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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMERS
Check out the programmers accompanying MITbr – Platform Brazil 2024 and which festivals they represent.
Aaron Shackelford
Duke ArtsAaron Shackelford joined Duke Arts in April 2023, where he directs a multifaceted professional artist series that represents all the creative practices taking place across Duke University. These include artists working in music, theater, dance, visual, literary, cinema and experimental arts. For the past decade, Aaron has been at the forefront of integrating the arts into academic institutions and presenting experiences and artists. After several years as Director of Programming for the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts, Aaron returned to the south as Director of Georgia Tech Arts. In this role Aaron led the organization through the Covid-19 pandemic, creating the award-winning Skyline Series of outdoor performances in the middle of a parking lot and bringing innovative technology-based installations to campus. He holds a Master’s and Doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Duke Arts
Duke Arts champions an expansive and inclusive approach to the arts on campus, throughout Durham, and beyond — showcasing world-class creators and performers, cultivating artists and scholars, and supporting the creation of new works. The institution fosters the study and the expression of art at all levels, and across all forms of creative practice, including music, visual art, dance, cinema, theater, literary, and experimental arts. Duke Arts plays a critical role in building purposeful partnerships between its own campus, regional, and global audiences, and brings to life the commitment that the arts are central to Duke’s mission to engage the mind and elevate the spirit. Duke Arts Presents brings fifty professional artists and ensembles to the Duke and Durham community each year, utilizing seven venues across the campus as well as multiple spaces in the city.
Aida Tavares
Aida Tavares was deputy director of programming for ten years at Teatro Municipal São Luiz, in Lisbon, where she also served as executive director and artistic director, having fulfilled this role for eight years, from 2015 to May 2023. Since December 2023, Aida holds the position of artistic director for performing arts and thought at the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon.
The Centro Cultural de Belém
The Centro Cultural de Belém is managed by a foundation whose objective is to promote culture, developing creation and dissemination in all cultural specificities, from classical music to jazz, from theater to dance, from opera to literature, from architecture to cinema.
Alaor Rosa
Alaor Rosa is an actor, producer and curator. Artistic director of Arteviva Produções since 1987, develops projects, exhibitions and festivals. Rosa hosts the main theater, dance and music events in the Federal District. For 25 years, he was producer and curator of the Cena Contemporânea – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Brasília. He participates in meetings at markets and cultural business fairs at various festivals throughout Latin America, Europe and Asia and at international theater festivals in Brazil. In 2021, he created the Travessia – Festival Internacional de Artes Performáticas.
Travessia – Festival Internacional de Artes Performáticas
Travessia – Festival Internacional de Artes Performáticas, developed by Alaor Rosa in 2021, aims to create bridges between different countries and Brazilian states, promoting hybridism and the integration of cultural languages that merge in a context of plurality, in accord with the most recent inventions in the fields of theatricality, performing arts, visual arts, technological arts, cinema, music, video, installations, design and photography.
Américo Córdula
Américo Córdula is an actor, producer, director and cultural manager, with a master’s degree in human sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). He performed in theater shows in São Paulo from 1980 to 2000, then dedicated himself to cultural management, having participated in the management of the Ministry of Culture during the Lula (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2015) governments. Since then, he has dedicated himself to consultancy and cultural policies, the Rede Cidades Criativas (UNESCO), the creation, production and direction of podcasts. He developed series for Instituto Casa Comum such as Beleza: Um Suspiro de Esperança (2021) and Macunaíma: Um Desconcerto Rapsódico (2024). Currently, Córdula is cultural manager at the Centro Cultural do Cariri Sérvulo Esmeraldo in the city of Crato, Ceará, Brazil.
Festival Unaé
The Festival Unaé – Sonhar o Cariri, which celebrated multiple languages, in dialogue with different Brazilian artists, took place between the 26th and 29th of October 2023, at Centro Cultural do Cariri Sérvulo Esmeraldo, an equipment managed by the culture department of the state of ceará, in partnership with Instituto Mirante de Cultura e Arte. The festival reached 30 thousand people and featured more than 50 hours of programming, divided into 55 cultural and artistic activities, in a program that disseminated the diversity of the territory, promoting a generational, ancestral, traditional and contemporary meeting.
André Fisher
André Fisher is the creator and director of the Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade, coordinator of the Cultural Center for Diversity of the Municipal Department of Culture of São Paulo, director of communication and press of the São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade and contributor to national and international publications and academics related to LGBT+ culture and transmedia curation. He has a master’s degree in image and sound from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), strategic management of digital analytics from FGV-SP, digital marketing and data science from Fiap and economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has published seven books, including Manual Ampliado de Linguagem Inclusiva (Editora Matrix, 2021). Fisher is a speaker and consultant on issues related to diversity, inclusive communication and transmedia.
The Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade
The Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade is an LGBT+ cultural event held every year in November, focusing on works related to sexuality and gender identity in various forms of artistic expression. A national and international reference, Mix Brasil was born in 1993, and today it is the largest LGBT+ cultural event in Latin America. Since its first edition, it has brought the world to the forefront of artistic representations, promoting social inclusion and opening space for the expression of different lifestyles, increasing awareness of LGBT+ issues. Between films, performing arts, literature, transmedia expressions, workshops, musical shows and parties, Mix Brasil brings together thousands of people around a culture of understanding and respect, whether in physical spaces or on digital platforms.
Andréa Alves
Andréa Alves is a journalist and cultural producer. She founded Sarau Cultura Brasileira 31 years ago. Andréa is the author of two books about Brazilian music icons. Through her pleasure in music and in national culture, along with a pragmatic management side, she built a solid trajectory, achieving recognition by staging award-winning shows with an unmistakable DNA.
Sarau Cultura Brasileira
Sarau Cultura Brasileira, founded in 1992, has built a consistent curriculum in the Rio cultural market, working on research and facilitating projects to recover the work of Brazilian artists, in the most different formats, from the stage to the internet. In three decades of a virtuous cycle, Sarau produced more than 160 works, including 53 theater works, 46 music works, 21 CDs, as well as collection projects, festivals, book publications and exhibitions. The first audiovisual production came along with the pandemic: Elza Infinita. A documentary about the Brazilian singer Elza Soares, based on the play produced by Sarau in 2017. The film was a co-production with the GNT channel and was awarded by the New York Film Festival in the best documentary category.
Anna Helena Polistchuk
SESI São PauloAnna Helena Polistchuk is a cultural producer and researcher in the area of curating and internationalization of the performing arts. Currently, she holds the position of cultural activities analyst at SESI-SP, being curator, programmer and producer of the FIESP Cultural Center and SESI-SP theaters in the state of São Paulo.
SESI São Paulo
SESI-SP, in its culture management, presents a vast scope of programs that promote multiple aesthetic experiences and a broad thematic repertoire. The entity’s mission is to foster cultural diversity, democratize access to art and information, form audiences and establish continuous dialogue between work and public, community and society.
Anna Mülter
Festival TheaterformenAnna Mülter has been the director of the international Festival Theaterformen in Hanover and Braunschweig since September 2020. From 2014 to 2020, she curated the Tanztage Berlin and was co-responsible for the dance programme and theme festivals of the Sophiensæle. From 2016 to 2019, Anna Mülter was also dramaturge at tanzhaus nrw. Before that, she was on the artistic staff of the 2014 Theater der Welt festival in Mannheim and worked at Hebbel am Ufer Berlin from 2003 to 2012.
Festival Theaterformen
Festival Theaterformen has been presenting international contemporary theatre and dance since 1990. The festival debates socio-political themes in new performative forms in close consultation with the city and its residents. The annual programme, which takes place in summer and alternates between Hanover and Braunschweig, includes experimental performances, participative projects and works in the public space that aim to be accessible to a diverse public on different levels.
Anna Wagner
Künstler*innenhaus MousonturmAnna Wagner has been the artistic director and managing director of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Germany, together with Marcus Droß since September 2022. After studying theater, she worked as assistant dance curator at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and directed the dance department at Theater Freiburg, which she transformed from an ensemble company into a production platform for independent choreographers and dancers. In 2014, she moved to Frankfurt’s Mousonturm as dramaturg. There, she established ongoing working relationships with dance, theater and performance creators from the national and international independent scene. She has developed numerous special projects and festivals such as Indonesia LAB (2015), Oper Offenbach (2018) and This is Not Lebanon (2021). She is co-founder of the annual dance festival Tanzfestival Rhein-Main and was co-director and managing director of Theater der Welt 2023.
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Artist House Mousonturm) was established in 1988 as one of the first independent production houses in Germany, today it has become one of its most important and successful production centers. With a site that spans more than 4000 square meters in the historically preserved tower of the former Mouson soap factory, it focuses on the recurring exchange of artists, groups, and collectives belonging to the contemporary independent scene, both within and beyond Germany and Europe. The Mousonturm programme focuses on dance, theater, performance and music. The team of Mousonturm also understands the city and the metropolitan region as a stage, as a space for intervention and action, which they regularly make use of, play at, and explore together with the city’s residents.
Artur Ghukasyan
HIGH FEST International Performing Arts FestivalArtur Ghukasyan graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema in 1992 (acting course). He studied arts management and cultural policy in London City University, Amsterdam University and Saltsburg Academy of Arts Management and Media. Since 2003, Ghukasyan has been the founder-president of HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival, which, from 2006, is announced as the main festival in the territory of the former USSR countries — except for Moscow —, by IFEA – International Festival and Events Association. Since 2006 he has been an invited professor at London Metropolitan University and, since 2011, he has been head of arts management and cultural policy department at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema. Since 2012, Ghukasyan has been organizing HIGH STREET International Outdoor Theatre and Circus Festival in many countries.
HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival
HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival was established in 2003. The first edition was situated in Yerevan, Armenia, October 2-9. It is the flagship performing arts festival in Armenia. Over these years, more than 600 foreign companies, 7.000 participants and guests took part of the festival. The main goals of HIGH FEST are developing of Armenian performing arts, promoting cultural policy in Armenia and cultural rights of Armenian performing arts practitioners; promotion of worldwide culture in armenia and Armenian culture in other countries in the world; supporting Armenia in the process of integration between European countries in the field of culture; and setting up and implementing programmes and events in art and culture for professional artists in order to promote open and a democratic society within Armenia.
Benoît Bradel
Passages TransfestivalBenoît Bradel is an artist, director, curator and performer based in France. After creating 15 hybrid shows in which images and music play a major role, and founding the Parcours Tout Court festival in Bretagne, he has been artistic and general director of Passages Transfestival since 2019. This international transdisciplinary, transcontinental and committed festival takes place in Metz, in May, in a transborder region in the East of France. In 2017, he created The 7th Life of Patti Smith, with Marie-Sophie Ferdane, and two faithful musicians, Thomas Fernier and Seb Martel, who is still on tour today.
Passages Transfestival
Passages Transfestival carries a naturally transdisciplinary artistic project, placing innovative and multifaceted creation in first place. The festival directs its project at each edition towards an identified and remarkable geopolitical zone, whether transcontinental or trans-European. Passages Transfestival, in continuity with its origins, aims to be a space of transmission: support for projects in production & in residence and part of an international and hexagonal network of support and cooperation which rethinks its economic and social practices to be part of a process that benefits everyone.
Bia Junqueira
Arquitetura do EfêmeroBia Junqueira is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, art director, set designer, consultant, artistic director and managing partner of the creation and production studio Arquitetura do Efêmero. She lived for 11 years in France, where she worked with Bob Wilson, Tadeuz Kantor, Patrice Chéreau, Joseph Svoboda and at the Paris Opera. Since returning to the country, she has been creating works, sensory installations, scenography and art directions. She represented Brazil at the Prague Quadrennial in 2015 and 2019. She participated in UNA(S)+, an exhibition of Latin artists, with the installation Teia, which took place throughout the Centro Cultural Oi Futuro and, more recently, exhibited the installation As Paredes Têm Ouvidos, at the Mário de Andrade Library, in São Paulo. She taught at the École Supérieure du Spectacle-Paris, for Funarte, at SP Escola de Teatro, at the Academia Internacional de Cinema (AIC) and at EBAC – British School of Creative Arts. Bia participated in the The Universal Forum of Cultures 2004 and continues to participate in national and international symposiums and forums around curation, cultural cooperation, dissemination and creative spaces. Bia was a judge for the Prêmio Shell de Teatro from 2013 to 2019, and in 2013 and 2014, she was a member of the international jury for the Divine Komedy International Festival, in Krakow, Poland. Bia Junqueira is also the curator of the online festival RIOFESTIV.AL, as well as creator, general director and curator of Rio Cena Contemporânea and TEMPO_FESTIVAL.
Arquitetura do Efêmero
Arquitetura do Efêmero was born as a production company specialized in developing and realizing spatial concepts and projects in dialogues with art, architecture, the scene and the image. The research and concepts developed in their projects, as well as the relationship with the public, resulted in the creation, realization and production of multidisciplinary cultural and artistic projects, consultancies and the creation of artistic and institutional partnerships with other producers and organizations. Proposing new knowledge, tools, provoking meetings and experiences, whether in creation or for the public, are goals of the projects carried out and disseminated by Arquitetura do Efêmero. The company provides services in the area of training, planning and coordinating courses for Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). The company was founded by Bia Junqueira upon returning from France, where she lived and worked in theater, visual arts, audiovisual and events for 11 years.
Carolina Correa
Encontro Latinoamericano de TeatroCarolina Correa is an actress, director, performer, creator of the Encontro Latinoamericano de Teatro (ELA) and international curator of the Tiradentes em Cena festival. She directs, investigates and acts in autofictional works. Carolina has a master’s degree in arts from UEMG, a postgraduate degree in Teatro de los Sentidos from the Universidad de Girona, a postgraduate degree in performance and art from Faculdade Angel Vianna and a degree in social communication from PUC-MG. She is also the founder of Grupo dos Dois, by Soller Centro de Artes, international coordinator of the Corredor Latinoamericano de Teatro and international producer of FIT BH. She directed the film Ana, winner of the award for best actress and autofiction short film at the Cannes World Film Festival 2022. She has been working for over ten years in the autofiction solos Carolina, Lorca, Trombo, Roma and O(s)tras, presented in several theater festivals in Brazil and around the world.
