Piny – Human being, intersectional feminist, anti-racist, environmentalist, activist. Artist, architect, performer, dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Born in Lisbon, of Portuguese and Angolan descent.

She completed her degree in Architecture at FAUTL in 2007, and a postgraduate degree in Scenography in 2009. In the same year, she completed the training programme “Scenography, Dance and Architecture” in Paris at the École Nationale d’Architecture and the CND. In 2012, she completed a degree in Dance in Lisbon.

Under her own name, she has created and performed choreographic works including: Periférico in collaboration with Vhils for the BoCA Biennial (2017); HIP. a pussy point of view (2019), .G Rito (2021) and ONYX (2024). In 2023, she began as artistic director and curator of the OU.kupa festival, focused on first creations by choreographers working in street and clubbing dances, as well as on archive collection and construction. She continues her studies in Hatha Yoga and Advaita Vedanta. Recently, she completed the courses “Immersion in African Philosophies in Dialogue with Contemporary Values” by Katiuscia Ribeiro and “Decolonising Curatorial and Artistic Practices” with Kathy Ann Tan.

She continues to study and develop alternative ways of understanding intersectionality in being and doing, through the study of astrology, tarot, yoga and non-Eurocentric philosophies.

Her dance journey began in 1999 with the study of Raqs Sharqi and Raqs Baladi, which she continued to develop through theoretical research and the practical construction of fusion vocabularies based on these forms. Since 2006, she has embarked on a journey of learning, research and teaching Afro-North American street and clubbing dances (Breakdance, Hip Hop, House, Vogue, Waacking). This learning took place in several European cities and in New York, in both informal and formal contexts. In 2006, she founded the female crew ButterflieSoulFlow, focused on dance, DJing and graffiti; in 2012, she founded the Orchidaceae collective; in 2019, the Vogue PT chapter; and since 2025, she has been a member of the House of Revlon.

Since 2012, she has focused on researching the fusion and intersection of these dance languages in order to create new vocabularies and to understand their political and social contexts. She has been teaching in Portugal since 2006 and internationally since 2014.

As a performer, she has collaborated with Kwenda Lima, Alice Joana Gonçalves, Filipa Francisco, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes, Ricardo Ambrózio, Tânia Carvalho, Raquel Castro, Boris Charmatz, Cristina Planas Leitão and Marco da Silva Ferreira.