Márcia Lança is Portuguese and lives in Lisbon. In 2008, she founded VAGAR, of which she is the artistic director. She operates in territories where the boundaries between the fictional and the real are tenuous and blurred. Her interest in the poetic materiality of concrete actions and tasks lies at the heart of her creative processes. She is passionate about emerging collective compositions, about thought as action, and about situated constructions. Her notable works as a creator include Quase Nada é um Plano (2024), Dentro da Cabeça (2024), CAVALA (2023), Outro lado é um dia (2021) e a derivação É Só Um Dia (2022), Dentro do Coração (2019), NOME (2017), Por esse Mundo Fora (2016), Evidências Suficientes para a Não Coerência do Mundo (2014), Happiness and Misery (2014), 9 Possible Portraits (2014), O Desejo Ignorante (2011), Trompe le Monde (2011), Mecânica 1 e Mecânica 2 (2011) and Morning Sun (2009). In 2006, he received first prize in the JAJ-CCB Programme for the solo piece Dos joelhos para baixo. She has been collaborating with the artist João Fiadeiro on the research and development of Real Time Composition since 2003. Since 2008, she has been practising Lotus Flower Kung Fu with Guilherme Luz. She has also collaborated with Cláudia Dias, Olga Mesa, Ana Gil and Nuno Leão, Marta Dell’Angelo, Jørgen Knudsen, Paula Diogo, Jannine Rivel, Alex Cassal, and Thomas Forneau, amongst others. She holds a degree in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL. She has actively developed artistic research workshops with children at Gymnasium|Casa Branca — Lagos (2019–2022) and with the SerPessoa Association (2001–05), amongst other one-off classes on imagined anatomy, collective bodies and collaborative processes. She curated PACAP 5 — Forum Dança with Carolina Campos, Daniel Pizamiglio and João Fiadeiro.
Photo (c) Daniel Pizamiglio