Encontro Latinoamericano de Teatro
ELA (Encontro Latinoamericano de Teatro) takes place in the cities of Belo Horizonte and Nova Lima, in Minas Gerais — the festival has already had three editions, in 2016, 2108 and 2022, and included the participation of groups from countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Spain, Morocco, Mexico and Portugal. Created by artists and managers Carolina Correa and Tina Dias, the Encontro Latinoamericano de Teatro is organized by the groups: Armatrux, Atrás do Pano and Grupo dos Dois. ELA was born from the desire to bring together different Ibero-American theatricalities, with the aim of developing a great artistic dialogue that contributes to thinking about contemporary theater making, understanding that our diverse origins and identities have anchor points. The latest editions of the event have seen the presence of more than 20 national and international groups, totaling around 50 artists and an estimated audience of 3,000 people.
Cathy Pollini
Pensamento TropicalCathy Pollini is a dancer, choreographer, actress and artistic director of Cat40, created in Avignon, and of Pensamento Tropical, an artistic residency in the Atlantic forest of Bahia founded in 2009 with Guillaume Lauruol, where she creates individual, collective and/or participatory body practices.
Pensamento Tropical
Pensamento Tropical is an artistic residency center in the middle of the Atlantic forest, in Bahia, founded in 2009 by Cathy Pollini and Guillaume Lauruol. It is a cultural producer specializing in exchanges between Brazil and France.
Cecilia Kuska
PróximamenteCecilia Kuska is a curator and creative producer focused on the intersections of interdisciplinary and undisciplined works of cultural diversity on an international scale. She has extensive experience in developing projects carried out in asymmetric realities, along with a great interest in the visibility of inclusive and cooperative narratives. She is a founding partner and current co-curator of the Próximamente, a festival in Brussels together with KVS Theater, and co-curator and IR of Something Great Berlin. Cecilia also directs her own studio to carry out artistic projects of international cooperation and collective activism.
Próximamente
Próximamente was born in 2019 as the result of a meeting between different institutions from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Belgium (KVS), which work together as a cooperative. Partner countries collaborate as a shared curatorial voice to present proposals, selecting what they consider important to highlight about artistic work in the Latin American region today. The festival meets the needs of Latin American arts in a complex local and global context, supporting artists, cultural workers and the public, as well as taking into account the understanding of the territorial concept of Latin America as a post-colonial result, considering its cultural production as a result of certain dynamics and approaches.
Celso Curi
OFF Produções CulturaisCelso Curi is a producer, cultural manager, translator and journalist. He has worked in the cultural area since 1968 and has directed OFF Produções Culturais since 1991. He is the creator and editor of OFF Guia de Teatro SP and creator of Espaço OFF, a venue for theatrical and musical performances, which operated from 1979 to 1993. Curi has also worked as: director of the Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, belonging to the Secretariat of Culture of the State of São Paulo, from 2013 to 2015; president of the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean (La RED, 2011-2013); president of the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA, 2018-2020); consultant for the Southern Exposure program for the selection of Latin American shows for tours in the USA (2017); consultant for American Dance Abroad (2013); and programming consultant of PAMS (Performing Arts Market in Seoul, 2014). He was also a member of the jury of the 8 Festiwal Boska Komedia (Kraków, Poland, 2015) and curator of the Curitiba Theater Festival (2008-2015), the Cena Brasil Internacional Festival (2012-2014), the Festival Internacional de Teatro São José do Rio Preto (FIT, 2015-2016) and of the Reside FIT, in Recife, since 2018.
OFF Produções Culturais
OFF Produções Culturais was created in 1991 as a continuation of Espaço OFF, one of the most important cultural spaces in the city of São Paulo in the 1980s and 1990s. OFF’s focus is the production and circulation of new languages and the exchange of works and avant-garde artists.
Claudio Fuentes San Francisco
Santiago OffClaudio Fuentes San Francisco is a director, teacher, playwright and cultural manager. He is also the founder and director of La Fulana Teatro & Gestión, a company that has been developing continuous artistic work for 18 years. As part of his management work, Fuentes founded and developed important cultural projects such as the international festival Santiago Off, the contemporary drama cycle La Rebelión de las Voces and several intermediation and cultural association programs in Chile and other countries.
Santiago Off
Santiago Off’s mission is to democratize access to culture and artistic development in Chile. The festival aims to bring art and its manifestations closer to citizens, managing new means and new platforms and opportunities for training, visibility, validation, circulation and promotion for national creators and creations.
Corinna Hamuza
Kampnagel International Summer FestivalKampnagel International Summer Festival
Cristina Planas Leitão
Teatro Municipal do Porto and DDD Festival Dias da DançaCristina Planas Leitão is a choreographer, performing arts programmer and teacher. Currently, she is co-artistic director of Teatro Municipal do Porto, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança and of the artistic center CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva. Cristina’s integrated curatorial practice focuses on the development of sustainable creative formats, new narratives and relationships of care within the performing arts, with a growing interest in experimental practices that are politically and socially engaged. As a choreographer, she researches themes connected with social and political movements related to the performing body. She created, with Jasmina Krizaj, the shows The Very Delicious Piece and The Very Boring Piece. She also created the plays Bear Me, FM [featuring mortuum] and UM [unimal]. As a teacher, she has been teaching since 2010 on flying low and passing through techniques through a somatic and unconventional approach, as well as workshops around the content of her artistic practice. She has also supported several projects as a dramaturgy and strategy consultant. Cristina is a mentor and regular teacher at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.
Teatro Municipal do Porto
The Teatro Municipal do Porto (TMP), through its two centers, in Rivoli and Campo Alegre, presents a multidisciplinary program, open to a wide range of audiences. With a clear mission to co-produce, present and support the local, national and international artistic community, TMP aims, above all, to consolidate itself as a platform for the development of effective relationships and sustained creative practices, in a constant triangulation between artists, public and the place of the institution.
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança
Held annually since 2016, at the end of April, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança is an international contemporary dance event. DDD’s programming, which includes shows, workshops, open classes, conversations and parties, attests to the aesthetic and thematic diversity of contemporary dance, opening up to an idea of expanded choreography and defending that artistic vision makes a great contribution to society of today.
Dagmara Gumkowska
Silesian Theatre and OPEN THE DOOR International FestivalDagmara Gumkowska is a programmer, theatre curator, promoter, businesswoman, manager of artistic and cultural events and fundraiser. She also has experience in public relations and marketing activities and numerous educational projects. Currently, Dagmara works as international cooperation manager and businesswoman at the Silesian Theater (Teatr Śląski), located in Katowice, Poland, and as curator of the OPEN THE DOOR International Festival, organized by the Silesian Theater. Since 2023, she has been part of the advisory board connected to Katowice’s candidacy process for the title of European Capital of Culture 2029. For many years (until March 2017), she was artistic director of the TEATROMANIA International Festival in the Polish city of Bytom.
Silesian Theatre
The Silesian Theatre in Katowice is the largest drama stage in Upper Silesia, the historical-cultural border region of Poland and the Czech Republic. There are works of Polish and world classic and modern drama, devised works, guest performances (from Poland and abroad) of various styles and genres, performances for young people and children, concerts, interdisciplinary events presented. In the year 2018 the company started a new project: OPEN THE DOOR International Festival.
OPEN THE DOOR International Festival
The OPEN THE DOOR International Festival brings together works by disabled artists and artists from disadvantaged groups and artists from disadvantaged groups, projects raising important social issues and outdoor events. The festival, which aims to reach new people, is open to different forms of theatre, showing its diversity — modern, experimental and traditional styles, as well as various genres, including dance.
Dane de Jade
Festival Internacional de Máscaras do Cariri (FIMC)Dane de Jade is an actress, researcher and cultural manager. Doctoral student in artistic studies, theatre and performance at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, she is also the creator of the Mostra Sesc Cariri and the Festival Internacional de Máscaras do Cariri (FIMC). Dane is also the founder of the NGO BEATOS and curates festivals, public notices and cultural projects. She was municipal secretary of culture in Crato, Ceará, between 2013 and 2016, and curator of the 2023 Prêmio Shell de Teatro.
Festival Internacional de Máscaras do Cariri (FIMC)
The Festival Internacional de Máscaras do Cariri (FIMC) takes place every two years and brings together national and foreign groups and artists. The event’s program consists of theatrical and dance presentations (traditional and contemporary), formative activities and musical shows that contribute to the construction and dissemination of cultural identities. The FIMC carries out an important formative action through the Mascaramento na Cena Expandida colloquium, a space for dialogue to bring together groups from Brazil and abroad who carry out research related to masking, ensuring a space for exchange and exchange of ideas about the scenic mask. The festival strengthens new ideas, concepts and methodologies, considering the dimension of training of its participants in complementarity with enjoyment.
Daniele Sampaio
SIM! CulturaDaniele Sampaio is a producer, cultural manager, curator and cultural policy researcher. She founded SIM! Culture and is a doctoral student in performing arts at the University of São Paulo (USP). Daniele has produced the actor Eduardo Okamoto since 2006. She approved several projects and participated in important national and international festivals — in countries such as Mozambique, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Kosovo, Morocco, Scotland and Poland. Since 2022, she has been part of the curatorial team at the Festival de Curitiba. She is the author of the books Agentes Invisíveis e Modos de Produção nos Primeiros Anos do Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (2020) and Elaboração de Projetos para o Desenvolvimento de Agentes e Agendas (2021), both by Editora Javali. In 2023, she launched, in partnership with Javali, the editorial label SIM! Edições, aimed at publications focusing on cultural production in contemporary Brazil.
SIM! Cultura
Based in the district of Barão Geraldo, in Campinas, São Paulo, SIM! Cultura is coordinated by producer Daniele Sampaio and focuses on performing arts. It operates from three complementary pillars: managing the artistic trajectory of actor Eduardo Okamoto (since 2006); the qualification of cultural agents through courses, lectures, consultancies and a project incubator; and leading publications on cultural production and management in contemporary Brazil.
David Cabecinha
AlkantaraDavid Cabecinha is, since 2018, co-artistic director of Alkantara, a cultural association dedicated to the development of performing arts, based in Lisbon, Portugal. He has worked regularly in the performing arts field and cinema since 2008, as dramaturgist, co-script writer, actor, producer and director’s assistant. Cabecinha has worked with Portuguese theatre companies such as mala voadora and choreographers such as Dinis Machado, Rita Natálio and João dos Santos Martins, in addition to the film director Jorge Jácome. From 2016 to 2017, he assumed the artistic direction of Temps d’Images Lisboa. He holds a degree in theatre, acting, from the Lisbon Film and Theatre School.
Alkantara
Alkantara is a Lisbon-based performing arts organisation dedicated to supporting artists and audiences in engaging with critical ideas in arts and society. Its annual festival — Alkantara Festival — brings people together for dance, theatre, live performance, parties, and conversations around the work of artists from Portugal and abroad. Like its predecessor Danças na Cidade (1993-2004), the festival coproduces and presents Portuguese and international artists of different generations and is an important meeting place for arts professionals. All year round, Espaço Alkantara is a place for residencies and research, meetings, workshops, and other public programmes.
Dries Douibi
KunstenfestivaldesartsDries Douibi has Belgian-Algerian nationality and lives and works in Brussels. He studied visual arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent and followed the preparatory program for master in philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2017 he has been the performing arts programmer at the Beursschouwburg (Brussels), where he conceptualizes and organizes focused programs and mini-festivals (The Future is Feminist, Mind The Gap, Poetic Practices). Since 2012 Douibi has been co-programmer and curator of the Bâtard Festival, supporting young European creators in their artistic development. In recent years he was involved in numerous artistic projects and productions, both as a curator (Lesfest, INFINI 1-15) and as a playwright (In Many Hands, by Kate McIntosh, Mikado Remix, by Louis Vanhaverbeke, and Cuckoo, by Jaha Koo).
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts is an international arts festival dedicated to contemporary creations: theatre, dance, performance, film, and visual arts. It takes place in May of every year and lasts for three weeks, with presentations in some 20 theaters and arts centres, as well as in public spaces throughout Brussels. The Kunstenfestivaldesarts comprises a selection of artistic works created by Belgian and international artists: remarkable new projects that translate the artists’ personal visions of the world, communicating them to audiences prepared to challenge and broaden their perspectives. The Kunstenfestivaldesarts is a cosmopolitan city festival. Part of a complex network of communities, it serves to increase the porosity of territorial, linguistic, and cultural divides. The Kunstenfestivaldesarts happens in Brussels, the only city in Belgium inhabited by the country’s two largest language communities. Several Flemish and French-speaking institutions are involved in the project. Fundamentally conceived as a bilingual undertaking, the festival contributes to encouraging dialogue. The Kunstenfestivaldesarts also runs a series of encounters and workshops alongside its program that are aimed at putting this artistic project at the heart of the city, inspiring the people who live there.
Dyego Monnzaho
Fundação de Educação, Turismo, Esporte e Cultura de Boa Vista (FETEC)Dyego Monnzaho is a producer, cultural manager, teacher, curator, programmer and performing arts artist. For more than 15 years, he has been developing research, training and work in the areas of theater, dance, music, visual arts and performance. Monnzaho worked in the management and production of important projects for artists, institutions and festivals such as: Festival Breves Cenas de Teatro, Festival Mormaço Cultural and Festival Passo a Paço. He has accumulated important national and international awards and notices. For eight years, he was director of culture and events at the Municipal Foundation for Culture, Tourism and Events of Manaus City Hall. He has a master’s degree in performing arts from Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal, with a focus on management, curating and art criticism. He is currently president of the Boa Vista Education, Tourism, Sports and Culture Foundation (FETEC), in Roraima.
