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Alex Simões aka Xana Modas is a visual artist, originally from Lisbon, who works with film, clothing and set design, specialising in costumes and characters made from card and sequins. A graduate in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, as Xana Modas she screams trends, with a healthy dose of conceptual aesthetic provocation. She also works as a DJ and cultural producer, beginning in 2014 in the dive bars of London, where she made the queers dance! RAD FESTA (a glam punk event featuring performance, music and cigarette butt-filled wigs) opened up new vistas...

Born in São Paulo — the city where she grew up in the daily flows of immigration and developed tactics for street expression as a member of party collectives — Ágatha CIGARRA has been a DJ, performer, music producer and cultural agent for over 15 years. She has spent half of that time in the Lisbon scene, working in partnership with the city and dissident artists. She has held residencies in the city’s foremost venues and is one of the driving forces behind the rise of street carnival in Portugal. Carniçeira, BLOCU, MeioFio (Alkantara Festival),...

Era Jaja Rolim is a brasilian travesti, whose anthropophagic dance practice is translated through film, theatre and choreographic installations. She conceives of performance as a form of living sculpture that allows they to become an object and a subject simultaneously. Infused by the symbolic creative work and reframing found in the collective imagination, they compose their work around ideas of the body – both individual and collective – as a medium that crosses borders.

Izabel Nejur (b. 1981, Rio Branco - Acre, Amazonia) travels from Brazil to Portugal in 2018. A non-binary artist, she uses her fluidity as the main tool in her multidisciplinary work. Her restlessness is the driving force behind her creation, her intuition and wisdom for innovation. She has worked in cinema, dance, performance, writing and DIY video art. She has a degree in Journalism and postgraduate qualifications in cinema (UTP-Curitiba/Brazil) and dance (FAP-Faculdades de Artes do Paraná/Brazil). She studied at FOR (Formação Olga Roriz) - 2018/2019. She is...

Kaloan is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and immigrant living in Berlin for the past three years. They work at the intersection of experimental music and performance, exploring the relation between sound and movement using motion sensors placed on their body. Their inspiration/research derives from the trance practices of different rituals from Brazilian culture and their decolonising potential. Their performances are marked by vibrant colours, exotic garments, and a collection of unique samples that blend Brazilian electronic rhythms, synths and field...

Nicole Gomes is a Brazilian performer, dancer, actor and teacher working in the field of performing arts. Her projects relate above all to the relationship and friction between body, matter and space. Her education comprises degrees in dance and theatre. Currently living in Lisbon, she has participated in PACAP 5, curated by João Fiadeiro, and is a performer and writer at Palácio do Grilo. @nicolegomes.al

Odete is a multidisciplinary artist whose work operates in the fields of music, visual arts, performance and theatre. She completed the course in Performance Arts at the Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo – Escola de Artes in Porto, in 2013, where she specialised in performing arts in the area of representation. She also has a bachelor’s degree in General Studies from the Universidade de Lisboa. She has shown her work in leading Portuguese festivals, theatres and cultural spaces, as well as throughout Europe and Asia. Recently, she was awarded the ReXform prize...

Renato Rocha was born in Brasília and lives in Lisbon. Graduated in Visual Arts at Universidade de Brasília (UnB), explores multi-linguages in the duality between sound and image. DJ, composer, designer, cenographer and cultural producer. As a musician has released 6 EPs and various singles in both digital and vinyl formats and has performed in more than 20 countries. He produced events in Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.

RezmOrah is a spiritualised strayed trans, an undetectable legal immigrant. An umbrella of the arts, constructed from music and poetry via performance art and theatre. Raised between Brazil, Portugal, NYC and the world, they spill across media using their body, words and voice, music and video. They are a member of the queer collective CuntsCollective, based in Denmark, and Physical Guerrillas, a Chinese physical theatre group. They are a channel for astral transcestors, drawn by the great power of the subtle. @resmorah

Vinicius BigJohn has been a musician since 2008. He began playing accordion in forró bands before specialising as a keyboardist, composer and researcher of musical technology. He dedicated five years of his career to Coutto Orchestra, a band from Sergipe that received national and international acclaim, appearing in renowned festivals such as Circulart (Colombia), Rec-Beat (Recife), Festival SIM (São Paulo) and Contrapedal (Uruguay), among others, and receiving awards from Momo Instrumental (2014) and Natura Musical (2016). Vinicius has played with other artists such...

Zaya Xiana was born between binary symbols and coordinates in order to take on new formulations. Out of determinants the phoenix is reborn. Alentejanan by blood, wounded in Leo. A self-made artist in ascension, performer since the beginning of 2022, art and identity expanding in search of collective rebirth. @roadtozaya