Ana Pi is a choreographer and imagery artist, born and educated in Brazil. She has been based in France and travels the World through the regenerative layers and radical imagination of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. Since 2010, she has developed and shared the practice CORPO FIRME; peripheral dances — sacred gestures. NA MATA LAB produces and distributes her works and collaborations. Her shows and performances, sculptural installations, films, pedagogical actions, and research have been presented in various 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 expands a line of research around ancestral dances and their actual peripheral forms. In parallel, she works as an "extemporary" dancer, pedagogue, space-maker, and writer; her practices are interwoven and restore the act of traveling. She materially studies the thoughts and gestures transmitted by traditions and transformed through software and politics, cosmologies and architectures, landscapes and borders, living bodies and archives, while attentively learning the philosophies and potential "futurity" of these complex choreographies and movements. Simultaneously, Ana Pi generates and activates new systems of permanence. Her transdisciplinary body of work is situated precisely between notions of transit, belonging, superposition, memory, colors, and ordinary gestures.

In 2025, Ana Pi creates the piece ATOMIC JOY, for 8 dancers, accompanied by an original musical composition by CHASSOL. She also creates and co-directs 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 and Malodorous.