Fundação de Educação, Turismo, Esporte e Cultura de Boa Vista (FETEC)
FETEC (Fundação de Educação, Turismo, Esporte e Cultura de Boa Vista) is a foundation within the structure of the Municipality of Boa Vista, in Roraima, with indirect administration that plans, creates and manages all actions and resources in the municipality destined for tourism, sports and cultural activities. FETEC is responsible for developing and executing cultural projects for the city of Boa Vista, recovering the traditions of Roraima, encouraging and promoting cultural production through actions and programs aimed at cultural segments — such as performing arts, visual arts, cinema and literature —, aimed at for the city’s culture, as well as its role to recognize and guarantee traditional knowledge, knowledge and expressions and the rights to cultural assets and manifestations originating from its people.
Ema Boswood
TransformEma Boswood is producer for Transform. Based in Leeds, in the United Kingdom, she is responsible for programming and delivering their biennial international performance festival. Ema began her career in the arts at the Marlborough Theatre in Brighton (UK).She coordinated the first New Queers on the Block tour, an LGBTQIA+ artist and community development programme and network across the UK. She delivered several micro-festivals at the Marlborough, including Young, Queer & Skint and Radical Softness, and was responsible for the co-curation and delivery of programmes including Fat Pride and Trans Pride Season. Following this she relocated to Cambridge (UK), where she worked as arts producer at Cambridge Junction from 2019 to 2023. In this role, she focussed on artist development, commissioning and the co-curation of multiple seasons of performance, presenting contemporary theatre, performance art, dance, circus, spoken word and family work. She is a founding member of Cambridge based queer collective Club Urania who host performance cabaret/club events to counter the lack of LGBTQIA+ spaces in the city. She relocated to Leeds to deliver the latest edition of Transform in 2023.
Transform
Transform is a biennial festival centring bold, brave, vivid & socially-conscious international performance. Based in the city of Leeds, in the United Kingdom, the event focuses on reimagining what theatre can look like and do, celebrating the independent and adventurous spirit of the city, reflecting the socially conscious north, and connecting creatives and audiences to the world. The festival showcases Transform creations and premieres, community co-creations concocted throughout the year, and an international performance programme of contemporary theatre, performance and dance.
Eric Bart
Printemps des ComédiensSince 2017, Eric Bart has held the position of programming director at Printemps des Comédiens, a festival set in the French city of Montpellier. Previously, from 2011 to 2016, he directed the programming at the Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe, in Paris. Bart began his professional career in theater in 1989 as assistant director at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, where he remained until 1999.
Printemps des Comédiens
The Printemps des Comédiens was born in 1987 and has gradually established itself as an essential festival for international theatre in France. In the heart of the Occitanie region, the Printemps des Comédiens Festival welcomes the biggest European productions. Every year, it plays host to masters of the international stage, as well as emerging artists and and Europe’s leading theatre schools, making it one of Europe’s as one of the most important venues for the creation, production and for creation, production and training for audiences and artists in Montpellier. Directed by Jean Varela since 2011, each year the festival welcomes in June, in the fields of theatre and live performance, 45 shows, 130 performances and an audience of nearly 40,000 spectators.
Ester Campabadal Calvera
Catalan Arts - Instituto Catalán de las Empresas Culturales (ICEC)Graduated in geography and history (human geography), in 2004 she joined ICEC, the Instituto Catalán de las Empresas Culturales (Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies), of the culture department of the Generality of Catalonia, where she currently works as a performing arts technician in the area of cultural markets, developing programs to promote the internationalization of Catalan theatrical production. Previously, she worked at the Centre de Titelles de Lleida and the Bulevard Espectacles theater production center in the same city. She was part of the founding team of the international short film festival inCURT, which held three editions in Lleida and three in Tarragona.
Catalan Arts – Instituto Catalán de las Empresas Culturales (ICEC)
Catalan Arts is the brand of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies (ICEC), an organization dependent on the government of Catalonia for the export and internationalization of Catalan cultural and creative companies from different sectors: performing arts, visual arts, digital culture, books and music. Through ICEC’s network of offices in Europe (Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris), the institution works on several lines of action to connect, advise and help creative companies and improve their positioning in national and international markets.
Fábio Pascoal
Festival de Teatro do Agreste (FETEAG)Fábio Pascoal is the creator and producer of the Festival de Teatro do Agreste (FETEAG), playing a fundamental role in promoting the performing arts in the Caruaru region, in addition to acting as pedagogical coordinator of the theatrical initiation course, held annually by Teatro Experimental de Arte, group recognized as a Living Heritage and Cultural Point of Pernambuco, operating since 1962. For over 40 years, Pascoal has been dedicated to training new talents. Furthermore, he actively participates in the hall of international dance programmers, being a reference on the digital platform Mercadança, where he stands out for his commitment to global cultural exchange.
Festival de Teatro do Agreste (FETEAG)
The Festival de Teatro do Agreste (Agreste Theatre Festival, FETEAG), held since 1981, is a cultural initiative that has established itself as a significant milestone in the decentralization and democratization of access in the theatre scene of Caruaru, in Pernambuco. Created to celebrate and promote the performing arts, FETEAG is much more than an annual event, it is a point of convergence for local and international artists, providing a unique platform for creative expression and the dissemination of contemporary artistic diversity. Since its creation, FETEAG has stood out for offering diverse and inclusive programming, seeking to expand the limits of its activities. FETEAG’s commitment to artistic training is evident in its quest to offer transformative experiences for the community. Workshops, lectures and workshops are integral parts of the annual event’s programming, consolidating the festival as an important opportunity to update and expand cultural boundaries.
Felipe de Assis
7Oito Projetos & ProduçõesFelipe de Assis is a scene artist, researcher and curator. He is a doctorate student and has a master’s degree in performing arts from PPGAC–UFBA. Collaborates with independent curators: Programa Rumos Itaú Cultural (2017-2018), Edital Oi Futuro (2017, 2018 and 2021), MITbr, curatorship linked to the Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo (2018 and 2019), MEXE (Portugal, 2019) and FNT Guaramiranga (2017 and 2018). In 2023, he was artistic director of Futuros – Arte e Tecnologia. Assis is co-creator of the Bahia International Festival of Performing Arts (FIAC Bahia), in which he has served as general coordinator and curator since 2008. He is also a member of the Nucleus of International Performing Arts Festivals in Brazil since 2009, of the Network of Theater Festivals of Brazil since 2015 and Colectivo Utópico, a platform with artists from Argentina, Switzerland and Brazil. With 7Oito Projetos & Produções, he organizes festivals (Ponto FIAC and FIAC Bahia since 2013), coordinates cultural mediation projects, directs, produces and distributes theater and dance shows, in addition to providing consultancy for festivals and teaching curatorial courses in performing arts.
7Oito Projetos & Produções
7Oito Projetos & Produções is a Brazilian company operating in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador that develops innovative projects in the realm of performing arts, in the areas of training, dissemination, research and creation. 7Oito’s projects bring local uniqueness into communication with the world and aim to transform people and realities by dialoguing with artists, communities, organizations and national and international institutions. The company provides consultancy, cultural mediation, research and curation services for artists, institutions, events and performing arts festivals.
Francesca Corona
Festival d’Automne à ParisFrancesca Corona is an artistic director, curator and producer of contemporary performing arts. From 2005 to 2013, she worked at PAV, an independent organization of promotion and production based in Rome, Italy, curating several projects in support of the emerging artistic community and promoting Italian performing arts abroad. Since 2007, Francesca has worked alongside many Italian artists, conceiving and experimental together different performing formats, as well as curating the international projects of some among them. In 2006 she co-founded the multidisciplinary Short Theatre Festival in Rome, being later appointed as its co-director, running the festival till 2020. Together with the team, she contributed to designing its programs and formats by renewing the dialogue with the Italian and international art scene and conceiving new partnerships with different Roman cultural realities. Since July 2021 she is the artistic director of Festival d’Automne à Paris, in France, a festival dedicated to the contemporary arts and convergence of different disciplines.
Festival d’Automne à Paris
For over 52 years, the Festival d’Automne à Paris has supported artists by producing and presenting their works, in a spirit of loyalty, openness and discovery. From September to December, the festival offers over 70 events per edition bringing together theatre, dance, music, visual arts, performances and cinema, more than 200,000 people each year. A key player in artistic creation in France and worldwide, the festival invites artists from all over the world to present their creations in Paris and Ile-de-France. It devotes major programs to the performing arts of countries such as Korea, South Africa, China, Brazil, India, Iran and Japan. The Festival d’Automne à Paris regularly collaborates with the leading international festivals and major cultural institutions. In a desire to share and transmit, the event is strengthening its policy of accessibility to contemporary creation for all audiences, engaging new partnerships with health, education and the social fields and develops in particular its actions towards students and young people.
Francisco Pellé
Grupo Harém de TeatroFrancisco Antônio Vieira, better known as Francisco Pellé, was born in Teresina, Piauí. He is an actor, cultural producer and one of the founders of the Grupo Harém de Teatro, formed in 1985 together with Arimatan Martins and Airton Martins. In 1998, Pellé was selected to participate in the 1st International Stage of Lusophone Actors, in Portugal, an action carried out by Cena Lusófona, in partnership with Expo-98, Anatel and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture — the participation in the program was a highlight important for the rise of his career, allowing Pellé to also get closer to the members of Teatro Extremo de Portugal, where he performed works such as A Fronteira, Mal de Amor and O Beijo no Asfalto. Contact with the Portuguese group also resulted in co-productions and training that were extended until the emergence of the Festival de Teatro Lusófono (FESTLUSO), created in 2008 in Teresina by Pellé, after returning from Portugal, with the aim of presenting and discussing shows originating in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Grupo Harém de Teatro
The Grupo Harém de Teatro emerged in Teresina, Piauí, during Chico Pereira Week, in December 1985, in honor of the great nationally recognized playwright from Piauí. It is a non-profit cultural association. In 1997, the company was awarded the Lusophone Merit Award, granted by the Luso-Brazilian Foundation for the Development of the Portuguese Language in the World, from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. In 1992, the group staged the play Raimunda Pinto, Sim Senhor!, by Francisco Pereira da Silva, known as Chico Pereira, achieving great critical and public success and accounting for more than a thousand performances in Piauí and in several Brazilian capitals. The play participated in four national festivals, receiving 14 awards, in the most diverse categories, such as actor, direction, music and supporting actor. In 28 years of existence, it has developed more than 25 shows. Since 2008, it has produced the Festival de Teatro Lusófono (Lusophone Theater Festival – (FESTLUSO).
Frédéric Poty
La ManufactureFrédéric Poty was born in 1966 and jumped on stage at the age of 11, where he stayed on it until 2000, when he chose to devote himself exclusively to writing and directing, renouncing being an actor. In 1980, he became the youngest student of the La Comédie de Saint-Étienne, one of the last to benefit from the knowledge of the director Jean Dasté. He opened, in 1985, in Saint-Etienne, a small theater, the Coconut Tree. In 1989, he went to Lille where he joined Dominique Sarrazin until 1992 with the theater of Decouverte and the Salamandre. In 1992 he joined Marseille the company l’Equipage and in 1994, he became artistic director and led it on the roads until 2003. In 2004, after a Mexican tour, he took the reins of Villeneuve en Scène Festival, in Avignon, which he directed for ten years. He left in 2015 to direct the Zygomatics of Fos-sur-Mer. In 2016 he joined the puppeteer Ezéquiel Garcia-Romeu as general manager and prod director and accompanied the creations all around the world until July 2023. Poty is one of the founders of Alliance of Distributor PADA. He founded the agency You Are Up to Prod and supported different artists such as Irina Brook, Patrick Masset, David Bursztein and Moler Wetherell. Curator for La Manufacture, he is also project manager of Avignon Festival of Skills, a second chance school based on art as an integration tool. Frédéric Poty was honoured as Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, by the French Ministry of Culture in 2015.
La Manufacture
Since 2001, La Manufacture has promoted a different approach to peripheral culture for artists. The project aims to bring to light a new governance, new creative, inclusive and participatory, unique and contemporary, hybrid, performative paths, some of which are presented within the scope of the international festival La Manufacture, which takes place annually in the summer, in July, allowing visibility public, professional and in important media, in addition to wide distribution. La Manufacture works in the disciplines of performing arts, visual arts, performance but also the urban, rural and industrial heritage of the territory.
Geoffroy Faribaut
CarcajouGeoffroy Faribault co-founded in 2013, with Andréane Leclerc, the non-profit organization Nadère Arts Vivants, interdisciplinary creation and production company, based in Montreal, and which has been a significant player in the arts scene. Beyond his roles as secretary and board members, positions held with distinction until 2021, Faribaut distinguished himself through his indispensable contributions to market development, reservation management, administration, production, financing, and the local, national, and international expansion of Nadère arts vivants until December 2023. His ambition revolves around fostering enduring collaborations with artists, presenters, producers, and cultural diplomacy actors worldwide. What particularly captivates him is the facilitation of encounters between artistic professionals and global audiences through performances, collaborations, workshops, and artistic events. Since 2014, Faribaut has traversed the globe, participating in festivals, markets, and artistic conferences across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Spearheading the touring successfully of scenic works by Andréane Leclerc/Nadère Arts Vivants, he covered a vast territory, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Japan, Egypt, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Czech Republic. In 2024, he co-founded Carcajou in Montreal, a non-profit organization offering multidisciplinary arts services, alongside Julie Brisson and Yves Lévesque.
Carcajou
Carcajou, a Montreal-based non-profit organization specializing in multidisciplinary arts services, is dedicated to championing the growth, visibility, and dissemination of performing arts across local, national, and international platforms. Through strategic collaborations with contemporary artistic companies in the circus, dance, performance, theatre, and music, Carcajou actively works to enhance the connection between artists and audiences, nurturing diversity and fostering artistic innovation. Carcajou envisions contributing to a world where performing arts occupy a central and pivotal role in society. The organization is driven to construct a dynamic bridge between artists and global audiences, promoting enduring artistic collaborations, inspiring creativity, and playing a crucial role in the perpetual evolution of the contemporary cultural landscape. As a key influencer in the field, Carcajou seeks to broaden its impact, fortify partnerships, and act as a catalyst for the global advancement of performing arts. To fulfill its mission, Carcajou engages in the following activities: market development and promotion, export initiatives for Canadian artists worldwide, import initiatives for worldwide artists in Canada, international showcase production, consulting and support services, workshops and training.
