Diana Niepce is a choreographer, dancer, author, curator and disability activist. At the age of 28, an accident changed the course of her life and artistic career. This experience led her to embrace a new relationship with the body, dance, and performance. Since then, she has developed a series of projects and artistic works in which she explores language and hybridity as forms of political action, challenging and redefining the identity of the performing body beyond conventional norms.

She graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança, completed an Erasmus program at Teatterikorkeakoulun (Helsinki), holds a Master’s degree in Art and Communication from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, attended the CPGAE training at Fórum Dança, and is a certified hatha yoga teacher.

She is an associated artist at Espaço do Tempo and the creator of the contemporary circus piece Forgotten Fog (2015) and the dance works Raw a nude (2019), 12 979 Dias (2019), Dueto (2020), T4 (2020), Anda, Diana (SPA Award, 2021), The Other Side of Dance (2022), Enfreakment (2024), Utopia (2024), Norm (2024), and Hornfuckers (2026).

As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with national and international artists and companies such as Bal Moderne/Compagnie Rosas, Felix Ruckert, Willi Dorner, António Tagliarini, Daria Deflorian, La Fura dels Baus, May Joseph, Sofia Varino, Miira Sippola, Jérôme Bel, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Ana Rita Barata and Pedro Sena Nunes, Mariana Tengner Barros, Rui Catalão, Rafael Alvarez, Adam Benjamin, Diana de Sousa, and Justyna Wielgus.

She also works as a curator and trainer, notably in the Introduction to Performing Arts for Artists with Disabilities program (2020), Fora da Norma (2023, Biblioteca de Marvila/CML), and Norm (2023, TNDMII). She curated the Political Bodies cycle (2024, Culturgest) and the Reunião project (2025).

As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with various national and international artists. Her most recent publications include the children’s story Bayadère (CNB), the book Anda, Diana (Sistema Solar) and an article for the dance not dance catalogue (ed. CM-F.C. Gulbenkian).