Raul Maia

Raul Maia is a Portuguese physical performance artist. His primordial focus as a maker and practitioner is in creating artistic practices that generate performative forms of physical behaviour and communication between performers. These practices are the raw materials that define the identity of his performances. He also creates soundscapes in the frame of his own performances. His work has been shown in festivals and houses such as ImPulsTanz, Xplore dance Festival (Ro), Potsdam Tanzfabrik (DE), Idans Istanbul (TR), Tanzquartier, WUK, brut Wien and D.D.D. (PT) among others. As a performer he has collaborated with Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus, Tino Sehgal, Fanni Futterknecht, Alexander Gottfarb, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Paul Wenninger and Catarina Miranda amongst others.

Works at brut

• the word of the gap (2023)