The Italian – Brazilian artist-anthropologist-activist Livia Marques works since many years on Theory about Movement Research and Dance, passing through issues such as Body Anthropology, Politics of international establishments of making art nowadays and on the sources of Creation and Composition on Stage, as an Expanded Practice in different formats, from pieces for theatres to site-specific, to moving images, to review and books.

Her focus in art research is strongly influenced by the contemporary debate on Philosophy, specially on Ethics and she goes deep in Art development with anthropological methodologies, sound research and on body presence and movement. For her, Body is a life moving tool, with plasticity, aesthetics and physic–biological opportunities.

Since many years she has been working in interdisciplinary art fields, bringing and sharing her skills for her authorial projects and of other multidisciplinary artists.

Since many years she has been collaborating with European and South American institutions and festivals in the constant trying-out of presenting and discuss a Practice and also a Dialogue and a Re-Thinking in terms of Anthropology, Philosophy, Politics and more in general towards a Choreography, understood as an environment of semiotics and semantics signs in Dancing Movement.

She feeds her artistic research with Sound Practices like music instruments, sound scape listening and singing in two choirs. She practices a vivid and deep research on the Ethnic–Prehistoric connections of the Skeleton Study and Embryonal Anatomy.

Livia Marques grew up between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Florence, Italy. After studying music and dance throughout her childhood, she got a contemporary dance professional diploma at CIMD – Centro Internazionale Movimento e Danza – in Milan, in collaboration with RIDC – Rencontres Internationales de Danse Contemporaine – in Paris, and a bachelor in Ethnic – Anthropological Disciplines at the Università degli Studi di Siena.

From the fusion of these elements, she developed her artistic path focused on the body. She pushed forward her artistic research in Brazil, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands; where she was influenced by many masters and artists, in particular among others by the work of Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, Lisa Nelson, Katie Duck, Julyen Hamilton, David Zambrano, Jeremy Nelson, Angel Vianna and Pauline de Groot.

Since 2004 she has created site-specific performances: Check, Periferiche, VisiBiLe_the Darkness in the world of Lights, R*ESISTENTE, CUM+NECTARE, in addition to the installation FilRouge and the videodance Prismatic#0, winner project at Mediamix Festival and MediaARC Festival 2012. After creating G..(H)ate a dance piece about the G8 2001 for six dancers on stage, she co-created Dancing Amsterdam videodance 2013 and El horizonte no se mueve videodance 2014 in Barcelona-Spain, while also being artistic assistant for choreography at Kampnagel, Hamburg-Germany.

Since 2012, she has been invited every year to the Schmiede artistic platform, Salzburg-Austria, where she creates videodance projects Prismatic#1 and Unnecessary, as well the participatory installation and performance UnderControl #backinthecagesystem?, and has since 2016 founded and co-directed the BodyHUB Lab. In 2016 Livia was invited to the Biennale Danza Venezia for “Levée des Conflits” by Boris Charmatz (dance college section); has collaborated with NYC director Cynthia Madansky for the artfilm “Viva, Agua” about Clarisse Linspector book Agua viva, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and still on international tour; and was invited to the Frascati Session 2016 to collaborate with Belgian artist Sarah Vanhee at Amsterdam’s Frascati Theater, The Netherlands . In 2017 and 2018 while co-working in many experimental projects of contemporary visual-art of other artists in The Netherlands, she produced again around Italy her works UnderControl and G..(H)ate with a new cast and team. In 2018 she created and launched in Amsterdam It’s all about experience, her intimate videodance production interlacing poetry, multi linguistics, original sound, architecture and movement. In 2019 she took part in the long making of the Official Parade of Samba at Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with the most ancient team of the city Estacio de Sa’, winning the official championship of Samba 2019. She has been working internationally on her dance research project for a book and a choreographic performance Definições Múltiplas, with the support of SpazioK, Prato and OT301, Amsterdam and the duet SIX, inspired from the Italo Calvino book American Lectures. Six Memos for the next Millennium.

Since 2020/2021 Livia has been studying for her Master in Antropology of Image and Performance at Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy where she won a scholarship at DSU Toscana-; and afterwards also an Overseas scholarship. Throughout the Overseas program Livia decided to connect with UFRJ – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Her Ethnographic project was accepted in two different UFRJ Study Centers: at MUSEU NACIONAL in the program of Social Anthropology and at ECO – Escola de Comunicaçao in the program of Performing Live Arts. She spent one year of Accademic exchange and 17 months of Ethnographic field for her research about Samba, Carnival, Dance and Social resistance.

At the moment she is finishing to write her experiences, observations and thesis of Master degree.

In 2023 she creates her newest project ABACAXI – invitation for a synesthetic ritual, premiered in September in Salzburg-Hallein, Austria.

Since 2015 she is also writing in Italy and The Netherlands as dance critic in English and Italian.

Her artistic practice originates in an international network of multi- and interdisciplinary collaborations and is strongly influenced by contemporary Philosophy, especially the issue of Ethics.

She also works internationally giving Labs, Lectures, creating Dialogues and showing up of her original artistic works.

She has been presenting her works in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.