ARTISTIC DIRECTION Leonor Lopes
PERFORMANCE AND COCREATION A.ves, Leonor Lopes, Leonor Mendes
DRAMATURGY SUPPORT Nathalie Wiberg, Rui Lopes
IMAGE CONCEPT/ POSTER Margarida Matos

LEONOR LOPES

Leonor Lopes was born in Santarém, Portugal, and started her dance education in ballet by the age of 6. In 2017 she finished Visual Arts high school and moved to Lisbon to study at Escola Superior de Dança where she received training in contact improvisation, improvisation, composition, creation. Together with A.ves she choreographed the piece “Vêm aí os Desgraçados…” , that entered the Young Creators Contest and was selected for the cplp Bienal in Luanda. In 2019 she participated in “Para Uma Timeline a Haver” a project by João dos Santos Martins, Ana Bigotte Vieira and Carlos Manuel Oliveira. Leonor worked as a rehearsal assistant for CAMA a.c. in the piece “Num Vale do Aqui” by Daniel Matos and for Eszter Salamon in “MONUMENT 0.6: HETEROCHRONIE / Palermo 1599-1920”. Lately she has worked mostly on the accentuation and deconstruction of emphasized femininity as to create absurd characters.

A.VES

A.ves grew up nearby Almonda river and Serra D´Aire, Portugal. His training started at the age of 14 at O Corpo da Dança – Torres Novas (director and teacher: Marta Tomé), took performing arts intensives in Minde at Festival Materiais Diversos with Miguel Pereira and Teresa Silva (2015) and with Marcelo Evelin(2016). Performed in Ana Borralho and João Galante “Trigger of Happiness”(2017 – Alcanena), Raimund Hoghe “Momentos of Young People”(2018 – Porto) and Pedro Barreiro “Mandarim, Apóstrofe e Paciência”(2018 – Covilhã). Currently studying at the new program “Expanded Contemporary Dance” in AHK – Amsterdam. His body of work has been building itself around Contemporary Dance, Performance art, Poetry and Ecology.

LEONOR MENDES

Originally from Riachos (1999), Leonor Mendes begins her learning in performing arts there, working with Marta Tomé (dance) and Hugo Gama (theatre). Since 2017, she is enrolled in Escola Superior de Dança, Lisbon, for a bachelor degree in dance. As a performer, she has worked with the visual artist Joan Jonas, with the directors John Romão, Silvia Costa and Claudia Castellucci, and with the choreographers Amélia Bentes and Clara Andermatt (in the project P.E.D.R.A) In 2019, she begins her collaboration with the project Bal Modern, working with the choreographers Matthieu Bajolet, Ana Cristina Velasquez, Maria Clara Villa Lobos, Denis Robert, Jutta Vielhaber, Jean Michael Agius and Oonagh Duckworth. She has also collaborated in the research for the project “Para uma timeline a haver” from João dos Santos Martins, Ana Bigotte Vieira and Carlos Manuel Oliveira (2019)