Marília Coelho - she/her
Marília Coelho is a dance artist, choreographer, and director based in the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently part of the curatorial team for the MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism at the London Contemporary Dance School in England.
Through dance, she seeks to articulate ancestral knowledge with a contemporary approach rooted in countercolonization. From this perspective, she researches choreographic ecologies, participatory and immersive dances. She has been presenting her work throughout Brazil, performing at important venues as well as squares, streets, favelas, indigenous villages, forests, and quilombola communities. She has also performed in Turkey, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Chile, India, and Peru.
Her main artistic works: Trama Terra (2025), Deslocaloca (2022), Plantasia (2021), Viragem (2020), Extática (2020), Hiperlink/Viragem (LLL>>>>> (2019), Manifesto dos Seres (2018), Lapso (2014), Organóides (2012), Imaterial (2011) and Gotas (2010).
Marília is also a curator and director of the Festival
Mirante da Dança, a member of the
MAYA-LiLA dance nucleus and the cultural collective space
Mirante das Artes, located in Botucatu, São Paulo. This independent venue welcomes and promotes the production of performing arts in the region, where, in this context, Marília crosses her artistic approaches in co-creative facilitations with groups of diverse people.
Marília completed the MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism at London Contemporary Dance School (2025), and was an inaugural recipient of the Global South Scholarship. She received grants in Brazil, and her training also includes the intensive Relatedness in Motion course at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London/UK (2010), a degree in Dance from UNICAMP/SP (2005), as well as several artistic residencies and performances in partnership with leading choreographers and directors of dance and the performing arts all around the world.