Gilsamara Moura
Festival Internacional de Dança de Araraquara (FIDA)Gilsamara Moura is a dance artist, cultural project consultant, director of Grupo Gestus and creator of the Escola Municipal de Dança Iracema Nogueira, in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil. She works as a dancer and teacher in several countries. She is the curator and coordinator of the Festival Internacional de Dança de Araraquara (FIDA) with Ailton Krenak, and the ORIzzontale: Incontri per Estar, held in Brescia, Italy. Gilsamara has a PhD in communication and semiotics from PUC-SP, with research in public policies in dance, and a post-doctorate in dance and politics from Université Côte d’Azur. She is also vice-director of the School of Dance at the Federal University of Bahia, coordinator of the EAD (distance education) dance collegiate at UFBA, leader of the ÁGORA Research Group: Ways of Being in Dance (UFBA-CNPq) and professor at the Federal University of Bahia. She is also a guest professor at the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro, in Manta, Ecuador, at the Instituto de Bellas Artes, in Asunción, Paraguay, at the Université Côte D’Azur, in Nice, France, and at the Escola Superior de Dança, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Festival Internacional de Dança de Araraquara (FIDA)
The Festival Internacional de Dança de Araraquara (FIDA), with 23 years of history, is a public policy program in the municipality of Araraquara and the only one in Brazil. FIDA inaugurated a horizontal and emancipatory proposal in the ways of doing dance. The history of the event is made up of shows, tables, courses, artistic residencies and training actions in several cities in São Paulo. The festival has followed a conceptual line since 2017, the year in which artist Gilsamara Moura returned as director and was invited by mayor Edinho Silva. FIDA changed the dance paradigms in the country with regard to cultural citizenship, the democratization of knowledge and social insertion, stimulating other public policies such as the creation of the first EAD (distance education) dance degree outside of Bahia. Even with dance bringing together other scenic languages, FIDA works on artistic debordering, with transartistic collaborations that provoke promising dialogues, as seen in FIDA’s lives in 2020 and 2021, and in the 2022 revival edition. Since then, FIDA’s curatorship is shared with Ailton Krenak, indigenous leader, writer, thinker and member of the Academia Mineira de Letras, in partnership with Gilsamara Moura.
Giovana Soar
Festival de CuritibaGiovana Soar is an actress, director, translator and curator. She has a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from PUC-PR since 1991, with a qualification in theater direction. Giovana received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theater from Paris III University – Sorbonne Nouvelle. Between 1999 and 2002, she was part of the programming team at Teatro Alfa in São Paulo. From 2017 to 2022, she coordinated the “Interlocuções” Exhibition within the Curitiba Festival. She was artistic director of Mostra Novos Repertórios in 2017 and 2018 and a member of the Brazilian Theater Company between 2004 and 2023. Today, she works as curator of the Festival de Curitiba and is a judge for the Shell Award in the national highlight category.
Festival de Curitiba
Since its creation, in 1992, until today, the main reason for the existence of the Festival de Teatro de Curitiba (Curitiba Theater Festival) was to bring to the capital of Paraná, productions of shows that are references in Brazil and that, prior to the founding of the event, were not performed in the city due to the lack of scenic circuit. Over the years, the project was expanded and increasingly became a reference on the festival circuits and, today, is seen as one of the most important cultural events in Latin America. Edition by edition, the festival has become more comprehensive and a great showcase of the Brazilian theater scene. The Curitiba Theater Festival has always featured companies, directors, actors and the entire creative chain of its teams — with names that are now references in the country. Many of these actors emerged in the same decade and became professional, opening spaces and building careers at the same time as the festival grew. Currently, we can say that, due to its importance and scope, the history of the Curitiba Theater Festival is linked to the history of Brazilian theater itself over the last three decades. The approximate numbers that the festival adds show its magnitude. The event estimates that, on average, 3,000 artists from all states in Brazil attend the festival each year, with more than 1,500 show sessions in rooms and on the streets, in more than 60 spaces. Until the 2023 edition, more than 1.7 million people attended the festival. The Curitiba Festival has the fundamental role of encouraging the public to attend theaters throughout the year, encouraging them to realize the importance and intangible good that art brings to everyday life.
Grzegorz Reske
Spring Performing Arts FestivalGrzegorz Reske is a producer, dramaturg and curator of performing arts. Born in Lublin, Poland, Reske had been involved for many years in the development of independent stage art. This includes many years of collaboration with Provisorium Theatre and other makers. Between 2012 and 2017, together with Marta Keil, he was responsible for the program of the Konfrontacje Festival. They continued collaboration, as ResKeil, over projects Meet the Neighbours (Labirynt Gallery, Lublin), Common Ground (season of Komuna/Warszawa; together with Tim Etchells) and Sunny Sunday (performance by Lin Majdelanie and Rabih Mroue). In the summer 2021, he took over the artistic directory of Spring Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Spring Performing Arts Festival
Spring is an annual ten days long intensive, Utrecht based performing arts festival. The event is locally focused and at the same time globally oriented. For more than a decade of its existence in its current form, Spring had been always focused on bringing most advanced experimental voices in performing arts from all around the world, and at the same time supporting Utrecht and Dutch based artists in further development and internationalisation of their careers. Every year over 25 adventurous and urgent performances from both near and far that dare to ask questions about the state of the world. During Spring, makers and a curious audience meet for exchange, discussion, inspiration and fun. Throughout a year, Spring stays involved in numerous local and integration networks, supports development of artists both be coproduction involvement as well as mentoring, From 2024 on, Spring will also facilitate studio space — small residency infrastructure next to festival office.
Guilherme Silva Filho
Festival do Teatro Brasileiro e Movimento Internacional de DançaGuilherme Silva Filho is a journalist with a specialization in art criticism from the Federal University of Bahia. Filho has already worked in the newsrooms of TVs Bandeirantes and Globo, in Salvador, and Apoio, Globo and Record, in Brasília. He is assistant director of the theatrical shows of Bahian Fernando Guerreiro, as well as mentor, curator and artistic director of the Festival do Teatro Brasileiro since 1999. He also works as national and international curator of the Movimento Internacional de Dança and as artistic director of music projects Identidade Brasileira e Tabuleiro BA, a Bahia de Todos os Sons. Filho is a founding partner of Instituto Bem Cultural and of Alecrim Produções Artísticas.
Festival do Teatro Brasileiro (FTB)
The Festival do Teatro Brasileiro (Brazilian Theater Festival) is a prominent project for the circulation of performing arts in Brazil. The 21 editions of the FTB promoted the national circulation of dance, theatrical and circus productions from ten Brazilian federative units to audiences in 14 states.
Movimento Internacional de Dança (MID)
The Movimento Internacional de Dança (International Dance Movement) is held in the Brazil’s federal capital, Brasília. The MID is a comprehensive project, with a strong appeal to the population, with great potential for raising awareness among new audiences. The festival brings together the most diverse segments of dance and society in artistic, sociocultural, educational, training, audience qualification and national and international exchange activities.
Hugo Navarro Zuñiga
Matucana 100Matucana 100
Matucana 100 is a private, non-profit cultural society, which aims to develop cultural actions and manifestations, allowing access to people of all conditions, and actively participate in the development and improvement of cultural and artistic skills and hobbies. The fundamental task of Matucana 100 is to generate spaces for contemporary culture, trying to make the artists’ work visible and bring them closer to the public.
Iva Horvat
Art RepublicIva Horvat is a university professor of kinesiology, dancer, choreographer and stage director in dance and theater. She founded, together with Elise Garriga, Art Republic, an agency focused on strategies and mobility in the performing arts. Iva is also a mentor and teacher in management and distribution, guest professor at HKU, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. She is the main mentor for the Grand Theater Groningen’s producer development program. He has already presented the workshop “How to internationalise your project-landscapes and strategies in performing arts” at festivals and different spaces such as Santiago a Mil (Chile), Santiago Off (Chile), Dramatic Arts Center (Iran), Institut del Teatre (Spain), HKU (Netherlands), Glej Theater (Slovenia), Danseu Festival (Spain), Scena Europa (Italy), COPRODAC (Mexico), Dferia (Spain) ArteCale (Spain), MITsp (Brazil), Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Greece), FITEI (Portugal), IETM (Portugal), IETM (Ukraine), Cena Contemporânea (Brazil), Cambio Festival (Brazil), Porto Alegre em Cena (Brazil), Tempo Festival (Brazil), FIAC (Brazil), SIN Cultural Center & MU Theater (Hungary), Teatros del Canal (Spain), Kunstenfųdesarts CIAS (Belgium), Grand Theater Groning (Netherlands), Nau Ivanov (Spain) and Teatro Abadía Madrid (Spain).
Art Republic
Art Republic is an agency specializing in creative strategies — for original and innovative artistic projects — and connections for international performing arts tours.
Jessie Mill
Festival TransAmériques (FTA)Jessie Mill is a co-artistic director. As a dramaturge and artistic advisor for Festival TransAmériques (FTA) from 2014 to 2021, she has developed a sophisticated understanding of Quebec’s dance and theatre practises as well as their ties to the global performing arts scene, which she has followed closely over the past 15 years. In June 2021, driven by a collective endeavour, together with Martine Dennewald, she became co-artistic director of FTA. She developed the FTA Playgrounds, and created the FTA Clinics in 2016. This artistic support programme designed to benefit the local theatre and dance communities quickly went global (France, Germany, Italy, Flanders), bringing together a large international community of dramaturges. In 2020, Jessie co-created and hosted the FTA-produced podcast Habiter la Vie. She also co-edited the book FTA: Nos Jours de Fête, published with Somme Toute in 2018. Fostering close ties with local artistic communities, Jessie Mill supports various theatre and dance projects as a dramaturge. She has been a long-time collaborator of the pan-African festival Les Récréâtrales, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where she provides guidance to young artists as part of the LABO ELAN programme.
Festival TransAmériques (FTA)
The biggest performing arts festival in North America, the Festival TransAmériques (FTA) is a driving force for the promotion of contemporary theatre and dance. FTA delves deep into artistic disciplines, probing their limits in its quest for bold, outstanding artistic voices. Its policy is a pact with the present to support creative artists by allowing artistic exploration, as well as presenting and co-producing contemporary theatre and dance pieces, works that reinterpret the world we live in, that shed light on our times. Featuring shows from all over the world, FTA mirrors political and social movements of our era, as echoed in striking and essential works of art. With its featured presentations and the FTA Playground series of related activities, FTA is an aspirational force that creates synergies between the arts, communities and festivalgoers.
Joachim Gerstmeier
International Foundation Siemens StiftungJoachim Gerstmeier, dramaturge and curator, is currently head of arts and culture at the International Foundation Siemens Stiftung, based in Munich, Germany. He studied literature, theatre studies and philosophy in Munich, Vienna and Berlin, and has worked as a dramaturge at theatres in Germany and as a curator and organizer of performing arts programs in Europe and Latin America. In addition, he was a jury member in numerous national and international funding programs, advisory board of the Goethe-Institut and guest lecturer for theater studies at Universities in Germany. As a project director at the foundation Siemens Stiftung, he initiated theme-based projects such as Powers of Speech, the program series Espacios Revelados/Changing Places, the platform laescuela.art or the academies Panorama Sur, Movimiento Sur, and Experimenta Sur.
International Foundation Siemens Stiftung
The non-profit foundation Siemens Stiftung is committed to sustainable social transformation in the areas of education, arts and culture and basic needs. It jointly develops programs and platforms with partners in Germany/Europe, Africa and Latin America. One focus of the arts and culture work area is the development of experimental projects in the performing arts in Latin America and music in Africa that deal with contemporary issues. Challenges of sustainability, participation and social cohesion are addressed from contemporary artistic perspectives. Current programs in Latin America are the Espacios Revelados/Changing Places series on abandoned buildings in cities, the laescuela.art platform on art and education and the co-production series and work space Terreno Común.
Joan Negrié
FITT Noves DramatúrgiesJoan Negrié is a Catalan actor and producer. He worked with directors such as Calixto Bieito, Sergi Belbel, Javier Daulte, Xavier Albertí and Carme Portaceli. Furthermore, he has directed the independent theater hall Trono de Tarragona for 15 years, a space for creation and contemporary theater that, in 2023, was considered by specialized critics as the best private hall in Catalonia. There, Negrié is responsible not only for programming, but also for production. Since his creation, he has produced at the Trono de Tarragona 25 contemporary theater shows that received various awards and traveled throughout Spain, Argentina and Italy. Since 2011, Negrié is also the artistic director of FITT Noves Dramatúrgies, a international festival of new dramaturgies in non-conventional spaces where shows by young and established companies are not only shown, but also offers artistic training and meetings with international programmers.
FITT Noves Dramatúrgies
O FITT Noves Dramatúrgies is an annual festival that takes place in Tarragona, Catalonia, and aims to unite established companies and creators with young promises in the performing arts. The city’s Roman past makes it the ideal setting for contemporary creation. Non-historical and unconventional spaces such as the amphitheater or the catacombs of the Roman circus become scenic temples for companies presenting theater, music, dance, site-specific installations, storywalkers and performances. In addition to focusing on the performing arts, FITT also offers artistic training for all audiences, taught by the scheduled companies, as well as meetings with programmers to establish synergies and generate good international circulation of the shows.
João Fernandes Neto
Centro Cultural Casarão de IdeiasJoão Fernandes Neto lives in Manaus, Amazonas. He has worked for 25 years in the areas of management, direction, production and other technical functions. He directed and worked for ten years at Cia. De Ideias with theater shows and then in the dance group. With the company he made several national and regional tours with training in performing arts. Currently, in addition to teaching undergraduate courses at the School of Arts and Tourism, Neto works as coordinator of the postgraduate course in management and cultural production at the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas. He has participated in several national and international festivals as a curator, with shows and in the programming. He is the director and programmer of the festivals: Mova-Se Dance Festival, Te Encontro na Barroso Music Festival, Centro Literary Festival and Cine Casarão Film Festival. Neto has maintained the Centro Cultural Casarão de Ideias in Manaus for 13 years.
