Associated Artists

ASSOCIATED ARTISTS

Aurora Negra

Aurora Negra is the collective created by Cleo Tavares, Isabél Zuaa and Nádia Yracema. The three are formed by ESTC (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema), following a parallel path in acting for Theater and Cinema, nationally and internationally. Aurora Negra is born from the realization of the invisibility to which black bodies are subject in the performing arts and intends to give voice to these bodies. Cosmos is the second joint project of the three authors.

 

Diana Niepce

Dancer, choreographer and writer, graduated from the School of Dance (ESD) and Erasmus at Helsinki Theater academy (Teak). She completed her studies with a Performing Arts Management and Production Course, at Forum Dança, Hatha-yoga teacher course and a post-graduation in Art and Communication at New university of lisbon (UNL). Creator of the pieces “Raw a Nude” (2019) with Mariana Tengner Barros, “12 979 Days” (2019), “Duet” (2020), “T4” (2020) and “Anda, Diana” (2021). As a contemporary dancer and performer, she collaborated with Bail-Moderne with Company Rosas, Felix Ruckert, Willi Dorner, António Tagliarini, Daria Deflorian, La fura del baus, May Joseph, Sofia Varino, Miira Sippola, Jérome Bel, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Ana Rita Barata and Pedro Sena Nunes, Mariana Tengner Barros, Rui Catalão, Rafael Alvarez, Adam Benjamin, Diana de Sousa and Justyna Wielgus. Published an article in the book “Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in Lisbon” (ed. Egeac / INCM), the children’s short story “Bayadére” (ed. CNB), the poem “2014” in the magazine Flanzine, the article “Experimentar o corpo” in the performing arts journal Coreia, and the book “Anda, Diana” (ed. Sistema Solar). Jury of the 2018 Acesso Cultura prize, official Jury of the International screendance festival Inshadow 2018 and Jury of the application NCED – Eu solidarity 2021.

 

Jonas & Lander

Jonas & Lander, a duo of Portuguese choreographers, have contributed to each other’s imaginary since 2011 when they began their collaboration. They stood out with Cascas d’OvO, a work that took them to several national and international stages. Since then, and until 2017, they have also created and presented Matilda Carlota, Arrastão and Adorabilis. They were distinguished as “Aerowaves Priority Company” in 2014 and 2017. In 2019, they premiere Lento e Largo, a show coproduced by Rede 5 Sentidos, Teatro do Bairro Alto and Teatro Freiburg (Germany), nominated by SPA for Best Choreography of 2019, and Coin Operated, in coproduction with BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts. In 2021, Jonas&Lander propose to rescue the lost dances of Fado, in a hybrid show between music and dance, Bate Fado, which premiered at the DDD Festival, and has been a national and international success, having been nominated by the newspapers Expresso and Público as the best dance show of the year.

Mário Coelho

Mário Coelho joined the degree in theatre – acting at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School in 2012. Among his creations, he highlights É Difícil para Mim Dançar! (It’s Hard for Me to Dance), Teatro da Politécnica, Fuck Me Gently!, Rua das Gaivotas 6/ CCB, and Lisbon Sisters, CCB. In 2021, he was the lucky winner of the AGEAS / TDNDMII New Talent Award. In 2022, he premiered his latest creation, Se te portares bem, vamos ao McDonald’s! (If you Behave, We’ll Go to McDonalds!), co-produced by Teatro do Bairro Alto (TBA).

Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Born in Cape Verde, Marlene Monteiro Freitas is a dancer and choreographer. She studied dance in Brussels and Lisbon, followed by collaborations with Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, Tânia Carvalho, Boris Charmatz, among others. After establishing her first company Compass in Cape Verde, she now works with P.OR.K – co-founded by her – in Lisbon and collaborates with O Espaço do Tempo. Her oeuvre is characterised by unity of openness, heterogeneousness and intensity and includes such productions as Primeira Impressão (2005), A Improbabilidade da Certeza and Larvar (2006), Uns e Outros (2008), A Seriedade do Animal (2009), a solo Guintche (2010), (M)imosa (2011, in collaboration with Trajal Harell, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea), Paraìso, colecçao privada (2012), and De Marfim e carne – as estátuas também sofrem (2014), Bacantes – Prelúdio para uma Purga (2017). In 2017, she was distinguished by the government of Cape Verde for her cultural achievement. In 2018, she created Canine Jaunâtre 3 for Batsheva Dance Company and was awarded the Silver Lion award for dance at the Venice Biennale. In August 2020, MAL – Embriaguez Divina premiered in Kampnagel, Hamburg and in July 2021, her newest creation Pierrot Lunaire with Ingo Metzmacher was presented at the WienerFestwochen.”}” data-sheets-userformat=”{“2″:897,”3”:{“1″:0},”10″:1,”11″:0,”12″:0}”>Born in Cape Verde, Marlene Monteiro Freitas is a dancer and choreographer. She studied dance in Brussels and Lisbon, followed by collaborations with Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, Tânia Carvalho, Boris Charmatz, among others. After establishing her first company Compass in Cape Verde, she now works with P.OR.K – co-founded by her – in Lisbon and collaborates with O Espaço do Tempo. Her oeuvre is characterised by unity of openness, heterogeneousness and intensity and includes such productions as Primeira Impressão (2005), A Improbabilidade da Certeza and Larvar (2006), Uns e Outros (2008), A Seriedade do Animal (2009), a solo Guintche (2010), (M)imosa (2011, in collaboration with Trajal Harell, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea), Paraìso, colecçao privada (2012), and De Marfim e carne – as estátuas também sofrem (2014), Bacantes – Prelúdio para uma Purga (2017). In 2017, she was distinguished by the government of Cape Verde for her cultural achievement. In 2018, she created Canine Jaunâtre 3 for Batsheva Dance Company and was awarded the Silver Lion award for dance at the Venice Biennale. In August 2020, MAL – Embriaguez Divina premiered in Kampnagel, Hamburg and in July 2021, her newest creation Pierrot Lunaire with Ingo Metzmacher was presented at the WienerFestwochen.

 

Odete

Odete is a multidisciplinary artist working between the fields of music, visual arts, writing, performance, and theatre, born in Porto in 1995. Her writings have previously appeared in Trains Magazine, Tranfeminist Zine, and others. Her work in music includes the edited EPs and albums THE CONSEQUENCES OF A BLOOD LANGUAGE (Genome 6.66 Mbp, 2021); Water Bender (New Scenario, 2020); For those who are bored paranoid (Self-release, 2019); Mooring (Rotten: Fresco, 2019); and Matrafona (Naivety, 2018). Her performances have been presented at Teatro São Luiz (Lisbon), CTM Festival (Berlin), BOCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, MAAT Museum (Lisbon), Galeria Municipal do Porto (Porto), and Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre (Porto). In 2020 she won the ReXform Award for performing arts, from which resulted the project On Revelations and Muddy Becomings on which her first book is based.

Piny

Piny was born in Lisbon to Angolan parents. She began studying Middle Eastern dances in 1999 and turned her focus to Hip Hop culture beginning in 2003. She holds degrees in Architecture and Dance. In 2012, she formed the Orchidaceae collective, bringing together street dance, clubbing, contemporary dance and fusion belly dance. In contemporary dance, she has worked with Filipa Francisco, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes, Ricardo Ambrózio, Tânia Carvalho, Cristina Planas Leitão, and Marco da Silva Ferreira. Recent choreography and creation highlights include Periférico by Vhils for the BoCA Bienal and a 2019 solo, HIP. a pussy point of view. She is currently developing a group piece, .G Rito. She has taught dance classes and workshops since 2006 (internationally, since 2014), which allows her to keep learning. She believes in many things that can’t be seen and other things.

Rogério Nuno Costa

Performance artist, theatre director, writer, researcher, pedagogue and curator based in Finland and Portugal. His cross-disciplinary projects explore the fields of theatre, dance, visual arts and literature. Works with many artists and companies, taking the roles of artistic consultant, dramaturgist, editor, co-director and performer. He has been teaching in independent art schools and lecturing in academic institutions such as Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha), ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem) and Minho University (Guimarães), where he is also a collaborator in the Performative Studies Research Group. Associated artist at O Espaço do Tempo. Member of Globe Art Point and guest researcher in the University of the Arts’ Artistic Pedagogy Research project (Helsinki). Currently, he’s a guest artist in the international project STAGES – Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift (Teatro Nacional D. Maria II).

 

Teatro Praga

Teatro Praga assumes itself as a group or federation of artists, with a coat of arms and history. As each show, or day, is something else, he usually answers the question of who he is with a reformulation of the question. Even so, Teatro Praga rejoices in the established order and looks at the unpredictable variations to which it is subjected as a way of expanding the concept of predictability. Teatro Praga was born in 1995 and is headquartered at Rua das Gaivotas, in Lisbon. He regularly collaborates with some of the most prestigious cultural structures in Portugal and has performed at festivals and theaters in several European countries (Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Denmark and Poland), in Israel and China.