Vânia Doutel Vaz is Angolan and was born in Setúbal. She studied at Royal Dance Academy, at Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional and at Forum Dança. She was a member of the Portuguese Contemporary Ballet Company, Nederlands Dans Theater, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (CLCB) and PUNCHDRUNK. As a freelance artist, she has collaborated with Trajal Harrell, Eszter Salamon, Uri Aran and Tânia Carvalho, among others. She created ad aeternum, video performance commissioned by TBA included in Recolhimento Obrigatório (2020); Bureauc’Art, performance presented at CunstLink gallery (2019); and THEIR – piece in lab for CLCB (2015). She was an assistant movement director in Uma Dança das Florestas, by Zia Soares.