Piny is a human, intersectional feminist, antiracist, environmentalist and activist. She is an artist, architect, performer, dancer, educator and choreographer, born in Lisbon of Portuguese and Angolan descent. She holds a degree in Architecture (FAUTL, 2007), a postgraduate degree in Scenography (2009), and completed the “Scenography, Dance, and Architecture” program in Paris (École Nationale d’Architecture and CND). In 2012, she graduated in Dance in Lisbon.

As an independent artist, she has created and performed works such as Periférico (with Vhils, BoCA Biennale, 2017), HIP. a pussy point of view (2019), .G Rito (2021), and ONYX (2024), and will premiere her new creation a.travessa.da in 2026 at DDD Festival, in Porto. In 2023, she became artistic director and curator of OU.kupa festival, focused on emerging choreographers in street and clubbing dance and archival practices.

Her practice is informed by ongoing studies in Hatha Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, African philosophies (with Katiuscia Ribeiro), and decolonial curatorial practices (with Kathy-Ann Tan), alongside explorations of astrology, tarot, and non-Eurocentric thought.

Her dance journey began in 1999 with Raqs Sharqi and Baladi. Since 2006, she has researched, taught and performed Afro-North American street and clubbing dances across Europe and New York. She founded ButterflieSoulFlow (2006), Orchidaceae (2012), Vogue PT (2019), and joined the House of Revlon (2025).

Since 2012, she has focused on hybrid vocabularies and their political contexts. She has taught in Portugal since 2006 and internationally since 2014, and collaborated with artists including Boris Charmatz, Tânia Carvalho and Marco da Silva Ferreira.