Maïra de Oliveira Aggio is a Brazilian artist-researcher. After twelve years living in Europe, she still claims a visceral belonging to the North-East region of Brazil where she grew up (Salvador, Bahia). She graduated as a trapeze artist from ESAC (Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque, Brussels) in 2013, after attending the Escola Nacional de Circo of Rio de Janeiro, the Universities of Contemporary Dance UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), and UNICAMP (Campinas, São Paulo), movement and the body have a central place in her personal and professional life.
Passionate about transmission, certainly influenced by her teacher-researcher parents, Maïra de Oliveira Aggio has taught circus at CIAM (Centre Internationale des Arts en Mouvement, Aix-en-Provence) and at ARCHAOS (Pôle National des Arts du Cirque, Marseille). She has also been an Ashtanga yoga teacher for seven years.
Today, Maïra de Oliveira Aggio is writing her first solo show MACACADA in a multidisciplinary way, reflecting her background and her subjectivity. It is with this project that she is welcomed in residence at the Cité internationale des arts. MACACADA spans over themes that run through her work, such as the counter-colonisation of knowledge, ecology, feminism, and the performing arts. She is the winner of the Bourse Écriture Cirque 2021 from the Association Beaumarchais, as well as the Bourse Écriture en Campagne from LATITUDE 50 (Pôle des Arts du Cirque et de la Rue, Belgium).