Centro Cultural Casarão de Ideias
Centro Cultural Casarão de Ideias, located in Manaus, Amazonas, is a cultural space that for 13 years has enabled the enjoyment, promotion and dissemination of different languages. It is a unique space in the capital of Amazonas and, today, is a reference in the city and the rest of the country. By bringing together different artistic manifestations, Casarão has become a unique space for the presentation of local and national groups and companies. The social role of Casarão is of fundamental importance, its actions are planned for the entire population so that the community in general can be present, consuming art and culture.
Jorge Valdívia
Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA)Jorge Valdívia is executive director of the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA). His work is centered in promoting diversity and equity through arts advocacy, public engagement, and social practice. Prior to joining CLATA, Valdivia was director of performing arts for the National Museum of Mexican Art. He also previously served as general manager of Radio Arte WRTE 90.5FM, a youth-driven community broadcasting station. There he founded Homofrecuencia, the first Spanish language LGBTQ radio show in U.S. history. Valdívia is a Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame Inductee (2009) for his work in bringing visibility to Chicago’s LGBT Latin community through arts and media. Valdívia has served as a panelist, juror, and presenter for various foundations and organizations including: the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, The McCormick Foundation, and Latinos Progresando’s Mex Talks, among others. Valdívia holds a bachelor of arts in arts administration & cultural Policy from DePaul University and a master of arts in public policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA)
Founded in 2016, The Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) is a leading advocate organization for Latin theatre in Chicago. CLATA advocates for and supports emerging and established local Latine theater creators and companies to build a more equitable theater landscape. By presenting national and international Latine theater we bring visibility to our rich cultural heritage. CLATA has three signature programs: Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, an annual, citywide festival showcasing Chicago’s Latine theater artists and companies alongside top Latin artists from the U.S. and Latin America, Destinos Al Aire, a free outdoor one day family festival that brings performing arts to Chicago Latin communities with the goal of making the arts accessible to everyone, and Inicios: Chicago Latin Playwright Festival, an annual festival dedicated to elevating and promoting Chicagoland area Latine playwrights. We work to: cultivate a diverse and inclusive community of Latino theatre artists, producers, and audiences, showcase the rich cultural heritage of Latino theater through first voice productions and educational initiatives, and advocate for the recognition and equitable support of Latino theater as an essential component of Chicago’s arts landscape.
Julia Gomes
Cena CultJulia Gomes is a producer which collaborates with the programming of Núcleo dos Festivais Internacionais de Artes Cênicas do Brasil, SESC (Serviço Social do Comércio), Consulado Francês de São Paulo, among others. In 2011, she was awarded with the title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France.
Cena Cult
Kasia Tórz
Holland FestivalKasia Tórz is a writer, researcher and programmer. Since 2022 she is programming director dance and theatre of Holland Festival, the oldest and largest international performing arts festival in the Netherlands. Between 2007 and 2011 she collaborated artistically with the Polish urban art group Twożywo exploring the political and poetic potential of public space. At Malta Festival Poznań (2008-2019), she developed an international dance and theatre program. Concurrently (2007-2017), at the Polish Audiovisual Institute, she curated projects proposing a new approach towards the archives and critical artistic practices in the field of digital culture. Between 2019-2021 Kasia was in charge of artistic development of Needcompany, a Brussels based artists collective. She holds a master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Warsaw, PhD at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw and is alumni of a postgraduate program a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels. As a writer Kasia conducted her academic research about Gisèle Vienne, concluded in a doctoral thesis (2021): The Posthuman Theatre of Gisèle Vienne. Recently, as a dramaturg, she worked with Kinga Jaczewska on her dance piece BRUT (2024).
Holland Festival
Holland Festival is the largest international performing arts festival of the Netherlands and one of the oldest festivals of Europe. The festival will celebrate its 77-year anniversary in 2024. It takes place every year, in June, in and around Amsterdam, at various locations, both indoors and outdoors, both large-scale and intimate. The festival presents groundbreaking shows by creators from all over the world and new developments in the performing arts: from theatre, dance, music, musical theatre and opera to multidisciplinary forms, and crossovers with visual art, digital art, photography and film. Since 2019, the festival has been working with associate artists. They show their own work and explore opportunities for in-depth programming and a long-lasting connection between the artists and the city. Previous associated artists include Anohni (2023), Angélique Kidjo and Nicolas Stemann (2022), Gisèle Vienne and Ryuichi Sakamoto (2021), Bill T. Jones (2020) and Faustin Linyekula and William Kentridge (2019). The associate artist for the 77th edition of the Holland Festival is the Brazilian theatre director, filmmaker and writer Christiane Jatahy.
Katerina Evangelatos
Athens Epidaurus FestivalAthens Epidaurus Festival
It is the main cultural organization in Greece and one of the oldest continuously running festivals in Europe. For 68 years, the Athens Epidaurus Festival has hosted some of the greatest music, dance and theater artists on the international and local scene, in collaboration with the most prestigious Greek and international organizations, attracting large audiences from all over the world. Until 2005, the festival took place exclusively in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus and the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus. In the summer of 2006, five new theater stages were opened in the Peiraios 260 industrial precinct, which has since emerged as an important springboard for contemporary art. Festival-specific artistic productions and performances are also presented elsewhere in Attica and in different locations as part of the event.
Kathy Van den Bossche
Théâtre KVSKathy Van den Bossche started working for KVS in 1999 at the communication department, shortly before the renovation of the old theatre. In 2002, under director Jan Goossens, Kathy became head of the communication, press and planning departments and was the first female member admitted to the decision making “staff”. The new location in the heart of Molenbeek brought challenges and opportunities. The “feared” location in a poorly reputed part of town kept away the traditional theatre audience, stimulating us to reach out to the Brussels multi-ethnic communities. That completely changed our way of programming and communicating. From now on artists from diverse origin were to be seen on stage, speaking multiple languages (surtitled in Flemish, Dutch and English). After moving back to the city center in 2005, KVS continues staging dancers, musicians and actors that look familiar to the audience with an emphasis on performers from the African diaspora and from the Middle-East. On demand of Jan Goossens, Kathy switches to a programming function and continues to do so in 2016 when Michael De Cock becomes director. Since 2018 Kathy is the coordinator of the artistic staff, now composed of dramaturges Gerardo Salinas and Dina Dooreman.
Théâtre KVS
KVS is Brussels’ Flemish city theatre and has existed since 1852. Between 2000 and 2005, the old building was renovated and expanded with another new construction and an extra performance venue. In 2016 Michael De Cock took over the steering wheel at KVS. He makes it into a gender-diverse, intergenerational and intercultural ensemble and theatre. KVS increasingly wants to be a platform by, for and of the city. A meeting point, where people and networks can intersect and interweave, and a starting point, thoroughfare and finish line for diverse theatre projects. KVS has an open ensemble of theatre-makers, performers, directors, choreographers and authors. At KVS, they develop both their own personal work and shared projects, plus cross-pollination over periods of years. Michael and his team invest strongly into the development of international contacts. New ties with world cities like Istanbul, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Kinshasa are formed. KVS artists showcase their work worldwide, and more international programming takes place at the theatre. KVS intends to be a place of mental and physical encounter, an urban artery running from tradition to the future.
Lea Loeb
Zürcher Theater SpektakelLea Loeb is a swiss-argentinian dramaturg and curator. Since 2019, Loeb has been working as a programmer and assistant artistic director of the international performing arts festival Zürcher Theater Spektakel. In addition to her curatorial work she teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts. Loeb is founder and co-director of the interdisciplinary residency program Cima Città in the Ticino Alps. Loeb studied philosophy in Buenos Aires and Zurich, earned a bachelor’s degree in theater dramaturgy and a master’s degree in transdisciplinary studies. Lea Loeb has worked as a dramaturg for several companies of the independent Swiss performing arts scene and was in-house dramaturg at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich and Südpol Luzern. With the curator’s collective Friction, Loeb directed the renowned Perla-Mode and curated the artspace Nordflügel at Gessnerallee. She co-founded and co-directed the independent music and performance festival Perlaton for seven years.
Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Zürcher Theater Spektakel is the largest international festival for contemporary performing arts in Switzerland. The festival was founded in 1980 and has been held every August for three weeks in a park on Lake Zurich ever since. The very broad program includes around 40 projects by international contemporary dance, theater and performance artists. In addition to very well-known international names, Zürcher Theater Spektakel also presents formats for emerging artists and immersive, site-specific works such as installations, exhibitions, as well as concerts, talks, discussion formats, workshops, etc. In addition to the main program, the festival presents a broad, cost-free family program with street art, concerts and late night formats in the open air. The festival is financed by the City of Zurich and is mainly a presenting festival, with only a few productions and co-productions each year. Zürcher Theater Spektakel collaborates closely with other European festivals and institutions to make the tours of non-European artists more sustainable.
Lorenzo Papagallo
Dance Festival ESCENA PATRIMONIOLorenzo Papagallo is a cultural manager, artistic director of the Dance Festival ESCENA PATRIMONIO for the UNESCO Spanish World Heritage Cities and performing arts associate curator of several institutions in Spain and abroad among which stands out the Performing Arts Fair dFERIA for San Sebastian City Council. He has a degree in translation and interpreting and postgraduate studies in international relations, corporate social responsibility and cultural project management from several European academic centers. He is based in Madrid since 2009 collaborating as associate curator and artistic coordination of theatre and dance for major festivals and seasons in Spain (Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, Festival de Otoño, Teatro Español y Naves del Español en Matadero, Teatro Victoria Eugenia Donosti, MEETYOU Festival Teatro Calderón Valladolid, Festival 10 Sentidos Valencia and Festival ACTUAL Logroño) and abroad (Wiener Festwochen, GIFT Festival Tblisi, Neuss Shakespeare Festival, Electrotheatre Stanislavski Moscow, LA ESCENA Los Angeles, REGARDING Festival Tel Aviv and Fabbrica Europa in Florence) as well several institutions and private organisations at international level.
Dance Festival ESCENA PATRIMONIO
dFERIA, the Performing Arts Fair of Donostia/San Sebastián, is an unmissable event and a clear reference point for performing arts professionals in Spain. Promoted in 1988 by the San Sebastian City Council and Donostia Kultura, the San Sebastian fair is firmly committed to artistic quality in the selection and presentation of the theatre and dance shows presented. dFERIA, which is associated with the Coordinadora de Artes Escénicas del Estado (COFAE), is a contemporary, innovative, committed, varied and innovative fair that continues to strengthen its Latin American and European markets. At the same time, it is an extraordinary meeting platform for different agents in the sector, which promotes multiple possibilities for the exchange of experiences and artistic contracts. With the aim of dynamising the performing arts market, mediating and interrelating its agents and providing novelty and innovation, it generates, directly or indirectly, an important volume of business. Each edition of dFERIA revolves around a thematic axis that becomes the backbone of the exhibition and parallel activities.
Luís Alonso Aude
Aude ProduçõesLuís Alonso Aude is a theater director, actor, researcher and cultural producer. Artistic director of the Festival Internacional Latino-Americano de Teatro da Bahia (Bahia International Latin American Theater Festival), the FilteBahia, he graduated from the Escola Nacional de Artes and from the Instituto Superior de Artes de Havana, in Cuba. Aude has a degree in literature from the State University of Bahia, as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in performing arts from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He has also been a permanent member for 19 years of the multicultural theater research group Bridge of Winds, directed by Iben Nagel Rasmussen, director of the Oco Teatro Laboratório, the Núcleo de Laboratórios Teatrais do Nordeste-Norte, the Colóquio Internacional Cênico da Bahia (CicBahia) and the Boca de Cena Magazine. With articles published in several magazines specialized in performing arts, Aude is also the author of the book Corpo Zero. Energy and Presence in the Construction of the Theatrical Body. He has given lectures, courses and presentations in Latin America, the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. He has also translated several books on Latin American dramaturgy and Latin American theater theory, with emphasis on Cenários Liminares and Corpos sem Luto, both by Ileana Diéguez Caballero.
Luísa Rodrigues
Feria de Artes Escénicas de Treinta y TresLuísa Rodrigues has 13 years of experience in public management and usually carries out work related to cultural promotion. Luísa was director of culture at the department of Treinta y Tres, in Uruguay, between 2015 and 2019. She is a political woman and a physical education teacher as well. She worked at the University of the Republic, has a master’s degree in education and a diploma in cultural and heritage management. She is currently general director of economic development for the municipality of Treinta y Tres.
Feria de Artes Escénicas de Treinta y Tres
The Treinta y Tres intendancy is the executive body of the departmental government of the municipality of Treinta y Tres, one of the 19 administrative divisions of Uruguay. Its main function is the administration and management of the department’s public resources, as well as the implementation of policies and programs that promote the economic, social and cultural development of the department.
Luiz Bertipaglia
Festival Internacional de Londrina (FILO)Luiz Bertipaglia is an actor, theater director and cultural producer. Since 2000, he has actively participated in the organizing team of the Londrina International Festival (FILO), of which he has been curator since the 2003 edition, replacing Nitis Jacon as the event’s artistic director. A journalist graduated from the State University of Londrina, he was a press officer and writer for institutional and advertising newspapers. He is president of the Associação dos Amigos da Educação e Cultura do Norte do Paraná (Association of Friends of Education and Culture of Northern Paraná), the entity that maintains FILO. He was a guest curator at several festivals and exhibitions such as the Itajaí National Theater Festival and the Isnard Azevedo Festival. He was also curator of the CCBB International Theater Exhibition in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, from 2004 to 2012. Bertipaglia edited the book FILO 40 Anos – Registro Histórico. He also worked as director and supervisor of several theater shows in the Londrina region, including Nas Alturas and Hangar 14, by Grupo Mezanino de Teatro. He has participated in several evaluation committees for municipal, state and national projects.
