Artistic and Technical Team
VORTEXXX 0.0
Dancers & Creators
Bárbara Henriques
Graduated in Dance from the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa (2018–2021), following a formative path rooted in the RAD method (2007–2018), she shapes her journey between technical precision and embodied sensitivity.
She is both dancer and teacher — two spaces she inhabits with equal dedication. Teaching Classical and Contemporary Dance, she merges pedagogy with creation, giving rise to works such as “Sim–Não–Nim” and “Mesmo parada estás no espaço”, among other choreographic pieces developed for studios and schools (2021–2025).
As a performer, she moves across diverse artistic landscapes and languages, participating in “A Ilha” by Víctor Hugo Pontes and Marco da Silva Ferreira, “A Carta de Smith” by the group 37.25, and “6 para 6” by Maria João Gouveia (2021–2023). She also performed in the opera “Orfeu e Eurídice” with the Sinfonietta of Ponta Delgada at Teatro Micaelense (2022), in the performance “Na Terra e no Ar com Água e Fogo” at Jardim José do Canto (2022), in “Half-Heard” by Jenny Rocha (2021), in the Compota Project “UM+UM=UM” (2020–2021), and in the music video “Melodia” by Sarcy J. (2020).
In 2023, she created the solo “Outro”, presented at the Festival de Solos – Singularidades (February 2024, São Miguel), and in 2024 developed a new creation for the 25th anniversary celebration of Wondercom.
Alongside her artistic practice, she expands her perspective through production and stage direction, exploring the construction of performative space beyond the dancing body.
Since 2016, she has continued to nurture her practice through workshops and masterclasses in classical and contemporary dance, jazz, hip hop, improvisation and bodyfulness — a continuous path of listening and transformation — highlighting her work with Amélia Bentes, Ana Cymbron, Ana Moreno, Bárbara Griggi, Cristina Graça, Inês Pedruco, Maria João Gouveia, Sylvia Rijmer and Vítor Garcia.
Beatriz Fernandes
"Bea"
Born in Lisbon on October 28, 2003, and raised between the warm lights of Vila Real de Santo António, her path has been shaped by movement from an early age.
She has been dancing since the age of three — from the pulse of Flamenco to the energy of Hip Hop — where the body first learned to listen and respond to the rhythm of the world.
At 21, in search of a revolution of the body, she finds in the circus a new breath — a place where the everyday transforms into narrative and risk becomes language. Between juggling and aerial apparatus, she discovers in Lisbon a space of belonging, challenge and transformation.
Today, she inhabits this intersection between technical rigor and the freedom of the circus, creating invisible bridges where her art expands — in movement, in color, in presence.
Carlos Lebre
"Caco"
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Known as Caco, he is a 24 year-old artist — circus performer, acrobat, juggler, dancer, and a creator of worlds in motion.
His training journey moves across different territories of expression, having studied in various renowned institutions where he deepened his language in circus arts, performance and dance. Among them, the Conservatório de Dança de Lisboa, Boot Camp Jukebox and Chapitô (2017–2021), where he strengthened his connection to the world of circus.
It was in 2010 that he first crossed paths with Rita Spider — an encounter that evolved into a continuous exchange of learning, collaboration and shared growth over the years.
Today, he stands as a creative performer — a body in constant reinvention — a circus artist and dancer, also collaborating as an assistant to Rita Spider across multiple artistic projects, where movement expands beyond itself into creation and connection.
Cindy June
Pacote Completo
A dancer with a path rooted in street dance, she carries within her body the living imprints of hip-hop culture.
Her movement emerges from a raw and grounded place — a territory where authenticity prevails and the body speaks before form. It is within this space that she builds her language, between weight, impulse and presence.
Music guides her. In groove, she finds home; in flow, she finds direction — and through this continuous dialogue, her expression becomes organic, pulsating, inevitable.
