Marcela Levi is a choreographer and performer. Over the last 22 years, she has been developing projects that dissolve the boundaries between dance and the visual arts creating a zone of ambiguity and displacements. Graduated from the Angel Vianna Dance School (Rio de Janeiro), Levi has been a resident artist at the Art Center Les Recollets (France), at the Artistas en Residencia - Casa Encendida / Aula de Danza Program (Spain), at Espacio Cultural Azala (Spain), at the Laboratório de Criatividade Urbana ON.OFF, Guimarães 2012 - European Capital of Culture (Portugal), guest artist at the Rio Occupation London program, at the London Cultural Olympiad promoted by SEC RJ (London) and received the Batiscafo scholarship (Cuba). Her works: Image" (2002), "Mass of Senses" (2004) - included as one of the ten best dance works of 2004 in the O Globo newspaper list - , "In-organic" (2007) - included by the English Artsadmin organization in "The top 40 illustrated guide to 2008", cited in the 2008 yearbook of the German magazine Ballettanz and included as one of the ten best dance works of 2007 in the list of Jornal do Brasil - and "Around the hole everything is edge" (2009) - included among the highlights of dance in 2009 by the specialized critics of the newspaper O Globo, awarded the ZKB Recognition Award / Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich 2010 - were presented at various festivals and art centers as: Impulstanz Festival (Vienna), Les inaccoutumés - Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), in Transit (Berlin), In Presentables (Madrid), Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Nottdance (Nottingham), Arnolfini (Bristol), Teatro Solís (Montevideo), COCOA Festival (Buenos Aires), International Dance Biennial of Ceará, Casa França Brasil, MAM RJ, among others. Levi has collaborated with the artists Lia Rodrigues, Vera Mantero, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Laura Erber, Manuel Vason, Cristina Moura, Dani Lima and Gustavo Ciríaco, and others.

In 2010, Marcela Levi (1973, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Lucía Russo (1975, Patagonia, Argentina) founded in Rio de Janeiro a training, research and creation platform called Improvável Produções (Improbable Productions). Levi & Russo are committed to a polyphonic direction in which different inventive positions intertwine in a process that embraces deviant lines, dissent and internal differences as a constructive critical force and not as self-exclusive polarities.

The work of Improvável Produções tends towards an experimental aesthetic that emerges from a singular encounter with the impasses of Brazilian society. There is a rigorous effort to, instead of succumbing, convert tensions and entanglements into the very matter of an artistic production.

Improvável Produções is responsible for the conception, creation and production of the dance pieces "Monstrous Nature" (2011), "Mordedores" (2015) - included in the list of the newspaper O Globo as one of the outstanding dance shows in 2015 - ,"Iron Mouth" (2016) - included in the list of the newspaper O Globo as one of the outstanding dance performances in 2018 and nominated for the Cesgranrio Dance Prize in the categories "best choreography" and "best dancer" - , "Let it Burn" (2017) - included in the list of the newspaper O Globo as one of the outstanding dance performances in 2017 - , "HARM-ONY" (2019), with the coproduction of Iberescena Fund and NAVE (Santiago do Chile), grrRoUNd" (2021), with the coproduction of Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Julidans, Pact Zollverein and Something Great, "3 against 2 Psycho Tropics" (2023) with the coproduction of Julidans, CCN de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre de l’Accueil-studio, Sítio Canto da Sabiá and Something Great; the urban intervention "Sandwalk with me" (2012/13) developed between London and Rio de Janeiro with the support of the State Secretariat of Culture of RJ and with the co-production of the Panorama Festival 2013; the collective reading "Given Words" (2021) with the sponsorship of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of Rio de Janeiro through the Aldir Blanc Law and the film "short, short, long and sometimes short, long, short" (2021) co-produced by Panorama Raft. Improvável's projects have been presented in many theatres, festivals and arts centres in Latin America and Europe as: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Théâtre de la Ville and Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris), Julidans (Amsterdam), Zurich Moves!, Side Step Festival (Helsinki), Tanzquartier (Vienna), MIT (São Paulo), Festival de Curitiba, Mercat de les Flors and Sala Hiroshima (Barcelona), Museum of Arts and Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), Sophiensaele / Performance Platform: Body Affects (Berlin), GAM and NAVE (Santiago de Chile), Teatro Solís / FIDCU (Montevideo), Kaserne (Basel), among many others.