Creations
and improv

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, and integrity is the ground I stand on — as a person, performer and creator. To love is to share, to create is to respond. Through art, we move in freedom.

©Lucas Sadalla

Creations

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • Uma - cover colage

    Uma

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

Improv

  • A woman in a black dance leotard standing alone in a dance studio with a reflective black floor and ballet barres on the wall behind her.

    IMPRO I

    soundscape

    'Still I Rise' poem ending

    Dropped Soul (Murcof)

    Dear, Dolores (Dominique Charpentier) beginning

  • Two women practicing acro yoga in a gymnasium with wooden paneled walls, a step ladder, and gym equipment in the background. One woman is standing and supporting the other woman who is upside down with her legs over her partner's shoulders.

    UMA

    impro study for a solo


    soundscape

    Horse (Keeley Forsyth)

  • A woman practicing ballet in a dance studio with angled skylights, wooden floors, and a large mirror reflecting her movement.

    IMPRO III

    soundscape

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

    2.3 Courante (Peter Gregson)

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Contact

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