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Ana Rocha

(1982, Porto) Studied Art History, Contemporary Art and Visual Arts. Training in contemporary dance, performance, choreography, contact improvisation and dramaturgy. Started production work in 2001, on visual arts field, among other artistic disciplines (theater, music, contemporary dance), monitoring and organization of creations, programming and training. Galeria Fernando Santos, Balleteatro, Festival da Fábrica, Serralves em Festa, Alkantara Festival, Cão Danado Cia, are some of the organizations with whom she has collaborated and worked, before. Ana was a member of OOPSA |SOOPA collective. Scholarship InovArt 2010 in Berlin, with Uferstudios, and DanceWeb - Impulstanz 2012. Taught at Alquimia da Cor, Balleteatro Escola Profissional and Tanzfabrik Berlin. Her first solo work, Fraud by Nature, had premiere at Tanztage Berlin in 2012. She has worked as a performer or co-creator in performing arts projects | contemporary dance since 2006. Highlights Fabienne Audéoud, Madalena Vitorino, Jorge Gonçalves, Dinis Machado, Isabelle Schad, Sandra Wieser, Keith Hennessy, Sebastian Matthias and Davis Freeman, as some of the artists she has collaborated. Ana was participating member of a cooperative venture between Germany | France, research and critical development for performing arts | contemporary dance, Transfabrik, directed by Franz Anton Cramer (2013). She was part of Deborah Hay, Solo Commissioning Project 2012, “Dynamic”, which took place in Findhorn (Scotland). Collaborates regularly as dramaturge and choreographic support with international projects of independent artists. Since 2012, collaborates with Meg Stuart, as creation and choreography assistant (Built to Last, film project with Michael Borremans, Sketches | Notebook and Hunter). Co-founder of MEZZANINE association with Jorge Gonçalves since 2009.
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  Ana Rocha
  
  (1982, Porto) Studied Art History, Contemporary Art and Visual Arts. Training in contemporary dance, performance, choreography, contact improvisation and dramaturgy. Started production work in 2001, on visual arts field, among other artistic disciplines (theater, music, contemporary dance), monitoring and organization of creations, programming and training. Galeria Fernando Santos, Balleteatro, Festival da Fábrica, Serralves em Festa, Alkantara Festival, Cão Danado Cia, are some of the organizations with whom she has collaborated and worked, before. Ana was a member of OOPSA |SOOPA collective. Scholarship InovArt 2010 in Berlin, with Uferstudios, and DanceWeb - Impulstanz 2012. Taught at Alquimia da Cor, Balleteatro Escola Profissional and Tanzfabrik Berlin. Her first solo work, Fraud by Nature, had premiere at Tanztage Berlin in 2012. She has worked as a performer or co-creator in performing arts projects | contemporary dance since 2006. Highlights Fabienne Audéoud, Madalena Vitorino, Jorge Gonçalves, Dinis Machado, Isabelle Schad, Sandra Wieser, Keith Hennessy, Sebastian Matthias and Davis Freeman, as some of the artists she has collaborated. Ana was participating member of a cooperative venture between Germany | France, research and critical development for performing arts | contemporary dance, Transfabrik, directed by Franz Anton Cramer (2013). She was part of Deborah Hay, Solo Commissioning Project 2012, “Dynamic”, which took place in Findhorn (Scotland). Collaborates regularly as dramaturge and choreographic support with international projects of independent artists. Since 2012, collaborates with Meg Stuart, as creation and choreography assistant (Built to Last, film project with Michael Borremans, Sketches | Notebook and Hunter). Co-founder of MEZZANINE association with Jorge Gonçalves since 2009.
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  Jorge Gonçalves
  
  He is the artistic co-director and production manager of MEZZANINE since its foundation, in 2009. As an independent, he works within the performing arts as a curator, choreographer, dramaturge, producer, performer and teacher. He has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEUP, 2002), a Contemporary Dance Course at Balleteatro Escola Profissional (2005), a Master of Artistic Performance - Dance (FMH 2006) and he recently finished the Amsterdam Master of Choreography (AHK, 2014 ). Since 2006, he has been producing his artwork: Duet with Ana Mira (2006), Fiction (2009), Gilet (2009), Antoine, with Ludger Lamers (2010), Third Act (2010), Open Season, with Ana Rocha (2011), Conquest of Deborah Hay (2011), A suspended gesture from me to you (2014). His productions are part of partnerships with structures within Portugal, Germany, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands.
  
