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Ana Pi Moving Image
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Choreographer and “imagery” artist, born, raised, and nourished in Brazil, working from France and navigating the world through the regenerative layers of the African Diaspora and its radical imagination. She deepens a line of research on ancestral dances and their actual peripheral forms, working as an “extemporary” dancer, pedagogue, space maker, and writer. Grounded in the material study of gestures and movements transmitted by traditions and transmuted through different landscapes, software programs, living bodies, and archives, her practice carefully examines their philosophical and futurity potential while activating and creating new systems of permanence.
Pi’s choreographic pieces, sculptural installations, films, pedagogical acts, and research were featured in the 35th São Paulo Biennial—Choreographies of the Impossible (2023), Tomie Ohtake for the exhibition Histórias Afro-Atlânticas (2018), Performa Biennial 2023, 15th Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art—The Wake, and have been also programmed in institutions such as the Cisneros Institute at MoMA, the Centre Pompidou (Paris and Metz), RAW Material Company, Amant (Brooklyn), Inhotim Museum, Museo Reina Sofia, Museu de arte de São Paulo, Bard College, P.A.R.T.S., Dancing Museums, Videobrasil, Festival d’Automne à Paris, ImPulsTanz, Alkantara, Holland Festival, to mention just a few. In 2025, Pi will premiere ATOMIC JOY, a choreographic piece for 8 dancers, at Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
Pi’s choreographic pieces, sculptural installations, films, pedagogical acts, and research were featured in the 35th São Paulo Biennial—Choreographies of the Impossible (2023), Tomie Ohtake for the exhibition Histórias Afro-Atlânticas (2018), Performa Biennial 2023, 15th Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art—The Wake, and have been also programmed in institutions such as the Cisneros Institute at MoMA, the Centre Pompidou (Paris and Metz), RAW Material Company, Amant (Brooklyn), Inhotim Museum, Museo Reina Sofia, Museu de arte de São Paulo, Bard College, P.A.R.T.S., Dancing Museums, Videobrasil, Festival d’Automne à Paris, ImPulsTanz, Alkantara, Holland Festival, to mention just a few. In 2025, Pi will premiere ATOMIC JOY, a choreographic piece for 8 dancers, at Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Pinacoteca de São Paulo.