Adriana Reyes is an anthropologist and creator in the field of live arts. She holds a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UFRGS (Porto Alegre), ISCTE (Lisbon), and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and a Master’s in Feminist Studies (UAM), where she joined the Anthropology department with a postgraduate scholarship. She has worked in both academic and activist contexts, specialising in diversity, transfeminisms, and sexualities.

Her encounter with dance mainly took place at c.e.m – centro em movimento (Lisbon), and she has also collaborated with creators such as Sofia Neuparth, Vera Mantero, Janet Novás, among many others. She coordinated the Aprocor Foundation in housing and independent living, creating projects on women, sexuality, and abuse prevention. She trained in body therapies (Tuina and tantric massage) and has researched Amazonian plants with Onanya Joni for over ten years.

She created Coreografias Selváticas, presented at several festivals, and Breviario for the Bosque Real Festival/Museo Reina Sofía. In 2022, she received the Art for Change grant (Fundación la Caixa) for the project Notas al pie and co-directed the Popular University of CA2M with Matorral.

Since 2015, she has been part of the collective namorada with Jesús Barranco and Marta Azparren, and accompanies works by Janet Novás and José Ramón Hernández. She is currently developing mediation projects at CA2M and IES Plaza de la Cruz, as well as plant laboratories in collaboration with Manuela Pedrón. She is creating ¡Esconderse, ah, esconderse! with support from residencies in Barcelona. Her interests include social sciences, live arts, transfeminisms, spiritualities, friendship, and non-human ways of life.

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