Joclécio Azevedo & Teresa Prima

This piece works as a little game, an open book where two performers inhabit sensory worlds. On stage, they draw a mechanism that fabricates imaginaries and stimuli directed at perception and knowledge. The objects act as extensions of the body, thus creating several figures and images undergoing continuous change. One is able to explore simple notions in these small worlds, such as appearing and disappearing, recognising body parts, being close or far, lightness and weight, mobility and immobility — Joclécio Azevedo & Teresa Prima

Joclécio Azevedo, Brazil, 1969. He has lived in Porto since 1990. His artistic practice revolves around choreography, curatorship, performance and pedagogy, in search of different principles of collaboration. His work tries to articulate the different roles that writing can assume in artistic practice, whether as a performative gesture, as a way of appropriating reality, as a visual material or instrument for activating and recording performance. He was artistic director of the Core of Choreographic Experimentation between 2006 and 2011. He is a member of the plenary board of GDA (Cooperative for the Management of Artists' Rights), since 2008 and of the Board of Trustees of the GDA Foundation since 2010. Resident artist of Circular Associação Cultural a from 2012 and coordinator of the association's educational program from 2018. He is currently studying for a PhD in Contemporary Art at Colégio das Artes (University of Coimbra).

Teresa Prima, Porto, 1975. Studied at Balleteatro, Fórum Dança, Attakalari Center for Performing Arts, Meera Dance Academy and Tamalpa Institute, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the National Culture Center and the GDA Foundation. She attends the Living Somatics Institute in the field of Somatic Clinic and Education. As a choreographer, she developed solo and partnership projects in a national and international context. She worked as a performer with choreographers Madalena Vitorino, Filipa Francisco, Vera Mantero, Joclécio Azevedo, Aldara Bizarro and Isabelle Schad and with directors Jean Jourdheuille, João Garcia Miguel, Mónica Calle and Gary Stevens. She has been an educator through dance for over 25 years, specializing in Creative Dance allying it with methodologies of the Expressive Arts. She is a facilitator of somatic movement. She has promoted several editions of Anna Halprin's Planetary Dance in Portugal.