BACKGROUND

Wallace Ferreira/Patfudyda is a choreographer, performer, and visual artist. She holds a degree in dance from UFRJ and in visual arts from Parque Lage, and completed a residency at Instituto Inclusartiz. She received the ImPulsTanz Award for Young Choreographers (2022) and the FOCO ARTRIO Award (2024), and was named an Artist in Focus at MITbr 2025. Her works consist of studies of social codes choreographed by dissident bodies. Director of Atraque, Vogue Funk, and the Repertório Trilogy, her works have been presented at galleries and festivals such as the Lyon Dance Biennale, the 35th São Paulo Biennial, the Dance Umbrella Festival, and the 11th Contemporary Dance Biennale of Mozambique. In the ballroom scene, she is part of the Undeniable Haus of Basquiat and is also a legendary mother of the Kiki House of Mamba Negra.

Quafá Produções works in the production, circulation, management, and fundraising of artists and projects connected to urban, peripheral, and popular cultural expressions from Rio de Janeiro. It specializes in public funding management and in the national and international management and circulation of prominent artists.