Festival Internacional de Londrina (FILO)
The Festival Internacional de Londrina (Londrina International Festival, FILO) was born in 1968. It started as a local show, then a regional one and, in 1988, it became an international theater festival. Today, its story can be told by thousands of theater groups and other arts that participated in the event’s programming. FILO hosted the most important names in national and international theater, reaching an increasingly broad and loyal audience, strongly influencing the cultural, educational, tourist and economic development of the city, state and region. It hosted the first and only public session of the International School of Anthropological Theater (ISTA), conducted by Eugenio Barba, outside Europe. It expanded its operations across Londrina and the region towards marginal and vulnerable populations through socio-cultural projects, aiming to maintain a permanent dialogue with various communities and specific social sectors in the municipality, advocating inclusion through cultural production and building, at the same time, at the same time, a network of transcultural relationships. Each year, FILO proposes a dialogue with the most different audiences — from children to adults —, interfering in the city’s daily life and provoking new thoughts and creative questions, thus forming a captive and demanding audience, constantly instigated by new stimuli. In addition to occupying Londrina’s theaters, the festival presents a large number of outdoor shows, in local squares and parks.
Magda Bizarro
Festival d'AvignonMagda Bizarro graduated in chemistry and was involved in scientific research, previously to her work in the performing arts. During the 90’s, she collaborated with several Portuguese theatre collectives as a producer and stage photographer. Magda co-founded Mundo Perfeito in 2003, where she was involved as one of the leading creative contributors in more than 30 creations. Besides developing artistic ideas for some performances, she has worked on set design, costumes, communication and dramaturgical development. From 2015 until 2021, she was the deputy artistic director at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (TNDM II) in Lisbon, directed by the author and director Tiago Rodrigues, where she developed the emerging artists and international artistic program and built an extensive international network. She was also responsible for developing international projects in the frame of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, overseeing the participation of TNDM II in apap — advancing performing arts projects. Magda is a recurrent presence in jury panels like Bolsa Amélia Rey Colaço, Theatre Dramaturgy Laboratory, Bolsa Espaço do Tempo/La Caixa, among others. She was one of the curators of the Portuguese platform PT.21. She also organised the national and international tour of plays produced by Mundo Perfeito and TNDM II, being a regular presence in the most prestigious European festivals, being present in festivals and theatres in countries such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States of America. Recently, Magda Bizarro was appointed as one of the programming directors of Festival d’Avignon.
Festival d’Avignon
Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, the Festival d’Avignon is one of the world’s most important contemporary performing arts events. Every year in July, Avignon becomes a city-theater, transforming its architectural heritage into various majestic and surprising performance venues, welcoming tens of thousands of theatre lovers of all ages. The festival succeeds in bringing together a popular audience and cutting-edge international creation. Avignon is also a state of mind: the city is an open-air forum where festivalgoers meet and discuss shows sharing their experiences as spectators. During a month, everyone can have access to vibrant and contemporary performing arts. The programme includes shows, but also readings, exhibitions, films, and debates, all of which provide an insight into the world of the invited artists and intellectuals. Every evening, there are one or more openings, making Avignon a place of artistic creation and adventure both for artists and spectators.
Marcelo Castillo
GirartSince 1986, Marcelo Castillo has worked as a cultural manager in the public and private sectors. He is currently an international consultant on cultural management and policies and creative economy. Castillo is general director of the Performing Arts and Music Market of Argentina (2010-2024) and executive director, producer and actor of Teatro la Cochera since 1984. As an actor, he has participated in the creation of more than 20 shows with national and international presence. In addition, he participates as a teacher, project advisor and creator of artistic and cultural events at local, national and Latin American levels. He has participated and actively participates in more than 350 artistic festivals, forums, fairs and cultural markets.
Girart
GIRART is Argentina’s first cultural market dedicated to performing arts and music. It is produced every two years in the city of Córdoba by Girart Puerta al Mundo and the Associação Teatral la Cochera. Since 2010, it has promoted the dissemination of Argentine cultural enterprises and created distribution networks at national and international level. GIRART stands out for its innovative character and commitment to new and experimental productions. Offers the NEXO program for networking and business.
Marcelo Damián Zamora
Virtual Núcleo Artístico BinacionalVirtual Núcleo Artístico Binacional
Virtual Núcleo Artístico Binacional is a dance company based in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
Maria Gabriela Antunes Azevedo
CCBB – São PauloKnowing the transformative potential of culture in each person’s reality, Banco do Brasil has invested in the sector for more than 35 years through the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB) units. The institution is currently located in four major Brazilian capitals — Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte —, where it has received more than 100 million visitors, carrying out more than 4,500 projects in the areas of performing arts, music, exhibitions, cinema and educational programs, consolidating the entity as one of the main cultural centers on the Brazilian and international scene. At CCBBs, the public has access to national and international artistic-cultural manifestations that seek to reflect and instigate new perspectives on the world through events in different areas and languages.
Maria Stella Paixão
CCBB – São PauloKnowing the transformative potential of culture in each person’s reality, Banco do Brasil has invested in the sector for more than 35 years through the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB) units. The institution is currently located in four major Brazilian capitals — Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte —, where it has received more than 100 million visitors, carrying out more than 4,500 projects in the areas of performing arts, music, exhibitions, cinema and educational programs, consolidating the entity as one of the main cultural centers on the Brazilian and international scene. At CCBBs, the public has access to national and international artistic-cultural manifestations that seek to reflect and instigate new perspectives on the world through events in different areas and languages.
Mariana Soares Ribeiro
Instituto SOMAMariana Soares is a specialist in management, public policies and international cultural cooperation and, for 20 years, has worked on initiatives in this field in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. She is director of the Instituto SOMA – Cidadania Criativa, manager of international cooperation projects for the Ibermuseus Program and consultant, researcher and content curator. She consults on the design and management of public policies and has collaborated with international organizations such as UNESCO, UNDP, OEI and the British Council. She was undersecretary of cultural development and promotion policies for the government of the Federal District (2015-2018), general coordinator of international promotion and diffusion at the Secretariat of Creative Economy of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil (2013-2015), coordinator of international projects and curator of Cena Contemporânea – Brasília International Festival (2011-2013), in addition to being responsible for the international area of Portada Comunicación y Cultura in Barcelona, Spain (2007-2011). She is a doctoral student in international relations at the University of Lisbon, a master in development, society and international cooperation at the University of Brasília (2018-2020), a specialist in culture and development at the Complutense University of Madrid (2017), a master in historical culture and communication at the University of Barcelona (2007-2009) and specialist in cultural management and international cooperation from the University of Barcelona (2010)
Mariana Wainstein
Festival Internacional de Artes Escénicas de UruguayMariana Wainstein is national director of culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. Assumed artistic direction of the International Festival of Performing Arts in 2022 and will be artistic director of the 2024 edition. Mariana is trained in performing arts at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, with a diploma in cultural management and cinematographic studies at the University of New York, and has subsequently mastered democratic leadership and advanced studies in political communication at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Marina D’Lucca
ProteatroMarina D’Lucca was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in dance, theater and public relations, in addition to having a postgraduate degree in cultural management and administration. For several years, she has dedicated her main activity to cultural management and the production of shows and artistic events. Marina works as production coordinator for artists, cultural personalities and independent theater, dance and performance groups, as well as carrying out the executive production of shows, coordinating local and international tours and presentations. She participated in the development and management of cultural enterprises in public and private areas of Buenos Aires, including: Teatro Margarita Xirgu, Centro Cultural Borges, Dirección de Cultura de La Plata, Prodanza and Usina del Arte y Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación. As a teacher, she taught subjects on producing shows, organizing events and understanding the arts at UNSAM, UADE and UBA universities. She is currently executive director of Proteatro, of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires and an independent producer and manager.
Proteatro
MDL cultural production and management: is the production company managed by Marina D’Lucca, focused on the development of artistic projects, monitoring, production and management of art and culture. It has a special focus on theater, dance performance and contemporary aesthetics. It also specializes in providing programming content in cultural spaces, theaters, festivals and international events. Based in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it maintains exchanges and co-productions with the rest of the world, supporting artists and proposals that wish to circulate and interact with different audiences.
Mark Yeoman
Noorderzon FestivalMark Yeoman grew up in Britain and studied history at St. Andrews University, in Scotland, but since 1985 has lived and worked in Germany, Belgium, France, Spain and, since 2001, in the Netherlands. After initial years as an actor, specialising in public and found spaces, from the 1990s he branched out into freelance directing, writing and producing. Since 2001, Mark has been artistic director of the Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts in the Netherlands, one of a growing number of key European festivals pioneering new ways of presenting contemporary theatre and dance, within a broad-base accessible environment. Since 2016, he is also artistic director of the Grand Theatre in Groningen, a mid-size producing theatre focusing mainly on younger independent theatre and dance makers. Outside his regular activities, Yeoman was also the first intendant (2014-2016) on the Fast Forward programme at the Fonds Podiumkunsten/Dutch Arts Council, establishing international co-producing opportunities for outstanding younger generation artists. He was also a mentor for international programmers on the EU-funded Space programme.
Noorderzon Festival
The Noorderzon Festival was inaugurated in 1990 and is currently in its 34th year. It is an annually recurring multi-disciplinary festival with a strong international profile, and serves as an important European platform for the presentation of new international contemporary performance and artists. Around 30 main performances, over a period of 11 days, are complemented by a large variety of extra activities, music and visual arts projects resulting in an intense social and cultural event welcoming around 150.000 visitors each year.
Mirian Gomes
CCBB - BrasíliaCCBB – Brasília
Knowing the transformative potential of culture in each person’s reality, Banco do Brasil has invested in the sector for more than 35 years through the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB) units. The institution is currently located in four major Brazilian capitals — Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte —, where it has received more than 100 million visitors, carrying out more than 4,500 projects in the areas of performing arts, music, exhibitions, cinema and educational programs, consolidating the entity as one of the main cultural centers on the Brazilian and international scene. At CCBBs, the public has access to national and international artistic-cultural manifestations that seek to reflect and instigate new perspectives on the world through events in different areas and languages.
Monique Cardoso
Festival das Artes Cênicas – Cena CearáMonique Cardoso is a scene artist, researcher, producer and cultural manager. She is part of the Ceará collectives Grupo Ninho and MANADA Teatro. PhD student in performing arts at the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts at the Unicamp Arts Institute and master in arts at the Postgraduate Program in Arts at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Monique has a degree in marketing, with a specialization in cultural management. She is also a founding partner of Ato Marketing Cultural, president of Kariri Cultura, Esporte e Educação and director of the Festival das Artes Cênicas – Cena Ceará and Além da Rua – Festival Internacional de Arte Urbana. She also works in the management group of Ponto de Cultura Casa Ninho and Escola Carpintaria da Cena – Formação Livre em Teatro e Tradição.
Festival das Artes Cênicas (FAC) – Cena Ceará
The Festival das Artes Cênicas (FAC) – Cena Ceará is a project based on three pillars: continued training, business roundtable and show exhibition, with a focus on the sustainability of Ceará artists and collectives in theater, circus, dance and performance. On an ongoing basis, throughout the year, FAC – Cena Ceará carries out actions in the field of production and management, remotely, as a way of guaranteeing the participation of artists, producers and managers from all over Brazil. In its exhibition of shows, it presents to the public and to the various managers and invited programmers from all regions of the country a mosaic of arts production in the scene developed in Ceará. In 2024, the event will take place in the Cariri region, and the program will feature shows, performances, short scenes, creative business fair, business roundtables, musical shows, cultural mediations, “terreiradas”, book launches and a tour circuit for points of culture, group headquarters and independent spaces in the region.
Natália Alvarez Simó
Centro de Cultura Contemporânea Conde DuqueNatália Alvarez Simó is currently artistic director of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque (Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center), in Madrid, Spain. Previously, she was director of Teatros del Canal, a contemporary performing arts center, and Centro de Danza Canal, between 2016-2019. From 2007 to 2016, Natália worked at the Iberescena technical unit, a program to support the creation of an Ibero-American performing arts space. Between 2009 and 2016, she was coordinator and curator of the performing arts department at the Reina Sofia Museum. She was part of the Leim project, on leadership in dance management in Europe, and coordinates the EDN – European Dance House Network. Natália has a degree in art history, a PhD in art history and research aptitude from the University of La Laguna. She also has a master’s degree in cultural planning and management from the García Cabrera Foundation and an MBA in cultural companies and institutions from the University of Salamanca. She participates in several performing arts juries, in addition to giving lectures and teaching activities.
Centro de Cultura Contemporânea Conde Duque
The Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque (Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center) aims to provide access to contemporary culture through diverse and innovative programming. A municipal public center for the dissemination and sharing of artistic and cultural practices, open to all Madrid citizens. Conde Duque’s objective as a contemporary culture center is to support the creation, dissemination and investigation of the most current artistic and cultural languages, through accessible and quality programming. With a regular and long-term vision, the space presents a hundred activities each season, in courtyards, auditorium, theater, conference room, projections and residential and exhibition spaces. A center that also houses proposals for the neighborhood where it is located and the city of Madrid. Conde Duque promotes thinking opportunities to think about the world we live in hand in hand with theater, dance, words, performance, musical language, audiovisual and visual arts, with the aim of creating a context of thought and reflection, through thematic lines that each season suggests.
Nayse Lopez
Panorama FestivalNayse López has been artistic director of the Panorama Festival since 2005. She has been a guest curator for several other projects and has a long career as a speaker on cultural management, art and media, having participated in hundreds of international events. In 2020, she directed Panorama Luto, a live tribute to the victims of Covid-19 in Brazil, which runned 51 hours live on YouTube and brought together more than 300 artists and activists reading texts about mourning, art and freedom. In 2021, Nayse was artistic director of the international platform Panorama Raft and, in partnership with 17 international institutions, co-produced 15 projects to be seen online in times of pandemic. Between 2022 and 2023, she was artistic director of Panorama 30 Anos, an event that celebrated the festival’s three decades. She is now preparing the 2024 edition of Panorama, is a guest fellow at the online research project La Escuela and guest curator of the Lyon Biennial Forum 2025 project.
