Looks like hell, smells like heaven, tastes like purgatory, sounds like what?

(The dream that leads to an eventual actual noise that wakens the dreamer.)

João Polido
Polido is a musician and artist who lives and works in Lisbon. From a materialist approach to sound, his work is guided by questions of cultural memory, tradition, technology, and across music history and socio-politics. His music diffuses these concerns with a personal vocabulary, setting up surreal narratives for concrete spaces. Through visual and/or sound mechanisms, Polido seeks the evanescent threshold between recognition and alienation.
Polido’s work takes the form of concerts, mixes, writings, talks, listening sessions, and exhibitions for contexts such as Batalha – Centro de Cinema, ICA London, 12th Berlin Biennale, MAAT, Sismógrafo*, NTS Radio, Sonsbeek 20->24*, Ruhr Ding*, and Spirit Shop. Polido runs the embryonic record label Projecto de Vida through which he organises events, and his music has been published under labels such as Holuzam, Bus Editions, Lynn, Left Alone, and c-.
*in collaboration with Louis Henderson

Ana Tang
Born in Macau on 25 April 1991 and currently living in Lisbon. Tang has a degree in Theatre from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. Since 2015 she has collaborated as an interpreter and performer in theatre with Teatro Praga (a company she has collaborated with regularly since 2016), Pedro Penim, Cátia Pinheiro and José Nunes/Estrutura, Tiago Rodrigues, Carlos J. Pessoa/Teatro da Garagem, Miguel Loureiro, Catarina Requeijo, Formiga Atómica and Faustin Linyekula.
In film and television, she has collaborated as an actress with Ivo Ferreira (TV series “Sul”, RTP1), Marco Martins (TV series “Sara”, RTP2), Gabriel Abrantes (feature film “A Song of Evil”), João Nicolau (feature film “Technoboss”), Pedro Cabeleira (feature film “Verão Danado”) and Hugo Pedro (short film “O Turno da Noite”).

João Abreu
Born in Guimarães, living in Lisbon. She began her degree in Multimedia Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of UL. In 2018, she completed the Advanced Creation Programme in Performing Arts at Fórum Dança, curated by Patrícia Portela.
In 2017, she joined the cast of “Despertar da Primavera, Tragédia de Juventude” by Teatro Praga. Her collaboration with the company is repeated in “Jângal” (2018), “Timão de Atenas” (2019) and “Pais e Filhos” (2021). Between 2021-22, she will take part in the show “TM” by the Belgian company Ontroerend Goed.
She is part of the cast of the short films “Cabra Cega” and “When We Dead Awaken”, by Tomás Paula Marques; “Uma Rapariga Imaterial” by André Godinho – premiered at the Curtas de Vila do Conde festival and winner of two prizes at Queer Lisboa; “Sob Influência” by Ricardo Branco – premiered at Queer Lisboa; “See You Later Space Island” by Alice dos Reis – premiered at Curtas de Vila do Conde and “Vampires in Space” by Pedro Neves Marques, Portuguese representation at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Guilherme Leal
Born on June 17th, 1996 in Portugal. He began his artistic training at the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional and finished at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Leal has danced for Vasco Wellenkamp, Allan Falieri, Tom Collin, Margarida Belo Costa, Companhia de Évora, Vortice Dance Company, Teatro Praga, Companhia Paulo Ribeiro, Luiz Antunes, São Castro and António Cabrita, Emanuele Soavi inCompany and IVONA. At the Cannes Dance Festival, he performed an extract from “A Solo for Society” by São Castro and António Cabrita. Pablo Girolami’s piece “T.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A” won the Twain Direzioni_Altre2022 and 1st Prize Jerusalem Choreography Competition awards. He works as an assistant of the choreographer Pablo Girolami on creations for the Jerusalem Dance Theatre and the Zurich Academy.