Joana Couto attended the Ginasiano Dance School and ArtEZ University of Arts in the Netherlands. As a performer, she worked with Guy Nader & Maria Campos, Helder Seabra, Roberto Olivan, Victor Hugo Pontes, Christine Hassid, Gilles Baron, São Castro & António Cabrita, among others. She started teaching in 2020, being invited to teach classes/workshops in Portugal, Bulgaria, Israel, The Netherlands and Spain. As a choreographer, Joana created If only this was about food, her solo Sinto muito; and Apneia, her most recent work in co-creation with Leo Calvino. With Beatriz Sarmento she co-creates the multidisciplinary initiative Plataforma Súbito and the Órbita Residency Program, which had already 5 editions and supported more than 40 emerging artists. Co-creates the Deseclipse conversation cycle. 

Leonardo Calvino (pseudonym of Iuri Martins) is self-taught and has had a multidisciplinary career, including martial arts, music, comic book writing, circus, and is currently dedicated to dance and magic as a research area. In 2020, he took the FAICC course and the PULSO course at the Instável Centro Coreográfico. As creator, the works Cegos do Castelo, Meeting the Unknown and his contemporary circus solo Inercia stand out. He co-created the circus project CHÃO and the multidisciplinary creation Personne n'est Pessoa, by Nico Pires, with which he traveled to the Avignon Festival in 2024. He co-created with Joana Couto the piece Apneia, that premiered in 2022 and is currently circulating. Since 2019, he has also worked with dramaturgy, lighting and creative support, highlighting his work in the works If only this was about food and Sinto Verdade, by Joana Couto, Mtamorfose by Catarina Feijão and Hora Vazia by José Pereira.