Panorama Festival
The Panorama Festival is the oldest and most acclaimed professional dance festival in Brazil, celebrating its 31st edition in 2024. Founded by Lia Rodrigues in 1992, for three decades it has supported, promoted and represented Brazilian dance, performance and body arts in Brazil and around the world. Thousands of artists and hundreds of thousands of people passed through the event’s stages, galleries and public or alternative spaces, in show projects, workshops, artistic residencies and international cooperation. Rio, national and international programming of the festival mixes artistic excellence with a policy of democratizing access and diversity.
Nicholas Bone
The Magnetic NorthNicholas Bone is artistic director of Magnetic North, in Scotland, United Kingdom, and co-director of Edinburgh Performing Arts Development (EPAD). He is a director, writer and creative facilitator. His work as a director and writer includes We Will Hear the Angels, Walden, Lost in Music and A Walk at the Edge of the World. Bone co-created and directed Pass the Spoon with artist David Shrigley and composer David Fennessy. As a director he made Sex and God by Linda McLean (Magnetic North), Sunk by Ian Cameron and Sean Hay (KT Productions), London Road by Alecky Blyth and Adam Cork (Bristol Old Vic), Kora by Tom McGrath (Dunde Rep) and Osama the Hero by Dennis O’Kelly (NIDA, Sydney). As a creative facilitator, he has created and run Rough Mix, an annual multi-art form development lab, since 2006. He has also worked with individual artists from a variety of art forms to develop their practice and create new work. He worked with Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, MITsp, Baxter Theatre, La Teatreria and Pickle Factory Dance on Voices from the South. Nicholas Bone performs regularly with the movement ensemble In the Making.
The Magnetic North
Magnetic North’s work is a unique combination of making new work rooted in live performance and running innovative multi-artform artist development. The company collaborates with artists to create a wide range of new work — producing plays, music-theatre, installations, online events and films — as well as supporting hundreds of independent artists to continue developing their practice. The company is led by artistic director Nicholas Bone and producer Anna Hodgart. Based in Scotland, United Kingdom, The Magnetic North works both nationally and internationally. Through the artist development programme, the organization gives artists paid time to discuss, experiment, refresh their practice, share skills and create work through residencies, creative retreats, production support, mentoring, networking events, and bespoke attachments to the company. Productions include Pass the Spoon (an opera made in collaboration with artist David Shrigley and composer David Fennessy), Lost in Music (a new musical based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice), Sex and God, by Linda McLean, Our Fathers, by Rob Drummond, and We Are All Made of Stars (a VR installation by film-maker Marisa Zanotti and composer Matthew Whiteside).
Pau Estrem
Danseu FestivalPau Estrem is a cultural agent based in Barcelona. He has a master’s degree in European projects administration. Background in dance and theatre. He is founder and artistic director of Danseu Festival, international dance festival in Les Piles, Catalonia, supported by Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Diputació de Tarragona.
Danseu Festival
Danseu Festival is a dance and movement’ arts festival in a rural setting. Every summer it celebrates culture in Les Piles, a village with just 200 inhabitants located in Conca de Barberà, Catalonia. The festival connects over 3.000 people, arts of movement’s students and almost one hundred artists with the countryside and rural areas. Founded by Pau Estrem and Nuri Aguilar in 2013, the project emphasizes the decentralization of culture to attract and retain new audiences.
Paula de Renor
RESIDE – Festival Internacional de Teatro de PernambucoPaula de Renor is an actress, producer, curator and cultural manager. She has been director of the production company Remo Produções Artísticas since its creation in 1983. She has produced several theater shows, including three international co-productions with Portugal, Holland and Argentina. She created her own theater and managed it for 11 years, in a warehouse in the port area of Recife and also managed the Teatro Luiz Mendonça and Parque Dona Lindu, owned by Recife City Hall. Paula was at the helm, as curator and producer, of Janeiro de Grandes Espetáculos – Pernambuco International Festival of Performing Arts and Music for 17 years, and participated as curator of other Brazilian festivals in different cities. She is very active in discussions and formulation of cultural policies. She was a theater and opera representative on the State Council for Cultural Policy of Pernambuco for two terms and the first female president. In September 2018, she launched her new festival, RESIDE – Pernambuco International Theater Festival, which has already had four editions. RESIDE is part of the Center for International Performing Arts Festivals in Brazil.
RESIDE – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Pernambuco
RESIDE – Pernambuco International Theater Festival (RESIDE – FIT Pernambuco) is an annual international theater event that has already held four editions — in September, the fifth edition takes place. The festival focuses on the formation and reflection of the theater scene through artistic presentations, residencies, workshops and meetings to share experiences and knowledge, debate ideas and creative processes, as well as strengthen ties of coexistence and encourage the breaking of possible territorial barriers. and linguistics. RESIDE was created by Paula de Renor, director of Remo Produções Artísticas, a production company with 40 years of existence.
Paulo Andrezio
Festival UnaéPaulo Andrezio is an actor, producer, theater director and master’s student in the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. He has been performing in dance and theater shows since 2006. He worked as a producer and programmer at Sesc Ceará during the period from 2019 to 2023. Andrezio has a degree in theater from the Universidade Regional do Cariri and a bachelor’s degree in administration from the Universidade Norte do Paraná. He developed research that permeates the city’s artistic occupations, through the methodologies of invasion theater. He worked as an advisor at the Secretariat of Culture of Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, and artistic producer at the Secretariat of Culture of Crato, also in Ceará. Currently, he is a producer and programmer at the Centro Cultural do Cariri Sérvulo Esmeraldo.
Festival Unaé
The Festival Unaé – Sonhar o Cariri, which celebrated multiple languages, in dialogue with different Brazilian artists, took place between the 26th and 29th of October 2023, at Centro Cultural do Cariri Sérvulo Esmeraldo, an equipment managed by the culture department of the state of ceará, in partnership with Instituto Mirante de Cultura e Arte. The festival reached 30 thousand people and featured more than 50 hours of programming, divided into 55 cultural and artistic activities, in a program that disseminated the diversity of the territory, promoting a generational, ancestral, traditional and contemporary meeting.
Pedro Barreiro
O Espaço do TempoPedro Barreiro is an artist who has developed numerous works as a director, actor, scenic creator, playwright, producer, programmer and curator. In recent years, he has been interested, among other things, in thinking about performative acts as poetic generators, in experimenting with the constituent conventions of theatrical forms and in strategies for dismantling hegemonic systems in contemporary art. Since 2020 he has created and presented the performance An Artist Is Always Working without interruption. Barreiro was artistic director of Teatro Sá da Bandeira, in Santarém (2015-2017), and collaborated with Teatro Praga as programmer of Rua das Gaivotas 6, in Lisbon (2019-2022). He has been an associated artist of the Teatro Cão Solteiro company since 2020. He is currently artistic director of O Espaço do Tempo and the Portuguese Performing Arts Platform, whose next edition will take place from June 10 to 15, 2025 in Lisbon and Montemor-o- New, Portugal.
O Espaço do Tempo
Espaço do Tempo is a transdisciplinary artistic structure, founded in 2000, in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. Since then, it has welcomed and supported numerous national and international artists, being instrumental in the development of many of their works and careers. The main activity of O Espaço do Tempo has been an extensive program of artistic residencies, with a special focus on contemporary performing arts, emerging creation and critical thinking, as well as the public presentation of premieres, previews, rehearsals and open conversations. Espaço do Tempo also offers the most robust artistic creation grants in Portugal and maintains solid institutional and artistic partnerships, locally, nationally and internationally. Furthermore, O Espaço do Tempo organizes the Portuguese Performing Arts Platform, where the most relevant works of Portuguese performing arts are presented to national and international programmers and curators. This has been the most important platform for the internationalization of Portuguese performing arts, which, associated with the continuous activity of O Espaço do Tempo, has played an important role in the international journey of Portuguese artists and structures over the last 15 years.
Pedro de Freitas
PériploPedro de Freitas is a theater producer working in the development of international artistic exchange and cooperation projects in the performing arts. He has a degree in performing arts from Unicamp and completed a master’s degree in management of cultural institutions at Université Paris-Dauphine. Since 2003, he has dedicated himself to theater production. He was production director of Lume Teatro and in 2009 he founded the cultural company Périplo, through which he developed circulation projects with Brazilian and international artists such as Tadashi Endo, Gardi Hutter, Avner Eisenberg, Renato Borghi, among others, and participated in the preparation of projects to promote and internationalize Brazilian performing arts. In addition to production activities, Freitas works as a consultant and artistic curator for Brazilian and foreign festivals and cultural institutions.
Périplo
Périplo is a Brazilian artistic management company. The company’s objectives are contained in its name, as “periplus” means long journey, circumnavigation. And that’s what Périplo wants, to connect with the whole world to meet lots of people and develop exchange projects between Brazilian and international artists that allow the creation of new partnerships and opportunities for the production and circulation of performing arts works. Founded in 2009, Périplo has developed a series of partnerships with Brazilian and international artists, festivals, companies and cultural institutions that make it possible to carry out projects such as important national theatrical productions and tours by renowned international artists in Brazil such as Tadashi Endo, Gardi Hutter, Timbre 4, Avner Eisenberg, Cia do Chapitô, The Paper Cinema, among others. Currently, Périplo is dedicated to developing projects to internationalize Brazilian artistic production through consultancy and professional training.
Pedro Vilela
TREMA! e CRL – Central ElétricaPedro Vilela is an actor, director and programmer. Since 2015, he has developed TREMA!, a platform that currently connects Brazil and Portugal, through the organization of its festival, the publication of a magazine and creations in the field of performing arts. He works with CRL – Central Elétrica, a residential center with over 20 years of activity in the city of Porto, Portugal.
TREMA! e CRL – Central Elétrica
The TREME! is one of the main scenic events in northeastern Brazil, held since 2012 in the city of Recife, in Pernambuco. In its last edition in Brazil, it brought together 27 shows by artists from four countries. In 2023, it held its first edition in Porto, Portugal, signed as Quilombo_Trema!, bringing together black, racialized and indigenous artists from five different countries.
Pierre Holemans
La ManufactureLa Manufacture
Since 2001, La Manufacture has promoted a different approach to peripheral culture for artists. The project aims to bring to light a new governance, new creative, inclusive and participatory, unique and contemporary, hybrid, performative paths, some of which are presented within the scope of the international festival La Manufacture, which takes place annually in the summer, in July, allowing visibility public, professional and in important media, in addition to wide distribution. La Manufacture works in the disciplines of performing arts, visual arts, performance but also the urban, rural and industrial heritage of the territory.
Raphael Viana Coutinho
SescRaphael Vianna is an artist-researcher, curator and cultural manager living in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He holds a doctorate and master’s degree from the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at UNIRIO, with an academic exchange at the City University of New York. He has a postgraduate degree in the fundamentals of theater teaching from the Faculty of Arts of Paraná (FAP) and a degree in visual arts from the University of the Joinville Region (UNIVILLE). He is currently a member of the Brazilian Association of Research and Postgraduate Studies in Performing Arts and works as a performing arts analyst in the national department of Sesc, where he dedicates himself to cultural circulation projects (Palco Giratório), training (Sesc Dramaturgias) and research on creation processes involving the exchange of artistic languages in an expanded field.
Sesc
Sesc, Social Service of Commerce, was created in 1946, as a commitment that businesspeople in the sector would collaborate with the social scenario through actions that benefit employees and their families with better living conditions and development of their communities of residence. Over time, this work was extended to the entire population, as a way of cooperating with society and contributing to social equality. Sesc’s national presence allows the institution to always be in tune with the public and meet their demands according to the characteristics of each location. In addition to the units located in the main cities of Brazil and in municipalities in the interior, Sesc expands the scope of its operations through mobile units, which travel around the country with health, cultural and leisure services. All actions are designed to create more complete citizens who are integrated into the life of the country. This is the organization’s greatest difference, which offers projects and services in the areas of education, health, culture, leisure and assistance. The diversity of Brazilians and the immensity of the country are reflected in every action taken by Sesc.
Raydun Bolk
Noorderzon FestivalRaydun Bolk is a Dutch programmer based in Groningen, the Netherlands. Having worked as an artist in the United Kingdom for a while, she decided to move back to the Netherlands where she obtained her MA in theatre studies. Here she specialized in digitalization within the performing arts, with the intention to make the theatre scene better and less afraid of the digital space. In the last few years, Raydun has worked for various cultural institutions and festivals, such as SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht and Arcadia in Leeuwarden. Since 2022, she’s part of the artistic team of the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen. As well as her work at Noorderzon, she manages Grand4: a digital performing arts programme at the Grand Theatre in Groningen, with year-round experiments and residencies that support new makers with keen digital minds.
Noorderzon Festival
The Noorderzon Festival was inaugurated in 1990 and is currently in its 34th year. It is an annually recurring multi-disciplinary festival with a strong international profile, and serves as an important European platform for the presentation of new international contemporary performance and artists. Around 30 main performances, over a period of 11 days, are complemented by a large variety of extra activities, music and visual arts projects resulting in an intense social and cultural event welcoming around 150.000 visitors each year.
Reinaldo Ribeiro
Tenerife LAVReinaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian artist who has lived in Spain since 2006. His work oscillates between the fields of choreography, live arts and “cosmic perreo”. He explores what he defines as the 4P concept: the relationship between the political, the poetic, the personal and the pathetic. He is especially interested in an expanded setting and in practices and projects that activate decolonial thinking and perspective. He develops his career as a creator and performer between Tenerife, Madrid and Barcelona, maintaining a close relationship with the cultural sector of these three cities. He is co-founder of the collective Lamajara (Barcelona). He collaborates as a performer with choreographer Aleksander Georgiev (Bulgaria) and the United Cowboys collective (Netherlands). He is an associate artist at the Art House (Eindhoven). He holds a master’s degree in scenic practices and visual culture from UCLM and the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid). Ribeiro’s work has always been linked to the cultural sector of Barcelona, Madrid and the Canary Islands. The impact of his work was institutionally recognized by public administrations, festivals and different circuits. Currently, he collaborates with Tenerife LAV in mediating and connecting the Canary Islands with international festivals, artists and cultural agents.
