Maria (Lisbon 1988, living in Brussels) studied at the National Conservatory of Lisbon followed by the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios - PARTS (2006-2010), with a scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her trajectory as a performer has been crafted through the works of Willi Dorner, Daniel Linehan, Georgia Vardarou, Radouan Mriziga, Marco Torrice, Anneleen Keppens, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Maud le Pladec, Benjamin Vandewalle, Trajal Harrell, amongst others. Between 2010/2012, she co-writes the duo Light as a Feather, Green as an Apple with the dancer/choreographer Veli Lehtoaara. Since 2019 she develops an artistic research project where she investigates plasticity and interconnectivity in moment. She works as outside eye for Alexander Vantournhout and as choreography assistant for Maud le Pladec in the production Borderline directed by Guy Cassiers. Parallel to dance, Maria works with costumes and she currently attending the Feldenkrais Method training program in Brussels. She is a guest teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp since 2016.
Function: Artistic practice - coaching student work