Gustavo Gomes is a performer, choreographer, teacher, and filmmaker based in Cologne, Germany. His work has been presented at renowned venues and festivals including Radialsystem Berlin, Museum Insel Hombroich, the Ludwig Museum, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, HELLERAU, PiK Deutz, and TanzFaktur. As the creative director of Gustavo Gomes & Co., he collaborates with a multidisciplinary collective to explore innovative approaches to theatrical representation and multimedia performance. He has worked with companies such as Ballet of Difference, Osnabrück Tanztheater, Braunschweig Tanztheater, and the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.
Gomes also collaborates with other artists on installations and performances exhibited at Art Basel – Parcours, KOLUMBA, M Leuven Museum, Rotterdam Art Week, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Mono Lisbon, Loods6 Amsterdam, Rencontre Paris Berlin and the Watou Art Festival. As a filmmaker, Gomes is a three-time Tarkovsky Grant recipient and has screened his films internationally, including at the Brussels Independent Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, and the Berlin Independent Film Festival. He has held artist residencies at Forecast Platform Berlin (2023), HELLERAU, TalentLab at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville Luxembourg, WELTKUNSTZIMMER, VRHAM! Festival, the EKARD Residency, Quartier am Hafen, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the NRW Kultursekretariat.
Gomes has also published two books: I Am Pretty, I Should Be Famous (with Harald Geissler) and Variations on the Represented (with András Dobi). He is a guest faculty member at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK) and the Center for Contemporary Dance (ZZT – HfMT Köln), where he teaches improvisation, intuitive movement, identity, and courage.

Joao’s work focuses primarily on the theme of communication, making use of a cynical, witty, absurd voice to provide commentary on the issues of our times. He received his theatre training in native Brazil, under Ronaldo Boschi, mainly focused on Stanislavski’s approach, and exploring others such as Grotowski’s Laboratory and Brecht’s Dialectical Theatre. He then pursued a dance education and career, graduating from Arts Umbrella Dance in Canada, and dancing with the Ballett der Oper Graz, Austria for five years. Since 2018, he has performed as a freelancer for institutions such as the Venice Biennale, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Wen Wei Dance, and the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, either as a dancer, actor, or both. He holds an MA in Choreography from the Palucca University in Germany (2020), and has conceived dance and dance-theatre works both for video and stage. Approaching Choreography as the organization of space, Joao integrates in his creative work multiple performative elements such as spoken word, the manipulation of the setting, movement scores and improvisation practices as vehicles of communication. He looks to create events and works that offer a complexity of inputs and leave plenty of room for doubt. Inspired by John Keats' term negative knowledge - the importance of not knowing to remain receptive and aware - Joao creates with specificity and craft to offer the viewer a moment of uncertainty.

Tommaso Bertasi is an Italian dancer based in Europe, working as both a performer and teacher. After early training in Italy, he continued his studies at BAdance at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He has danced with Egri Bianco Danza in Turin, Europa Dance Company in Brussels, and completed an internship with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company under Jacopo Godani. Bertasi regularly collaborates with the Fabien Prioville Dance Company in Düsseldorf and teaches ballet and contemporary dance at Tanzhaus NRW. His work spans stage performance, teaching, and ongoing freelance collaborations across Germany and beyond.

Ulysse Zangs is a French interdisciplinary artist, dancer, composer, and musician. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and later at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz in Dresden. From 2015 to 2019, he danced with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company under Jacopo Godani. As a dancer, he has performed works by Jacopo Godani, William Forsythe, Rafael Bonachela, and others. After leaving the company, he embarked on a freelance career, working with choreographers and directors such as Benjamin Millepied and Ersan Mondtag. In addition to dance, Zangs composes music for dance, performance, installation, and film — blending live improvisation and recorded material. In 2024, he released his first solo music project, Idle Hands Or, marking a more personal and independent phase of his artistic journey.