I believe in art as a way of transformation, sensing the world in changing light. Dance is a form of listening — where movement speaks, and the body remembers. Technique serves expression, emotion unites us all.

I am guided by sensibility, wonder, honesty. To love is to share, to create is to respond. Through art, we move in freedom.

creations

  • Uma - cover colage

    Uma

    beginning of the creation process
    3 women meet in 1, a performance of invocation.

  • Maria Ana Diogo performing her solo piece LIBERTAÇÃO – LIBERATION (2025) about purpose, rebirth and redemption

    LIBERTAÇÃO – LIBERATION

    Solo creation
    A piece about purpose, rebirth, and redemption. Premiered at the Young Choreographers Showcase 2025.

  • Maria Ana Diogo performing her piece (sinestesia) choreographed for 7 dancers

    (sinestesia)

    Choreography for a group of 7
    A group piece fusing poetry, scenographic elements, and multi-sensory research.

performances & collabs

  • Maria Ana Diogo performing "if i may ask"

    if i may ask

    100 days - 100 questions
    One question a day: the possibility of questioning as a space for dignity and humanity

  • Maria Ana Diogo performing re)main

    re)main

    Hands that (trans)form a body
    Research on the language of hands — universal yet undefined, familiar yet unfocused

  • Maria Ana Diogo dancer and performer

    in stillness

    Photograph collection
    A collaborative photographic study of stillness, disrobing and intimacy within a (moving) body

  • Maria Ana Diogo performing in the duet Wonderlust

    Wonderlust

    Duet/co-creation
    Collaborative work engaging with film projections from Tetro in a site-specific dialogue of movement and cinematic imagery.

improv

  • Maria Ana Diogo improvisation dance on studio

    IMPRO I

    soundscape

    'Still I Rise' poem ending

    Dropped Soul (Murcof)

    Dear, Dolores (Dominique Charpentier) beginning

  • Maria Ana Diogo improvisation dance for the piece Uma

    UMA

    improvisation study for a solo


    soundscape

    Horse (Keeley Forsyth)

  • Maria Ana Diogo improvisation dance on a dance studio with light and mirrors

    IMPRO III

    soundscape

    Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise, FP 142: n.4 (Poulenc) ending

    2.3 Courante (Peter Gregson)