Maria Noujaim (1986) graduated in contemporary dance from Escola Angel Vianna (RJ, 2012) and holds a PhD in art history from PUC-Rio (2020). Since 2012, she has developed performances, scores, and installations, and has worked to integrate dance into education.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, including MARCO Museo (Mexico), The Bass Museum (USA), and Momentum Biennale (Norway). She has also collaborated with educational and mental health institutions such as Arco Escola Cooperativa (SP) and CAPS EAT – Engenho de Dentro (RJ). In 2020, she received an award from the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (Miami, USA). The following year, driven to engage more directly with environmental issues, she moved from São Paulo to the rural area of Itamonte (MG), where she founded and directs Campo Escola de Movimento — a non-profit organization that promotes dance as a social technology for the human and environmental development of children and youth. She currently lives between Itamonte and other locations, developing her artistic and pedagogical research based on the language of dance.

Untitled (2019), from the series Seriação, is a performance score that exposes the logical progression of certain body movements and their spatial displacements. It is a mathematically structured choreography that accumulates gestures starting from the simplest body articulations. Seriação is also a central concept in child cognitive development — the intuitive ability to organize and progress — here investigated through the body’s own movement.

The score allows the performance to be re-enacted in different spaces, with varied movements and numbers of performers, while maintaining the work’s logical structure intact.