https://www.marianaoliveira.net/bio daily 0.75 2026-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/171e921b-521d-4c2c-bc10-c2f7c7f36ac3/_VGL4245-2.jpg Bio Originally from Brazil, Mariana Oliveira has created works for numerous leading dance organizations across the U.S., including the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, Joffrey Ballet (Winning Works), Ballet West Academy, Kansas City Ballet, Carolina Ballet, and Nevada Ballet Theatre. Her choreography has also been commissioned by BalletX, Ballet Memphis, Richmond Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Ballet Des Moines, Milwaukee Ballet, Madison Ballet, Ballet Arkansas, American Midwest Ballet, and Chicago Repertory Ballet, as well as the National Choreographers Initiative, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and The University of Oklahoma School of Dance. Oliveira is the recipient of the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship, as well as the Kansas University Choreographic Fellowship. In 2015, Mariana was nominated for the World Choreography Awards in Los Angeles. Oliveira is the founder of The Union Project Dance Company, and her works have been presented at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, McCallum Theatre Choreography Festival, LA Dance Festival, Tribeca Performing Arts, and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, among others. Oliveira studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in Brazil and London, and was a trainee dancer with the National Dance Company of Wales and the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. https://www.marianaoliveira.net/contact daily 0.75 2024-10-20 https://www.marianaoliveira.net/home daily 1.0 2026-10-26 https://www.marianaoliveira.net/home/calendar monthly 0.5 2026-09-04 https://www.marianaoliveira.net/home/works monthly 0.5 2026-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/9a963325-6b52-4c35-84ec-39daa006a0de/1-Desktop22.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/5a9144b6-154d-498e-8c98-8a45cd56b077/ChrisWaltPhoto-7.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/e0b14450-8807-416b-a706-2b1d543b38e2/Collage.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/5791a8bf-d6e9-4d89-85b4-b71ac7961504/2+-+MO+-+Beauty+in+Chaos.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/f0f95dfc-9eb2-4c84-a587-a2a54a99af95/1-Death-and-the-Maiden.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/06de51db-73bc-4aff-8400-b5028d6d0239/_B1A5613.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/5edb32fc-0a6f-4c90-ae35-2335134244b4/Screenshot+2023-07-31+at+7.21.51+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/1594051738241-ETHZ34V7K5EDGOI3L55J/z%252BCK3T0112.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/f0ca558c-00c6-4122-805e-8fafba4edd36/1-Photo%2B6.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/e1b8dc76-dd26-4b5b-839f-038acb7ebd99/Movimiento+Oct-17-48.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Works SONGS OF A DISTANT LAND BALLET DES MOINES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/0be19eac-05e9-42c4-851c-131d67e15e91/IMG_6379.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Works ETERNAL SPRING NEVADA BALLET THEATRE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/bfa5909f-155a-4aab-afa7-6f4145fcf908/PM_UNCSA_FD_2022_080.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Works DREAMLAND UNIVERSITY OF NC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/086cc27d-01d6-4c09-878f-ad09c5b01ce4/Photo%252B5.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Works MY LOST MELODY RICHMOND BALLET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/23b2ece1-0e05-4c11-9ef0-a2442d3fe751/1-DB-Perspectives-2019-0505.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Works ISLE OF THE DEAD DAYTON BALLET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/984daf38-9a1c-42d1-b291-c7d6fdbdf49a/190308_nyci_3305.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Works A HUMMINGBIRD TOLD ME NYCB CHOREOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE https://www.marianaoliveira.net/home/press monthly 0.5 2020-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/1584473565958-AH9ZAJQXU2UDDQ1XJH7C/3+-+Pagliacci+-+Photo+by+Mark+Frohna.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Press - “Pagliacci is full of wit and charm … Oliveira invents a vocabulary that evokes the spirit of Chaplinesque physicality.” — Paul Kosidowski (Milwaukee Magazine, 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/1584474489084-81JY4DUTDCC1UGC91IEQ/1-40287473991_2be3ec7f91_o-002.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Press - “Mariana Oliveira’s Beauty in Chaos was a sophisticated ballet.” — Paul Hirsley (The Independent, 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/1584475020941-E4Q2NLJAKPESTV8OOEXK/thumb_DSCF1995-X2_1024.jpg Mariana Oliveira - Press - “Her patterns for both the male and female corps were outstanding … there were some glimpses of brilliance and this lady shows signs of a future.” — Bob Sphatt (ShowBiz Chicago, 2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6f7ff267561c35bbec3407/c47d35e4-55a2-4e6f-b71d-ca1b0edf127d/Screenshot+2022-11-02+at+1.08.52+PM.jpg