Maria Pisiou is a Greek-born dancer, choreographer, researcher, and teacher based in Amsterdam. She holds two BAs, one in Dance and another in Pedagogy, as well as an MA in Artistic Research and Performance Practices from ArtEZ (Master in Performance Practices). The primary qualities that inform her choreographic work and process are the elements of chance and spontaneity. She approaches these elements as motivating forces that can shift defined patterns. Additionally, she explores the use of imagination as a tool to propose alternative ways of experiencing both the dancing body and the world. Instant composition, improvisation practices, and the use of choreographic scores are the main methods she employs for moving, brainstorming, thinking, and composing, while approaching the dancing body as a fluid archive.

As a performer, she has worked with Marina Abramović, Julyen Hamilton, Byström Källblad, Iris Woutera, Christine Elisson, Erato Tzavara, Eleonora Siarava, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, and more. Her choreographic work has been presented at various festivals in several countries, including Greece, Germany, Belgium, the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands. She founded the research-based dance company LostMovement Collective in collaboration with dance artists Fernanda Gonzales Morales and Dieter Defurne. The collective’s artistic work emanates from research on the experience of touch through sound and the approach of the dancing body as a living archive.