Portuguese born, Sofia Diniz studied music and cello in Lisbon and later specialized in historical performance practice in Cologne, Germany with Rainer Zipperling (baroque cello and viola da gamba), in Den Haag, Netherlands with Wieland Kuijken and Philippe Pierlot (viola…
Daniela Viçoso (b. Faro, 1990), graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon with a Painting major (2012), later with an Illustration MA graduate degree at Kingston University, London (2015). The short story “Erasmus song” is awarded one of…
Eliseu Antunes Pereira Gomes da Silva is a concert violinist, conductor, pedagogue and PhD in Music. He’s been a juror member of numerous prestigious competitions. Eliseu is the conductor of the Oporto Youth Orchestra of Bonjóia from the Oporto City…
Elmano Sancho is bilingual in Portuguese and French and is fluent in Spanish and English. He holds a diploma in training for actors from the School of Theatre and Cinema/ESTC in Lisbon and has also studied in Madrid (at the…
Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. He is a writer and a playwright. The True Actor (published in the US by Dzanc, translation by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis) won the 2013…
Miguel Bonneville (Porto, 1985) introduces us to autobiographical works focused on the deconstruction and reconstruction of identity. His work is transdisciplinary and therefore is presented in a variety of formats: performances, drawings, photographs, films, music or artist books. His work…
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Diniz Sanchez studied dance and choreography in the Superior School of Dance and Forum Dança (Lisbon) and Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier – Mathilde Monnier (France), with a CNC scholarship (2000). Dancer/performer for several companies in Portugal,…
Lisbon and Coimbra, 1996-2000. Attended Gulbenkian’s course in ‘devising and directing theatre, live art and installation’ led by the company Third Angel (UK), Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme, Lisbon, January-May 2004. Post-graduated in Art and New Technologies, Universidad Europea…
Patrícia Portela is a writer and performance maker born in 1974, living between Belgium and Portugal. She studied set and costume design in Lisbon and in Utrecht, film in Ebeltoft, Denmark, and Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2003 she has…
