“I like the pictures of you in the snow – black and white a good place for body-work.” 

Antony Gormley, replying to a letter I had sent him with the first studies for the solo ‘7pm/Rumour’.

(PT) Maria Ramos vive e desenvolve o seu trabalho coreográfico em Lisboa desde 2009. O projecto coreográfico em curso, “Um Certo Grau de Imobilidade”, trata-se de um ciclo de trabalhos do qual fazem parte as três peças ‘7pm/Rumour’, ‘Nerves Like Nylon’ e ‘Something Still Uncaptured’. Durante o processo criativo de ‘7pm/Rumour’, Maria consultou o escultor Antony Gormley, com quem teve a oportunidade de trocar correspondência relativa a noções sobre Corpo e Espaço no contexto de Escultura e Dança. Foi o seu interesse na complexa relação entre dança e escultura que desencadeou este ciclo de trabalho. Este projecto foi financiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e DGArtes. Maria fez a sua formação formal no Instituto das Artes de Arnhem, no departamento de dança contemporânea European Dance Development Centre  (EDDC, 1996-2000), e fez o mestrado em Coreografia ArtEZ Master of Choreography (Moc, 2006-2008), no ArtEZ Institute of the Arts,  na Holanda.

(ENG) Maria Ramos is a dance artist based in Lisbon. She is engaged with the ongoing choreographic project “A Certain Degree of Immobility” a cycle of works featuring the three pieces ‘7pm/Rumour’, ‘Nerves Like Nylon’ and ‘Something Still Uncaptured’. During the creative process of ‘7pm/Rumour’ Maria consulted sculptor Antony Gormley with whom she had the opportunity to exchange correspondence concerning notions of Body and Space in the context of Sculpture and Dance. It is her interest in the complex relationship between Dance and Sculpture that triggered this cycle of work. This project was financed by Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts. Maria graduated from the Institute of the Arts of Arnhem (HKA-EDDC, Dance Department) and did her Masters degree in Choreography at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, in Holland.