Biography
A dancer, choreographer and writer, Diana Niepce, born in 1985 in Portugal, graduated from the ESD dance school in Lisbon and from the Erasmus programme at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. While studying performing-arts management and production, she took hatha-yoga classes and did a master’s degree in art and communication at Lisbon University. She has created six pieces – Raw a Nude, 12 979 Days, Duet, T4, Anda, Diana and The Other Side of the Dance (2022) – and collaborated as a performer with many international companies and artists including Rosas, Willi Dorner, La Fura del Baus, Mariana Tengner Barros, Rafael Alvarez, Jérôme Bel, Adam Benjamin, Diana de Sousa and Justyna Wielgus. As a writer, she has published an article in the book Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker à Lisbonne (éditions Egeac / INCM); the children’s short story Bayadére (éd. CNB), the poem 2014 in Flanzine magazine, the article Experimentar o corpo in performing-arts journal Coreia, the book Anda, Diana (éd. Sistema Solar) and the short story Cassé et puant, ce sont les cailloux on the Chemin de la Mémoire du Couvent.