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Márcia Lança was born in Beja and lives in Lisbon. In 2008 she founded VAGAR, of which she is artistic director. She has worked as a choreographer and performer in various collaborative configurations.
She moves in territories where the boundaries between the fictional and the real are tenuous and diffuse. Her interest in the poetic materiality of concrete actions and tasks is at the centre of her creative processes.
She is passionate about emerging collective compositions, thought as action and situated constructions.

Carolina Campos is Brazilian and lives between Lisbon and Barcelona.
She completed the Independent Studies Programme at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Brazil she worked with Lia Rodrigues Cia de Danças between 2008 and 2011.
Since 2013 she has collaborated intensively with João Fiadeiro in the training, creation and research of Real Time Composition.

Daniel Pizamiglio is a Brazilian, queer, migrant choreographer, performer and researcher based in Lisbon. He works in the context of dance and the performing arts in Portugal, exploring notions and practices of encounter, concrete poetry and mourning. Since 2009, he has been researching Real Time Composition with João Fiadeiro, exploring different ways of studying, practising and transmitting this methodology internationally. In 2016 she completed the Study, Research and Choreographic Creation Programme at Forum Dança (Lisbon) with the solo ‘Dança Concreta’. She has collaborated with various artists such as Andreia Pires, Andréa Bardawil, Ana Rita Teodoro, Alex Cassal, Cláudia Dias, Filipe Pereira, Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, Gustavo Ciríaco, João Fiadeiro, João dos Santos Martins, Luis Garay, Márcia Lança, Rita Barbosa, Romain Beltrão Teule and Vera Mantero. In 2023 he premiered the mourning performance ‘M’ at Rua das Gaivotas 6, in Lisbon.

Gustavo Sumpta was born in Luanda (Angola) in 1970. He lives and works between Lisbon and Berlin. He studied History at the Faculty of Letters in Porto. He took the Professional Interpreter’s Course at the Ballet Teatro Contemporâneo do Porto. He worked as an assistant and actor in several films by Pedro Costa, including ‘Cavalo Dinheiro’ (2014), ‘Juventude em Marcha’ (2006) and ‘End of the love affair’ (2003). She wrote and performed with choreographer João Fiadeiro in the performances ‘Existência’ (2002) and ‘Para onde vai a luz quando se apaga’ (2006). She taught sculpture at Ar.co in Lisbon from 2009 to 2013 at the invitation of Rui Chafes, director of the school’s sculpture programme. He has been working as a visual artist and performer since 1999.

Cláudia Dias was born in Lisbon in 1972. She is a choreographer, performer and teacher. She began her dance training at the Academia Almadense, was awarded a scholarship at the Companhia de Dança de Lisboa, completed the Contemporary Dance Performers Training Course at Forum Dança, and attended the Master’s Degree in Performing Arts at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She began her work as a performer with the Almada Dance Group. She was a member of the collective Ninho de Víboras. She collaborated with Re.Al and was a central interpreter in João Fiadeiro’s creative strategy and in the development, systematisation and transmission of the Real-Time Composition Technique. She created the pieces Feedback, E.U. (entrevista-me urgentemente), Juntem-se 2 a 2, As águias não geram pombas, Per Ti, Histo, One Woman Show, Visita Guiada, Das coisas nascem coisas, Vontade de ter Vontade, 23 + 1 and Nem tudo o que dizem tem de ser feito nem tudo o que fazemos tem de ser dito. She was an associate artist at Re.Al and Espaço do Tempo and a resident artist at Alkantara. She has published texts in the magazines Boa União and Woman On Scene and in the books Correspondencias.Bad and Escenas do Cambio. Awarded by the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Club in the Young Creators competition, 1998. Nominated for the Best Choreography Award in 2013 and 2017 by the Portuguese Society of Authors. Since 2016 she has been developing the project Sete Anos Sete Peças (Seven Years, Seven Pieces), accumulating functions of direction, creation, interpretation and training. She created the association Sete Anos.