AnaVitória (1969) is a Brazilian and Portuguese choreographer with a postdoctoral degree in Performing Arts (Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon—Portugal) and a PhD in Arts—Body Performances from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO/Brazil).
AnaVitória is an award-winning artist and has served as an artistic director since 1995. She is also a performer and visual artist who has created numerous installations and dance videos focused on bodily poetics, self-performance, and autobiographical memories.
Her repertoire includes more than 31 choreographic works for her own company and national and international companies. Since 2018, she has lived between Portugal and Brazil, where she develops her artistic and pedagogical work on self-performative poetics.
Assistant Coordinator of the Professional Master’s Program in Contemporary Dance at Angel Vianna College (FAV/Brazil). Researcher affiliated with Inet-MD (FMH-UL-Portugal) and NEPAA (Center for Afro-Indigenous Performance Studies - Brazil). She has published three books on dance, the most recent of which, released in 2022, is titled Dance, Memory, and Autobiographical Creation. Published by Editora 7 Letras, Brazil.
