Gustavo Ciríaco is a transdisciplinary artist whose work moves between performing and visual arts. Trained as both a political scientist and dancer, his practice is strongly marked by a site-specific approach. His works establish dialogues between context and architecture, geography and habitation, reality and fiction, in an ongoing twenty-year exploration of the expanded fields of dance-making. Ciríaco works across different fields of knowledge and artistic practices, gathering tools and insights on how to engage with shared time and space. With an international trajectory spanning the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, his work has been presented by major festivals and institutions. Since 2021, Ciríaco has been a tutor in the THIRD programme at DAS – University of Amsterdam.

Frank Willens is a dancer, choreographer, and performer based in Berlin since 2003. Trained in dance at UC Berkeley, his career spans contexts as diverse as experimental ballet, rock opera, and contemporary dance, developing an artistic practice marked by physicality, vulnerability, and attention to forms of presence and relation on stage. Over the past two decades, he has collaborated with creators such as Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Boris Charmatz, Christine Gaigg, Susanne Kennedy, and Falk Richter, while maintaining a strong connection to Berlin’s independent dance scene. His work questions modes of labour, exchange, and performative presence, and has been presented at international festivals and institutions including Tanz im August, Theater der Welt, ImPulsTanz, Manchester International Festival, and Transform Festival. He has also participated in projects by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch under the direction of Boris Charmatz.