Nathalie S. Fari (b. 1975 in São Paulo) is a German-Brazilian performance artist, researcher and lecturer dealing with questions of mediation, documentation and translation of site-oriented performance practices. She holds a degree in Art Education from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado University (1998), a Master of Arts in Space Strategies – Exploratory Art in Public Contexts (2009) from Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and a Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Practices (2024) from The Artistic Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Additionally, she has completed trainings in acting and experimental theatre at the TUCA theatre school (1994) of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and at the renowned Centro de Pesquisa Teatral Institute (1995) under the direction of Antunes Filho. Furthermore, she has been exploring for over 30 years several embodied practices, from dance (Jazz, Butoh, Isadora Duncan) to acrobatics, to movement improvisation, to yoga (she is certified in the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system) and conscious dance (5 Rhythms).

After her move to Berlin in 2004, Nathalie founded the production label atelier obra viva to foster a cross-disciplinary and international dialogue amongst artists and researchers from different fields. With a focus on site-specific performance, urban intervention and performance as research, the atelier obra viva has carried out several projects as well as educational programs at different places such as historical sites, public spaces and cultural institutions. A key focus has been to apply the concept of Body Mapping to explore how a specific place can serve as a creative source for generating a variety of artistic and/or research outcomes such as articles, video-essays, and screen works.

Since 2018, Nathalie is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she has been dedicated to the field of artistic research, especially by designing site-oriented performance laboratories focused on the relationship between embodiment and audio-visuality. Currently, she is developing a post-doctoral project  on the topic Rendering Urban Digitalisation through Screen Performance Research which is affiliated at the research cluster Materialities & Experimental Aesthetics at HDK-Valand.