Rônni Maciel was born in Carmo (Brazil). He studied at the Escola Estadual de Dança Maria Olenewa and at the Ballet Dalal Achcar in Rio de Janeiro. In 2001 he began his career at the Balé Teatro Guaíra. In 2006 he came to Hamburg with Deborah Colker's Maracanã which was shown at Kampnagel. Rônni has been based in Germany ever since. He has danced for Constanza Macras at venues including the Schaubühne, Volksbühne, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin and the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden, as well as for Ismael Ivo, Johann Kresnik, Jürgen Flimm and Frank Castorf. In addition to his work in the theatre, he performed in films and music videos. Since 2013 he has worked as a choreographer at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Volkstheater Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Neuköllner Oper, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, and the aufBruch Berlin prison theatre. Rônni has also presented works at the Goethe Institutes in Cairo and Alexandria. He collaborated with Liesbeth Coltof on Miroloi, based on the novel by Karen Köhler, at DT Berlin (awarded the Der Faust prize for theatre) and on Das Leben macht mir keine Angst (Life doesn’t frighten me) by Maya Angelou at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. At DT Berlin, he also choreographed Der Einzige und sein Eigentum by Sebastian Hartmann (invited to the 2023 Theatertreffen festival). More roles in film followed, including Josephine Baker in Julian Rosefeldt’s Deep Gold and Ash Wednesday, the latter of which was screened at the 2023 Berlinale. In 2024 he appeared in Die Ehe der Maria Braun at Schauspiel Frankfurt and in Der Zauberberg directed by Christian Weise at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. In the 2024/2025 season, he is the choreographer for Romeo und Julia at the Staatstheater Augsburg under the direction of Lilli-Hannah Hoepner and a production of the same name directed by Bassam Ghazi with the Stadt:Kollektiv at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. Most recently, Rônni choreographed and performed in Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht (Long Day’s Journey Into Night) by Eugene O'Neill in a production directed by Sebastian Hartmann at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.
