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Born in Lisbon, Alexandre Simões works with clothes, set design, film and slutting. Graduated in Fine Arts (not great, not bad, just fine) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Profissional without being amateur. Specialized in cardboard fantasies and charactheres made out of sequins. @alexbasim

Born in São Paulo, a city where she grew up in the daily flows of immigration and developed street expression tactics in party collectives. She has been a DJ, performer, music producer and cultural agent for over 15 years. She has dedicated half of this time to the Lisbon scene in partnership with the city and dissident artists. Her parties are resident in the city's main venues and she is an agent of the rise of street carnival in Portugal. Carniçeira, BLOCU, MeioFio (Alkantara Festival), Ancestrofuturismo, SOMA, Hystereofônica, Roda de Sample are some of the...

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 is a Brazilian performer living in Portugal since 2018, who uses her own fluidity as the principal tool in her multidisciplinary practice. Restlessness is the driver of creativity, intuition and knowledge the driver of innovation. She has made works in film, dance, performance, writing and DIY video art. She has a degree in journalism and post-graduate qualifications in film and dance. @izabelnejur___

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