Márcia Lança works in territories where the boundaries between fiction and reality are subtle and diffuse. Her interest in the poetic materiality of concrete actions and tasks lies at the core of her creative processes. She is passionate about emergent collective compositions, thought as action, and situated forms of construction. In 2008, she founded VAGAR, of which she is the artistic director.

As a creator, her notable works include Quase Nada é um Plano (2025), Dentro da Cabeça (2025), Corpo de Água (2025), CAVALA (2023), Outro lado é um dia (2021) and its derivative É Só Um Dia (2022), Dentro do Coração (2019), NOME (2017), Por esse Mundo Fora (2016), Evidências Suficientes para a Não Coerência do Mundo (2014), Happiness and Misery (2014), 9 Possible Portraits (2014), O Desejo Ignorante (2011), Trompe le Monde (2011), Mecânica 1 and Mecânica (2011), and Morning Sun (2009). In 2006, she received first prize in the JAJ-CCB Programme with the solo Dos joelhos para baixo.

Since 2003, she has collaborated with artist João Fiadeiro in the research and development of Real Time Composition. Since 2008, she has trained in Lotus Flower Kung Fu with Guilherme Luz. She has also collaborated with Cláudia Dias, Olga Mesa, Ana Gil and Nuno Leão, Marta Dell’Angelo, Jørgen Knudsen, Paula Diogo, Jannine Rivel, Alex Cassal, João Caldas, Thomas Forneau, among others.

She holds a degree in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL. She was also curator of PACAP 5 – Fórum Dança alongside João Fiadeiro, Daniel Pizamiglio, and Carolina Campos.