  With Goro Tronsmo, he is regularly an artistic assistant director and dramaturge of the continuous project Muscle Temple (2012-2015). He was the choreographic collaborator for Mathilde Monnier in Surrogated Cities project, Heiner Goebbels an opera, at the Ruhr Triennale 2014. Jorge was dramaturge of Daniel Kok's last productions (Cheerleader of Europe, 2014 and The Gay Romeo, 2011), Ana Rocha (Fraud by Nature, 2012) and Keith Lim (re: self, 2011). Since 2003, he worked with various choreographers: Daniel Kok in PIIGS (2015); Isabelle Schad in Experience # 1 (2012) and Musik (2011); Dinis Machado in Parole, parole, parole (2010) and Supernada (2009); Isabel Valverde and António Caramelo in Real Virtual Games (2008), Né Barros in Million (2014), Movimentantes (2007), With Drooping Wings (2007), Solistas (2006), Dia Maior (2005), Vaga (2003); among others.
  
  From 2008 to 2011, he directed with Ana Rocha the production structure Obra Madrasta. He was the co-responsible and artistic manager, OOPSA Association for the year 2009. He has collaborated with various institutions at national level (Balleteatro, Asas de Palco, MARTE, Casa da Música) and international (HZT and Tanzfabrik Berlin) by giving workshops and mentoring performing arts students.
  
  www.jorgegoncalves.org
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  Marta Bernardes
  
  (1983, Porto) Degree in Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts, University of Porto, the institution that was lecturer in Fine Arts from 2010 to 2012. She deepened her study in visual and media arts in ESNBA Paris. Master in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy Culture, in 2008, Faculty of Philosophy de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At the same institution currently develops a PhD thesis in the field of Advance Philosophy.
  
  Worked at the education service of the Museo de Arte Español Abstract, Cuenca - España and was member of the exhibition coordination at Fundación Juan March Madrid.
  
  Since 2005 performs regularly to the public with both plastic and audiovisual work as with pieces of performative bent and music, both solo and collaborative and communal way. Among many other projects are:
  
  "OCIDENTE" - FIAV, Nimes-Tunes Festival Fottogrammi d'europe - Venice and Gallery Magda Bellotti - Madrid; “SONO" (2006) Serralves Museum -Porto; "DIPTICO" (2006) Serralves Museum -Porto, “SACRIFICIO DE VERDADE" (2008) - MCO Gallery and Trama Festival; "ESCALA" (2009) MUGATXOAN- Serralves- Foundation La Laboral Gijon; "PhODA" (2009) TCA-Porto and Museo de Bellas Artes Santander- Spain; "RUBRO" (2009) Teatro Maria Matos - Lisbon; "El puente de la Vision - Aprender a solidão“ (2010) Museo deBellas Santander Arts; "Los del cine límites" (2011) Cruce: arte y pensamiento - Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Spain; "BARAFUNDA" (2014) Teatro Maria Matos - Lisbon; “FABULOSAS FÁBULAS EM TERRA DE NENHURES" (2014) - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon;
  
  Participates regularly as a performer and author, in the project “Quintas de Leitura”, TCA Porto.
  
  Has been developing since 2006 a close collaboration (as creator, producer and as a trainer) with various spaces and artistic collective of Porto. This is the case of “O Senhorio" - where she developed editorial, musical and visual work; Collective Arco da Velha and Mezzanine - with which she created and performed the intervention project “Regime de 1/2 Pensão: Residences for artists in cafes tables," association Saco Azul e Maus Hábitos, with which collaborated in the area of programming (“Tômbola Show:”; “ENCAJE: ONOFF." Guimarães - European Capital of Culture 2012) and critical and collaborative pedagogy (“Lápis: tecnologia de ponta", “Ágora: escola de tentativa"," Avesso: escola do comissariado das imagens emancipadas"and" Sincope: experiência teatral com a comunidade"- 2.0 Manobras no Porto).
  
  Edited “Arquivo de nuvens" (Cadernos do Campo Alegre, 2007), "Ulises" (ediçõesRato da Europa) and "Claviculária" (Douda Correria, 2014).
  
  Its screenwriter of the film "Bibliografia" de João Manso and Miguel Manso, premiered at the Indie Lisboa Festival in 2013 and selected for the "Portuguese Waves" in Torino Film Festival.