Márcia Lança is a Portuguese artist based in Lisbon. She is an anthropology graduate from FCSH-UNL. In 2008, she founded the cultural association Vagar, of whose artistic direction she's in charge. She works on the border between reality and fiction, and she shifts among various artistic languages. As a creator, she highlights the following pieces: Outro lado é um dia (2021), É só um dia (2022) with Carolina Campos, Dentro do coração (2019), NOME (2017) with Carolina Campos, Por esse mundo fora (2016) with Nuno Lucas, Evidências Suficientes para a Não Coerência do Mundo (2014), Happiness and Misery (2014), 9 Possible Portraits (2014) with Ana Rita Teodoro, O Desejo Ignorante (2011) with Aniol Busquets and Tiago Hespanha, Trompe le Monde (2011) with Nuno Lucas, and Morning Sun, Mecânica 1 and Mecânica 2 (2009-11) with João Calixto. In 2006, she was awarded first prize as part of the Jovens Artistas Jovens program for her solo Dos joelhos para baixo.
Since 2003, she has collaborated with João Fiadeiro on research and the development of real time composition. She has also collaborated with Cláudia Dias, Olga Mesa, Ana Gil e Nuno Leão, Marta Dell’Angelo, Jørgen Knudsen, Alex Cassal, and Thomas Fourneau, among others.
She has developed artistic research workshops for children at Gymnasium — casaBranca, in Lagos (2019-2022), and at Associação Ser Pessoa (2001-05), among other occasional classes on imaginary anatomy, collective bodies, and collaborative processes. In 2012, she participated in the European projects TryAngle Marseille — Performing Arts Research Laboratories and, at the invitation of Espaço Alkantara, Global City — Local City, the latter organized by the Theatre / Festivals in Transition (FIT) network. Im 2012, she co-curated the CELEBRAÇÃO Festival at Culturgest. Additionally, she was the cocurator of PACAP 5 — Forum Dança with Carolina Campos, Daniel Pizamiglio, and João Fiadeiro.
