Francisco Camacho has directed 20 solo and 22 ensemble performances in the areas of dance and theatre, some for the stage and others for unconventional spaces. He has also co-authored 13 works and developed several others in a pedagogical context. He has performed all over the world and received the Bordalo/Casa da Imprensa (1995 and 1997) and ACARTE/Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão (1994/95; and Special Mention 1992/93) awards. He has performed with Paula Massano, Alain Platel, Lúcia Sigalho, Filipa Francisco, Miguel Moreira and Tonan Quito. He regularly collaborates with Meg Stuart, as well as with Carlota Lagido, Sílvia Real and Fernanda Lapa. He founded and directs EIRA.

Beatriz Valentim is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She studied at the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional (Lisbon), at the Elit Training Programme of the Budapest Dance Theatre Company (Budapest), at the F.O.R. Dance Theatre at Companhia Olga Roriz (Lisbon), and completed a postgraduate course in Contemporary Dance at ESMAE. She has a degree in sociology from ISCTE-IUL. She has collaborated with Olga Roriz, Raimund Hoghe, Mafalda Deville, São Castro and António Cabrita, Sílvia Real, Francisco Camacho, Né Barros, Jonas & Lander, Joana Magalhães, and Clara Andermatt. Her piece O que é um problema? [What is a problem?] questions young people about their problems in a show that combines dance, live music and visual arts. Vanishing, co-created with Bruno Senune, is her latest work, which premiered in April 2024.

João Oliveira is a performer and creator based in Porto. He works as both an actor and a dancer and has collaborated with various directors and choreographers, including Carlos Costa, Né Barros, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Filipe Moreira, Ricardo Pais, Madalena Vitorino, Bernardo Gavina, Francisco Camacho, and Rogério Nuno Costa, among others. He is interested in crossing various languages, mainly theatre and dance, and has recently ventured into writing dramaturgical texts. He co-authored the play Dois Peixes em Marte (2021) with Andreia Fraga; as well as Caem Calhaus do Céu (2022); Dostoyevsky Made Me Do It (2023); and Violeta (2023). In 2023, he was Guest Artist at the DDD – Dias da Dança 2023 Festival.

Dancer, choreographer, teacher and human being with a funny accent, born in 1996. Luso-Slovene, raised and educated in Trieste, Italy, matured in Slovenia. Trained in ballet at the Maribor Conservatory, she expanded her horizons with a degree in Languages and Literature from the University of Trieste. She moved to Porto to further her dance studies at Oficina ZERO. Her work as a performer includes notable collaborations with Edward Clug, Dario Cossutta, Daniel Matos, Ana Rita Barata, João Sanchez, Davis Freeman, Madalena Victorino, Francisco Camacho, Ana Jezabel, Paulina Olowska, João dos Santos Martins, and Kensaku Shinohara, among others. She lives her body as an arena of deconstruction and celebration, in a continuous search for emancipation and pleasure. In 2021 she created LADYLIKE, which she presented at the Multiplicidades and Danceproject (IT) festivals. In 2022 the project was selected for Projeções (Balleteatro) and in 2024 it was included as part of MNJC (Gerador). She is in the process of creating VORACE, with the support of the Novos Materiais program from the Materiais Diversos association.

Sérgio Bruno Tavares Delgado was born in Mozambique in 1972, studied at the Hot Club jazz school, and began working as a composer/musician/sound designer for theatre in 1996, having participated in more than 100 productions to date. His artistic versatility has allowed him to work with various directors, companies and choreographers, including Bruno Bravo (Primeiros Sintomas), Cristina Carvalhal (Causas Comuns), Jorge Andrade (Mala Voadora), Carlos Jorge Pessoa (Teatro da Garagem), Nuno Cardoso (Ao Cabo Teatro), Marcos Barbosa (Teatro Oficina), Ricardo Neves Neves (Teatro do Eléctrico), Miguel Seabra (Teatro Meridional), Catarina Requeijo, Diogo Infante, Sandra Faleiro, and Francisco Camacho.

EIRA is an artistic organisation dedicated to the development and promotion of contemporary dance and performance in Portugal and internationally. Its mission is to support and present artists living in Portugal and abroad, whose areas of work are dance and other artistic disciplines that work with the body, movement and thought. EIRA's objectives are to create, produce, disseminate, promote, affirm and project contemporaneity. Since 2015, it has organised the Lisbon International Contemporary Dance Festival - Cumplicidades. At the same time, it develops training and public awareness activities aimed at the general community.