From an early age, Analivia Cordeiro showed interest in exploring the interdisciplinary relationships of dance with other artistic areas and above all with the use of new technologies. In 1973 she created the computer video art work M3x3, presented at the Edinburgh International Festival, which placed her as a Latin American pioneer of video art and one of the world pioneers in computer-dance and electronic arts. PhD with two postdocs, and member of the UNESCO International Dance Commission, she graduated in Architecture, 1976. She studied under Laban method and continued with contemporary dance with Merce Cunningham and Alvin Nikolais, New York, 1977/1979. In an innovative way, she explores the multiple dimensions of the body as a field, as a means and as an interface, present in the expanded and transdisciplinary use of technological resources. Her projects offer multisensory experiences to the public at the intersection of plastic and body movement with visual, audiovisual and performance arts. Her work was presented in numerous international exhibitions of historical importance: XII São Paulo Biennial; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; 20th American Dance Guild Conference, New York; Presentation on the public TV channel WGBH; Brazil XX Century, Bienal de São Paulo; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo; 27th Annual Dance on Camera Festival, New York. After 26 years dedicated to her father's artistic legacy, Waldemar Cordeiro, Analivia returned to the artistic scene with new proposals, including virtual dance, sculpture, and interactive art.
Exhibitions of her work include B3 Biennale of Moving Images - Expanded Senses, Frankfurt; 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; LACMA, Los Angeles; Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Musée des arts de Nantes, France; Tate Contemporary, London; OGR Torino, Italy. Her new works developed using the software Nota-Anna, created together with Nilton Lobo (1983/2017), including the App BodyWay Nota-Anna (2023) launched in her retrospective solo exhibitions at Media Arts Center ZKM, Germany and Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, together with the Analivia Cordeiro-From Body to Code book, published by ZKM and Hirmer Verlag. It has been featured at major technology events and worldwide lectures such as Sawyers Seminar, University of Chicago; L'Ombra dei Maestri - Rudolf Laban: gli spazi della danza, Università degli Studi di Bologna; 2001 JavaOne, and 2003 JavaOne, Moscone Center, San Francisco; A Brazilian Computer-Video-Dance from 70s, University of California Berkeley; 2025 Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, California.
Her work belongs to art collections, as Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt; MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA; MAC USP Contemporary Art Museum, São Paulo; Pinacoteca de São Paulo and Itaú Cultural, São Paulo; archive of the artist Oskar Schlemmer as a follower.
