Post-show talks

Based in Marseille, Dorothée Munyaneza is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses music, song, text and movement to deal with rupture as a dynamic force. Munyaneza draws from real stories seizing body, memory and our times to create a space of resonance. Originally from Rwanda, Dorothée Munyaneza trained at the Jonas Foundation in London, and studied music and social sciences in Canterbury, before moving to France. She has collaborated with artists such as François Verret, Radouan Mriziga, Alain Mahé, Jean-François Pauvros, Robyn Orlin, Ko Murobushi, Nan Goldin,...

Bilal El Had (1991, he/him) is a Moroccan dancer and performer based in Brussels. A graduate of P.A.R.T.S., he has collaborated as a performer with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Salva Sanchis, Radouan Mriziga, Laurent Chétouane, and Maud Blandel, among others. He is currently developing his own choreographic work, focusing on the relationship between music and dance as a space where traditional forms, cultural memory, and collective imagination intersect and transform.

Sónia Baptista (Lisbon, 1973) is a choreographer, dramaturg and performer. She trained in the Contemporary Dance Performers Course at Fórum Dança and was awarded, with distinction, a Master Researcher in Choreography and Performance by the University of Roehampton, London, UK. Her work has been recognised with awards from the Ministry of Culture and the Portuguese Society of Authors (SPA). Her artistic language is multidisciplinary, blending classical texts, philosophical writing, pop culture, gender issues, and queer and ecofeminist contexts.

Born in Beirut, the choreographer and dancer Ali Chahrour creates a movement language freed from Western codes and models, reflecting his culture and the political, social, and religious context in which he lives. In an earlier series of works—his trilogy on death, Fatmeh (2014), Leila’s Death (2015), and May He Rise and Smell the Fragrance (2017)—he drew on funeral rituals, blending tradition with a striking sense of modernity. He later began a second series dedicated to love, including Night (2019), Told by My Mother (2021), The Love Behind My Eyes (winner of...

Aoaní (1984) is an actress, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and journalist. Born in São Tomé and Príncipe, she is based in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Social Communication and Journalism from FANOR, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, a Master’s degree in Theatre – Performing Arts from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema – IPL, in Lisbon, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She lived in Angola, where she worked in the media and communications field for almost a decade and...

Piny – Human being, intersectional feminist, anti-racist, environmentalist, activist. Artist, architect, performer, dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Born in Lisbon, of Portuguese and Angolan descent. She completed her degree in Architecture at FAUTL in 2007, and a postgraduate degree in Scenography in 2009. In the same year, she completed the training programme “Scenography, Dance and Architecture” in Paris at the École Nationale d’Architecture and the CND. In 2012, she completed a degree in Dance in Lisbon. Under her own name, she has created and...

Carlota Lagido worked with Meg Stuart, Joana Providência, Rui Horta, and Mark Haim in the early 1990s. Since then, and for 20 years, she danced in Francisco Camacho’s most iconic pieces, notably Dom São Sebastião and Gust. Her work as a choreographer and performer has a multidisciplinary nature, addressing themes related to identity and autobiographical contexts. Key pieces include notforgetnotforgive, ro.ger, 50 toneladas and Jungle Red. Parallel to her career as a dancer and choreographer, she is a costume designer who has worked with various contemporary...

Shahd Wadi is Palestinian among other possibilities, but the freedom is mostly Palestinian. She tries to find freedom also in what she does, travelling between research, translation, writing, curation and art consultancy. She sought her resistance through her PhD thesis in Feminist Studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, which was published in a book entitled “Bodies in a Bundle: Artistic-Life-Stories of Palestinian Women in Exile” (2017). She was the first in Portugal to receive a degree in this field. In her work she addresses the artistic body...