivated and shared the practice “CORPO FIRME; peripheral dances—sacred gestures”. NA MATA LAB produces and distributes her works and collaborations. Her spectacles, performances, sculptural installations, films, educational initiatives, and research projects have been presented in numerous international art institutions and biennials. Over the course of a decade, her performative lecture dedicated to street dances of the world has been presented more than 400 times on stages across Europe, Africa, and South America.

She deepens a line of research around ancestral dances and their actual peripheral forms. At the same time, she works as an “extemporary” dancer, educator, creator of spaces, and writer, her practices intertwining and restoring the act of travel. She materially studies the thoughts and gestures transmitted through traditions, which have transmuted while traversing software and politics, cosmologies and architectures, landscapes and borders, living bodies and archives, all while attentively learning the philosophies and potential “futurity” of these complex choreographies and displacements. Simultaneously, Ana Pi generates and activates new systems of permanence. Her transdisciplinary corpus of work situates itself precisely at the intersection of transit, belonging, superposition, memory, colors, and ordinary gestures.

In 2025, Ana Pi created the piece “ATOMIC JOY” for eight dancers, with an original musical composition by CHASSOL. She also created and co-directed, with Julien Creuzet, the transdisciplinary  performance “Quatuor et Quantum — larmes marées de lune” at HKW Berlin, for the BWA KAYIMAN festival.

She is currently preparing the diptych work “James et Malodorous”.