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La Ribot

born in Madrid and currently based in Geneva, is a choreographer, dancer, director and visual artist; a radically multidisciplinary creator. Her work has its origins in movement, the body, and her own background in dance, to which she adds other practices, systems and materials as they become necessary. From the beginning of her career her work has included live performance, video, speech, sign language, found art, installations and "relational" works. She has involved different communities in her performances and videos, both professional colleagues and people with no experience in the world of art. Her works have been presented at the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro) and Art Basel. In 2020, La Biennale Danza (Venice) awarded her the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. laribot.com

Mathilde Monnier

is a role model in French and international contemporary dance’s landscape. From piece to piece she defies expectations by presenting a work in constant renewal. Her nomination at the head of the Choreographic Centre of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in 1994 marks the beginning of a series of collaborations with personalities from various artistic fields (Jean-Luc Nancy, Katerine, Christine Angot, La Ribot, Heiner Goebbels...). She created more than 40 choreographic works presented on the great stages of the Avignon festival, the biggest theaters of Paris, New York, Vienna, Berlin, London... and received several awards for her work : The French Ministry of Culture prize, the SACD Grand Prix. Between 2014 and 2019 she was the general director of the National Dance Centre in Pantin. mathildemonnier.com

Tiago Rodrigues

is a Portuguese theatre director and producer. In addition to his collaborations with several Portuguese and international stage artists, he has also written screenplays, newspaper contributions and literary texts and taught at institutions that include that Belgian dance school P.A.R.T.S. The theatre of Tiago Rodrigues is always developed for and with the actors, striving to blend reality and fiction through poetry. He regards theatre as a “human assembly” – a place where people meet, as in a café, to share their thoughts and spend time together. As director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Tiago Rodrigues is a builder of bridges between cities and countries, at once host and advocate of a living theatre.