MeioFio

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.

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.

With more than 10 years of activity across 7 different countries, this musical and visual project brings together various producers and collectors of sounds to mix and play. Sound collages, instantaneous, mixed & simmering in an electronic cauldron, layered together, played live and vibrantly by beatmakers, electromagnetic drummers, sound mixers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, evoking the heat of the eternal loop. ​​​​​​​rodadesmaple.com

Plástico, papelão, tinta na cara e dentes afiados é o que une esta companhia. As realidades aqui decidem não pedir licença, o encontro é inevitável. São tantos que a ficção aqui busca maneiras de adiar o fim do mundo. O nosso lugar de reivindicação presente é ocupar com a força do imaginário como procedimentos metodológicos de criação em performance, no qual alargue as experiências dentro e fora da arte, coexistindo com o social e estético.