Piny works as a performer, choreographer, researcher, curator and teacher. In 1999, she began to study Middle Eastern and North African dance and their contemporary fusions and, since 2006, she has also devoted herself to the cultures of Hip Hop, Clubbing and Ballroom (Vogue). Highlights of her work include HIP. a pussy point of view, .G RITO and ONYX. She studied Architecture and completed a degree in Contemporary Dance. In 2023, she took Festival OU.kupa to the Teatro do Bairro Alto. She studies alternative ways of understanding intersectionality in being and making, through the study of astrology, tarot, yoga and non-Eurocentric philosophies.

Leo Soulflow trained in Sports Sciences and Osteopathy, an area in which she has worked since 2016. In 2003, she started to focus on the area of dance, particularly Hip Hop, House Dance, Popping and Tap-dancing. As a performer, it is worth mentioning her participation in Bisonte and Carcaça, by Marco da Silva Ferreira, and .G RITO, by Piny. She is resident DJ at various clubs in Lisbon and at the Pump da Beat party, and is a Ballroom DJ in Portugal. Along with Carincur, she created the soundtrack for Piny’s Onyx.

Nala Revlon is a Luso-Brazilian performer and producer, a trailblazer and Mother of the Portuguese chapter of the Iconic House of Revlon. She shone in her categories – Women’s Performance and Female Figure – in Paris, London, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, among other cities, where she won international prizes and European titles. She is the producer of the Pump da Beat party and, with the Vogue PT Chapter collective, she organises events aimed at the LGBTQIA+ community. She has performed in the pieces .G RITO, by Piny, and Carcaça, by Marco da Silva Ferreira.

Catarina or Kenzi is a biologist at master's level specialising in the language, behaviour and evolution of birds. She has been part of the Orchidaceae collective since its conception in 2012. She works in organisation/curating and as a volunteer at events and festivals. She is the founder of the Dunas Livres Association – a female activist group for the conservation of Portugal's wild coastline. She recently joined the inner circle of Ecoversidades, which is committed to radically re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological prosperity.

Marcus Veiga has been linked to publishers, festivals and PLAY – Portuguese Music Awards. As Scúru Fitchádu, ‘he represents one of the most advanced and radical proposals in contemporary Portuguese music and ventures forth alone in a land that he himself invented, where he combines the speed and intensity of the funaná, which originated as the music of Cape Verdean resistance. Then, on top of all these aspects, that powerful voice emerges, hoarse and shouted, and that black body that lets itself be possessed on stage by the unbridled energy that each of his songs liberates.’ Rui Miguel Abreu

Xullaji is a rapper, sound designer, and a sound and visual poet. He has released three albums (Rapresálias, Rapensar and Rapressão) that stand out for the political/aesthetic forcefulness of their lyrics, given that hip hop, as a culture of resistance, is rooted in the African working class and its diaspora. His most recent schizophonia is Prétu, an Afronaut who merges samples and images of his African references with his electronic cosmos and his pan-afro-disruptive thought. He released Prétu 1 - xei di kor, rated by Ípsilon (Público newspaper) as one of the best 10 albums of 2023. He is the co-founder of Peles Negras Mascaras Negras – a theatre of darkening, a Black community artistic collective.

Fábio Krayze was born in Angola, where he learnt the first steps of kuduro. He moved to Portugal at the age of 13, where he embarked on more formal dance training. He has performed with bands such as Buraka Som Sistema, he was finalist in the So You Think You Can Dance programme and semifinalist of Got Talent Portugal, with the group Funkymonkeyz. In 2018, he launched his musical career with the EP 2018 or Nothing. He performed in the piece Carcaça, by Marco da Silva Ferreira, and choreographed his first piece, Musseque, which premièred at Festival OU.kupa in 2023.

An artist, dancer, cultural mediator, anthropologist and project coordinator, she is also co-founder of MOSJAM Associação Cultural e Artística, a platform for developing clubbing and street dance. She works with national and international organisations, stimulating and developing activities for and with the community. She works with various dance companies that champion street dance, clubbing and capoeira, facilitating broad participation in different artistic and cultural events around the world. She is studying for a master’s in Cultural and Management Studies from ISCTE.

The Post-Human Art Research Centre, founded by Carincur and João Pedro Fonseca, focuses on a cross-disciplinary approach and an interspecies dialogue, which explores post-nature for contemporary creation. These lines of artistic research take different forms, including creation, production, publications and a programme of activities that include expanded computational arts, talks and workshops, contributing to greater democratisation in access to art, technology and science.