Maria Lothe (SE/NO b. 1991) is a dance artist based in Oslo, educated from the School for New Dance (Skolen for Samtidsdans) in Oslo (2012), and Trinity Laban in London (2015). She works in collective constellations as a performer and choreographer, and has received the Norwegian Government Artist Grant for young artists. 

 

As a performer, Maria has worked within dance, theatre and performance art in the UK and Norway. Recent collaborations as a dancer include Resisting Extinction and Togethering by BodyCartography Project and Drag as ecological practice by Maja Roel. She is a company member of the inclusive performing arts company Kompani D, who recently premiered Krets in collaboration with Øy at Dansens Hus in Oslo. 

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Maria's choreographic interest unfolds at the intersection of queerness, nature and culture, exploring alternative ways of coexisting across species and differences. She combines science and imagination, the playful and the serious.

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Together with the queer collective STICKY Productions, she has created and performed Hedda nominated Ecoheroes (Økohelter 2022), a family performance highlighting the superpowers of the forest, and OOZE (2024), exploring the spectacular mating ritual of slugs through a queer lense. Both have been performed at Dansens Hus and selected to tour through Dancenet Norway, amongst others.