Marília Coelho is a dance artist, choreographer, and director based in the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. 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. Marília is also 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 productions 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 Conservatory of Music and Dance in London/UK (2010), a degree in Dance from UNICAMP/SP (2004), as well as several artistic residencies and performances in partnership with leading choreographers and directors of dance and the performing arts.
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MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism gave me this multicultural connection, putting me in close contact with artists from various parts of the world who broadened my view of the world and art. This whole experience has provided me with the foundations for what I have been doing, which, until then, I didn't have many references for. This has been so important for me to value and understand the importance of my work in my local context. It gives me the strength to continue persisting in the poetry and power of collective dance
Marília Coelho