Tenerife LAV
The Tenerife Contemporary Performing Arts and Citizenship Laboratory, Tenerife LAV, is a stable project for the creation, research and development of cultural practices and policies around contemporary performing arts (living arts) which, since 2012, has proposed transformative experiences through of artistic residencies, live mediations and participation and critical thinking programs.
Rosana da Cunha
SescSesc
Sesc, Social Service of Commerce, was created in 1946, as a commitment that businesspeople in the sector would collaborate with the social scenario through actions that benefit employees and their families with better living conditions and development of their communities of residence. Over time, this work was extended to the entire population, as a way of cooperating with society and contributing to social equality. Sesc’s national presence allows the institution to always be in tune with the public and meet their demands according to the characteristics of each location. In addition to the units located in the main cities of Brazil and in municipalities in the interior, Sesc expands the scope of its operations through mobile units, which travel around the country with health, cultural and leisure services. All actions are designed to create more complete citizens who are integrated into the life of the country. This is the organization’s greatest difference, which offers projects and services in the areas of education, health, culture, leisure and assistance. The diversity of Brazilians and the immensity of the country are reflected in every action taken by Sesc.
Sergio Bacelar
Festival do Teatro Brasileiro e Movimento Internacional de DançaSergio Bacelar, a law graduate from the University of Brasília (UnB), is the creator of two festivals. The first is the FTB – Festival do Teatro Brasileiro (Brazilian Theater Festival), founded in 1999. In addition to being the creator, Bacelar is director and curatorial coordinator. The second festival is MID – Movimento Internacional de Dança (International Dance Movement), held in the Federal District. In addition to being the creator, he is also the general director and coordinator of the local, national and international curation of the festival.
Festival do Teatro Brasileiro (FTB)
The Festival do Teatro Brasileiro (Brazilian Theater Festival) is a prominent project for the circulation of performing arts in Brazil. The 21 editions of the FTB promoted the national circulation of dance, theatrical and circus productions from ten Brazilian federative units to audiences in 14 states.
Movimento Internacional de Dança (MID) The Movimento Internacional de Dança (International Dance Movement) is held in the Brazil’s federal capital, Brasília. The MID is a comprehensive project, with a strong appeal to the population, with great potential for raising awareness among new audiences. The festival brings together the most diverse segments of dance and society in artistic, sociocultural, educational, training, audience qualification and national and international exchange activities.
Sidnei Pereira
CCBB - Rio de JaneiroCCBB – Rio de Janeiro
Knowing the transformative potential of culture in each person’s reality, Banco do Brasil has invested in the sector for more than 35 years through the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB) units. The institution is currently located in four major Brazilian capitals — Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte —, where it has received more than 100 million visitors, carrying out more than 4,500 projects in the areas of performing arts, music, exhibitions, cinema and educational programs, consolidating the entity as one of the main cultural centers on the Brazilian and international scene. At CCBBs, the public has access to national and international artistic-cultural manifestations that seek to reflect and instigate new perspectives on the world through events in different areas and languages.
Silvia Rambaldi
Festival Internacional Santiago a MilSilvia Rambaldi is programming coordinator at Fundación Internacional Teatro a Mil, in Chile. Italian-born, Chilean-based cultural manager, she has been part of the permanent team of Teatro a Mil Foundation since 2016, when she started as part of the administration team. From 2019 on, she has been part of the programming area of the organization. Silvia has a degree in communications science and technology, a specialization in music and performing arts sciences and a master’s degree in teaching Italian culture and language to foreigners. In Italy, she worked as a cultural manager and producer at the Piccolo Teatro, in Milan, Irma Spettacoli, Rai Radio 2, among others. She lives in Chile since 2015.
Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil
Teatro a Mil Foundation was set up as a non-profit organization in 2004, after the expansion and consolidation of the Santiago a Mil International Festival, our most important project, held in January each year since 1994. Since then, our work has involved contributing to the geographical, social and economic decentralization of access to culture, through the highest-quality projects, training and educational programs for both the public and artists and touring opportunities for Chilean and Latin American companies.
Simone Toendury
La Bâtie-Festival de GenèveSimone Toendury is head of performing arts programming at La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland). From 2014 to 2021, she was responsible for programming and producing performing arts, street arts, performances and installations at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne. Simone grew up in Bern, Switzerland, and has a degree in political science from the University of Lausanne. She began to get involved in the cultural area in 1998, as part of Expo.02. In 2007, she co-founded Tutu Production, a performing arts production and distribution company that works with artists including Cindy Van Acker, Marco Berrettini and Massimo Furlan.
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève is a multidisciplinary event (music, dance, theater and performance) of discoveries and creations. The festival brings together live performances, choreographies, shows and DJs, with a wide variety of national, Swiss and foreign artists. Every year in September, the public has 18 days to discover the most interesting current trends in more than 20 locations in the region of Geneva, a neighboring city in France, and compare their own vision of the world with the ideas proposed by the invited artists. Annually, for the last 47 editions, the festival has used different locations in the city, including theaters and concert halls, as well as more unusual places such as museums, university auditoriums and public spaces.
Soraya Martins
FIT BHSoraya Martins is an actress, theater critic and independent curator. She is the author of the book Teatralidades-Aquilombamento: Várias Formas de Pensar-Ser-Estar em Cena e no Mundo [Teatralidades-Aquilombamento: Various Ways of Thinking-Being-Being on Scene and in the World] (Javali, 2023). Currently, she is part of the curatorial team of the Festival Internacional de Teatro de Belo Horizonte (FIT BH) and the creative and curatorial front of Dona Ruth: Festival de Teatro Negro de São Paulo, in addition to having already curated the Festival Internacional de Artes Cênicas da Bahia (FIAC), between 2019 and 2022, and FIT BH in 2018. Soraya is a post-doctoral student in literature, other arts and media at UFMG, a doctorate in Portuguese-language literature and a master in literary studies. Actress graduated from the UFMG University Theater, she studied theater semiology at the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo dell’Università di Bologna, in Italy. She works as an actress and researcher of Brazilian theatricality. She writes theater reviews for both the SegundaPRETA project and the Horizonte da Cena website and for festivals such as: Festival de Curitiba, Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo (MITsp) and Mirada – Festival Ibero-Americano de Artes Cênicas. Her CV includes work with several theater groups, including Grupo Espanca!
FIT BH
FIT BH is an event that takes place every two years in Belo Horizonte. Created in 1993, on the initiative of artists from the city and public authorities, it was born from the desire to unite theater performed on stages and in the streets. In 2024, it turns 30 years old and its curatorial thinking is memory as a place of creation.
Stefanie Carp
Athens Epidaurus FestivalStefanie Carp is a dramaturg and international curator and for many years artistic festival director. She worked in different German, Suiss, Austrian cheaters as dramaturg, chef dramaturg and co-director. For eight years, Stefanie was the artistic director of the international theater program of the Vienna Festival and later the artistic director of the Festival Ruhrtriennale in Germany. Since some years, she has been curating and advising amongst others the international program of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, in Greece.
Athens Epidaurus Festival
The Athens Epidaurus Festival takes place every June, July and August in Athens and Epidaurus in Greece. It is the big national festival, which has many branches. One branch is the classic Greek Tragedies, which are performed in the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus. Another branch is the contemporary, partly experimental Greek and international theater and dance. This contemporary part of the festival happens in June and July in black box, like venues in the buildings of a former factory in Athens.
Thiago Carreira
CCBB - BrasíliaCCBB – Brasília
Knowing the transformative potential of culture in each person’s reality, Banco do Brasil has invested in the sector for more than 35 years through the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB) units. The institution is currently located in four major Brazilian capitals — Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte —, where it has received more than 100 million visitors, carrying out more than 4,500 projects in the areas of performing arts, music, exhibitions, cinema and educational programs, consolidating the entity as one of the main cultural centers on the Brazilian and international scene. At CCBBs, the public has access to national and international artistic-cultural manifestations that seek to reflect and instigate new perspectives on the world through events in different areas and languages.
Thiago Pirajira
Porto Alegre em CenaPorto Alegre em Cena
Porto Alegre em Cena built step by step its history with the capital of Porto Alegre, where it is set, bringing together the most relevant groups from the Brazilian and world scene and also paving the way for the new, the different, the uncomfortable. Many spectators remember these spectacles that spanned the public’s existence. In the “springs” of Em Cena, the city is filled with lights and colors, with theater halls full and the streets pulsing. In almost three decades, the festival, which started timidly, groping its way around spaces, but already with a program pointing to the future, has consolidated itself and opened unimaginable paths.
Tiago Guedes
Maison de la DanseTiago Guedes developed a career as a dancer and choreographer before becoming artistic director of Teatro Municipal do Porto in 2014 and, later, director of the performing arts department of the city of Porto. He created the Dias da Dança Festival in 2016 and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, a center for artistic residencies and work space for the performing arts, in 2021. Since July 2022, he has been director of Maison de la Danse, co-director of the Biennial of Lyon and artistic director of the Dance Biennial. Guedes’ project for the city of Lyon defends a strong territorial anchoring and a reinforced presence of artists. He intends to affirm the Maison de la Danse as a stage for all dances, the Dance Biennial as a festival of contemporary creation and the future Ateliers de la Danse as spaces for production and artistic practices.
Maison de la Danse
For more than 40 years, the Maison de la Danse has been fundamental to the French and European choreographic scene, presenting between 35 and 40 international companies each season to an audience of 150,000 spectators. As a European creative center, it supports the projects and influence of associated artists, the development of emerging regional companies, in addition to supporting global creations programmed at the Maison or the Lyon Dance Biennial. From September 2023, under the direction of Tiago Guedes, the Maison de la Danse project evolved and gave life to the MAD project: Maison + Ateliers + Dança. In 2027, Maison de la Danse will open the Ateliers de la Danse, creating spaces for artists and practice for amateurs, equipped with rooms for 400 people and two rehearsal studios. The Maison and the Ateliers, still in the development phase, will provide the city of Lyon with a unique model in the world at the service of choreographic creation, artists and the public.
Tina Dias
FIT BHTina Dias is an actress, performer, curator, cultural manager and teacher. A member of the Armatrux Theater Group for 29 years, she performs in the entire repertoire of shows, in addition to being the company’s production director. She is also a performer and one of the creators of the Ateliê Aberto de Performance O(s)tras. Tina is also the curator and creator of the Encontro Latino-Americano de Teatro de Grupo de Minas Gerais (Minas Gerais Latin American Theater Group Meeting). She has been working as an international programmer for ten years, focusing on creating networks in Latin American countries. As an international performing arts programmer, she participated in the arts markets of WOMEX Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, in 2014, MICA Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2015 and 2023, MICSUR in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2016, Santiago OFF, in Chile, in 2017, MicBR São Paulo, in 2018, PLATEA Santiago a Mil, in Chile, in 2023, and Hecho en Chile, also in 2023. In the 2023 edition of MicBR, the Brazilian Creative Industries Market, she joined the Ministry of Culture team as a market intelligence consultant for the theater sector. Specialist in culture and education, she works as a teacher in the area of management and cultural production at Escola Livre de Artes (ELA) – Arena da Cultura, of Belo Horizonte City Hall.
FIT BH
FIT BH is an event that takes place every two years in Belo Horizonte. Created in 1993, on the initiative of artists from the city and public authorities, it was born from the desire to unite theater performed on stages and in the streets. In 2024, it turns 30 years old and its curatorial thinking is memory as a place of creation.
Tomasz Kirenczuk
Festival de SantarcangeloBorn in Poland in 1983, Tomasz Kireńczuk is a dramaturge, theatre critic and curator. In 2008, together with a group of young artists, he founded the Teatr Nowy in Krakow, a place of theatrical research that in a few years transformed from a temporary organism into an independent centre of theatrical production. For a few years, he has been its project director, curating artistic, educational and social aspects of the theatre. In 2018, he inaugurated the Laboratory of New Theatre, a programme dedicated to the education of young artists. Its curatorial practice focused on socio-artistic work with various local communities. He is also the co-creator of Dialog – Wrocław International Theatre Festival, one of the most important theatre festivals in Poland, where he worked from 2011 to 2019. Artistic Director of Santarcangelo Festival, Italy (2022-2024). Between 2005 and 2006 he lived in Rome, where he developed a research project dedicated to the Italian Futurist theatre. In 2008, he published an essay in Polish titled From art in action to action in art. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the theatre of Italian Futurists. He studied and taught at the Faculty of Performing Arts of Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Festival de Santarcangelo
Santarcangelo Festival is a lively and vibrant art and performance Festival that brings the most groundbreaking and exciting contemporary creation to a small beautiful town on top of a hill, in Northern Italy. It offers a diverse programme of art and music and it transforms the town for 10 days, creating an unique and immersive atmosphere and building a temporary community of artists, citizens and spectators who gather around contemporary performing arts. The Festival has been successfully running since 1971, becoming an important cultural hub and a leader in the international arts scene. The event offers a pleasurable context for networking and conversation. Where and when possible we try to contextualize projects, offering artists the chance to stay in residency during the year in Santarcangelo, presenting more than one work, in order to enjoy the Festival atmosphere, to get a deeper connection with the Festival audience and the town. We value the exchange among the artistic community: a lot of collaborations among artists and new projects are born from encounters that happened at the Festival during the past years. The Festival is always questioning how freedom can be expanded, shared, enjoyed. This is assured by the autonomy of the curatorial team of the Festival and the risk-taking, adventurous attitude of the whole team. At Santarcangelo Festival you can see and feel what nowness feels like, experience groundbreaking performing practices: we present artists across a wide range of artistic languages, following the freedom of the post-internet generation who create art outside of institutional boundaries of genres. With theatre, dance and music at its core, the Festival presents a range of artists who do not fit into any of these categories, cross-pollinating with other sectors, from political activism to scientific research.
Wesley Kawaai
OFF Produções CulturaisWesley Kawaai is a producer, director of OFF Produções Culturais and editor of Guia OFF de Teatro.
OFF Produções Culturais
OFF Produções Culturais was created in 1991 as a continuation of Espaço OFF, one of the most important cultural spaces in the city of São Paulo in the 1980s and 1990s. OFF’s focus is the production and circulation of new languages and the exchange of works and avant-garde artists.
