Mariana Pimentel (Fortaleza, 1983) is a dance artist, producer and cultural manager. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium and graduated at Lisbon Dance School. She holds a Master degree in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her research interests focus on the body's presence in contemporary dance and the political relations between body, space, identities and collectivity. She is a member of the Rio de Janeiro AND Lab Cluster and of AND Collective, and collaborates in AND Lab's School of Reparar. Her work was presented in festivals, encounters and performative art schools, in different countries, mainly in South America and Europe.