Catarina Campos
She studied Architecture, received professional training in urban dances at Flow Academy and Juste Debout Paris, and completed FAICC at Instável. She is a dancer with an open vision of movement, rooted in Street and Club Dances. Founder of YOLK freestyle dance Project, which focuses on dance in public spaces. She is a co-creator and performer of TRES PAS SAR (2016), QUERENCIA (2017), and BOWND (2018). She has performed in |F| by Orchidaceae Company, EXPEDIÇÃO (2019) by Mara Andrade, M.U.D (2020) by Melissa Pérez, and BATE FADO (2021) by Jonas & Lander. Creator and choreographer of PELO MENOS 77. (2019) and Artistic Director of PLAYGROUND (2022).

Melissa Pérez Sousa

Originally from Valencia, Venezuela, she studied Contemporary Dance Performance at UNEARTE and African diaspora social dances such as Tambor Urbano, Hip Hop, House, Tap, and Body Percussion (in Venezuela and New York). In parallel, she continues her studies and practice in video directing and editing, focusing on dance film. She won awards with the short films MUD and Sincronismo at festivals such as InShadow (Lisbon) and Curtas de Dança (Armazém22, Porto). As a performer, she has worked with Sandrine Lescourant, Dana Foglia, Ladies of Hip Hop Festival, Alvin Ailey School, Jorge Gonçalves, Joclécio Azevedo, Catarina Campos, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Jonas & Lander, Bouziane Bouteldja, and Jep Melendez. She is the founder of the LOOP Festival and co-founder of the pedagogical project YOLK, focused on research, education, and activism within the Street and Club Dance communities. She created En el Vacío (2017), co-created BOWND (2019), and PLAYGROUND, premiered at the DDD Festival (2022). She is currently developing her solo project TAMBOR and working on Lander Patrick’s new creation WONDERLANDI, to premiere in 2025.