Raul Maia is a Portuguese creator, choreographer and performer born in 1981. He lived in Austria for 12 years and has recently returned to Portugal. His work is based on the creation of physical artistic practices, which create alternative languages and behaviours through the reformulation of the conditions that precede movement and its relation to thought.

His artistic activity is divided between his own creations, artistic collaboration with the Belgian artist Thomas Steyaert and his work as a performer. Within the scope of performative creation, he is also dedicated to the composition of soundscapes/sound dramaturgies that contextualise his stage works. His creations have been presented in several theatres and festivals such as DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, ImpulsTanz, Xplore dance Festival, Potscam Tanzfabrik, Idans Istanbul,  Tanzquartier, WUK and Brut, among others.

As a performer he highlights his collaboration with Ulima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus,, Anna MacRae, Tino Sehgal, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Fanni Futterknecht, Mike O’Connor, Paul Wenninger and Alexander Gootfarb.