Be Dias (eli/deli, she/her) is a genderqueer artist, dancer, creator, performer and director (1995, France). Grew up in Stª Maria da Feira where the sense of community in urban dances and the eroticism of Cabaret paved the way for the 2nd birth - Lisbon, 2012. Currently resides in Porto, in a return to the home of empowerment and transparency. She uses her body and voice to question language in a reflection on his experience growing up in a Portuguese society marked by patriarchy, heteronormativity, Catholicism, binarism and capitalism. Research on artistic practices that expand subversion, viscerality, hybridity, celebration, resistance and liberation. She created MUSCULUS (INTERFERÊNCIAS Festival, 2019) and NEON 80 (Pendular co-programming between CCB and TMP, 2021/2023), having been nominated by the Autores 22’ Award as an interpreter. She is currently developing the autobiographical project RE.SET a metaphor for my queer emancipation co-produced by Teatro Viriato (NANT festival), DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro Cine Pombal and Cine Teatro Louletano. Highlights collaborations with Companhia Olga Roriz, Maurícia | Neves, Tamara Cubas, André Uerba, Diana de Sousa, André de Campos, Francisca Manuel and Teatro do Mar. She is regularly invited to lead improvisation classes or workshops, having graduated in Dance from ESD (2012-2015) and certified in the Olga Roriz Training (2015-2016).

N▲N▼ (she/her) is multi-instrumentalist, poet, performer, teacher and dangerous. Graduated in music in Brazil (UFPE, Pernambuco), her career spanning more than 15 years has ranged from improvisations at bus stops to opera houses and stages with thousands of people, such as Rock in Rio Lisboa, where in 2022 she participated as spalla (1st violin) of the Funk Orchestra. Specializing in jazz, it uses as raw material the syncopated rhythmic cells of the orixás of the Ketu and Nagô nations, as well as the poignancy of maracatu and the effervescence of frevo, traditional rhythms from the Northeast of Brazil, its homeland where it puts down sound roots. She works as a DJ in Portugal's queer nightlife scene, at the most irreverent and politically engaged parties in Lisbon, such as Blocu, Carniçeira and Voraz. Although her repertoire is too broad and deep to be classified into genres, there is one thing in common that summarizes Nany's artistic identity: the subversion of traumas, fears, shame, guilt, rage and other emotions arising from systemic oppression, into a source of pleasure and triumph. The artist calls this subversion: Darkness. Her latest solo performance, "O Último dia de Leão", was selected by the Open Call of Alkantara, Festival of Performing Arts, 2023, curated by Aurora Negra.

Catarina Côdea (she/her) was born in Lisbon in 1980. She attended the António Arroio Artistic Secondary School and the Portuguese Institute of Photography. In 2007 she graduated in Sound and Image from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha and immediately afterwards did an internship at the Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon. Since her graduation she has collaborated in the design and operation of light and sound in several companies and festivals: Sensurround, d'As Entranhas, A Tarumba, Monstra – Festival de Animação, Teatro Meridional, Festival de Almada, Festival Todos, Teatro Meia Volta, Karnart, Alkântara, Uau, Força de Produção, Teatro Meridional, Companhia de Teatro da Chanca, Caótica, among others. She currently works with Sara Carinhas, Marlene Barreto and Be Dias. Between 2008 and 2017 she was technical manager of the Museu da Marioneta de Lisboa.

Pietro Romani (he/him) began dancing with Francisco Camacho in 1996. Since then he has worked with several choreographers as an assistant and performer, but it is in supporting dramaturgy that he feels most fulfilled. He was an interpreter in plays by Carlota Lagido, Filipa Francisco, Francisco Camacho, Gary Stevens, Miguel Pereira, Tiago Guedes, Ana Borralho and João Galante. As an actor he worked with director José Álvaro de Morais. As an assistant artistic director, he worked with Francisco Camacho, Miguel Pereira, Paula Castro, Inês Jacques, Filipa Francisco, Tânia Carvalho, Tiago Guedes, Carlota Lagido, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Inês Campos, Jo Castro and Maurícia | Snows. Directed the “Madison” community event in Lille (2008); the play “When we think about time”, with the group of students from the Rainha Dona Leonor State School for the Maria Matos Theater (2010), in addition to the “Refreshing Dance” dance, in the presentation of the program for children and young people at the Maria Matos Theater (2013). He collaborated on productions by Hugo Mestre Amaro with movement and choreography. He directed the “Matrioska” workshops in Portugal and France; and “Vostok & Calypso” at Fábrica das Artes, in Lisbon; he was a guest professor at the Escola Superior de Dança, in Lisbon, in 2017 and 2022.

Jo Castro were born in Porto in 1988. They are a queer artist who develop projects between dance, performance, installation, voice and sound, having presented some of their works in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany and Brazil. With an autobiographical creative universe, in addition to issues such as death, memory and spectrality, gender issues cross their personal and artistic experience as they look for a body that operates in states of transition—on the threshold of what it means to be human, without gender.