VORTEXXX 0.0 revealed itself as a singular journey — a dive into her own essence, where movement became a mirror and the body a territory of discovery and transformation.
Filipa
"Fifi"
A 28-year-old dancer, driven by an restless curiosity and an innate desire to move — as if her body had always known the way.
She began her journey at the age of 9, when she asked her parents to enroll her in Hip Hop classes — the first conscious gesture of a connection that already existed.
At 18, she was drawn into Dancehall, expanding her body into new textures and rhythms.
At 23, her perspective shifted entirely: she found her place in sharing, joining a crew and a competition group, where movement became collective, alive, and pulsating.
Her search extends beyond borders, deepening into different urban styles, and leading her into freestyle — a space where the body listens, responds, and reveals itself without filter.
The arts have always been her territory.
But it is in nature that she finds herself whole — raw, essential, true.
Between the sea and the wind, she recognizes her purest form.
Freedom is her axis.
Not as a concept, but as a state.
A place she always returns to — and one she never truly left.
Inês Cordeiro
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Born in Faro, with roots in Vila Real de Santo António, her path began to take shape from a very early age.
She began her relationship with dance at just two and a half years old, at the Conservatório Regional de VRSA, through the first gestures of baby class — an almost instinctive beginning, where the body learns before it understands. She then continues through classical ballet and contemporary dance, languages she still deepens and inhabits.
Throughout her journey, she moves across multiple worlds of movement — from Horton technique to Afro dance, from European traditions to medieval dances, also embracing urban languages. Each encounter becomes expansion, refined through training, courses and workshops, in a continuous path of discovery and transformation.
Joana Maia
Pacote Completo
Teacher, dancer and choreographer, she moves between creation and sharing as natural extensions of her journey.
Founder of Nonstop and co-founder of Nona Companhia, she creates spaces where movement becomes encounter, language and identity. Holding a degree in Dance from the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, she continues to nourish her practice through various artistic training projects, in an ongoing path of research and expansion.
Dance, music and cinema inhabit her imagination — influences that intersect and resonate within her way of creating and thinking movement.
Throughout her career, she has brought her work into diverse contexts, teaching in schools such as Arcade, Udance, among others, and performing on stages like Coliseu dos Recreios and Sol da Caparica. She has also choreographed a piece for the final graduation performance at World Academy, among other projects that shape her trajectory.
Driven by constant curiosity and a desire for reinvention, she finds in challenge a creative force. It is through this impulse that she begins her journey in VORTEXXX — a new space of exploration, risk and transformation.
Júlio Núncio
Holding a degree in Communication and Multimedia, he found in this intersection the harmony between word, image and gesture — a space where communication becomes body and visual expression.
Dance has lived within him since an early age, in the vivid memories of backyard gatherings, to the sound of Angolan and Brazilian rhythms — an organic beginning, where movement emerges from sharing and celebration. In 2009, he began his formal training, starting with Hip Hop and later, in 2012, deepening his language through House Dance, where he discovered a new dimension of listening and freedom.
He created Dancetellers as a video-dance project — a bridge between image and movement — which today stands as a collective, a crew rooted in street dance and clubbing culture.
As a Movement practitioner, he sees the body as an indivisible whole. For him, there is no training — only practice, presence and continuity.
He was part of the first edition of VORTEXXX, where he left a question that continues to echo:
And you… what is your superpower?
Júlia
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A Lebanese-Ivorian dancer, she moves between cultures as one moves through rhythms, guided by a belief in the transformative power of dance and meditation.
She began her journey in childhood, in Ivory Coast, between the discipline of classical dance and the energy of jazz — where the body first awakens to listening, expression and feeling.
Along her path, she immerses herself in languages rooted in memory and history — from Afro-Cuban rhythms to Afro-urban dances, from salsa to hip hop, among other social dances — shaping a body that carries multiple geographies. In parallel, she deepens the healing dimension of movement through the practice of Five Rhythms, where dance becomes both ritual and transformation.
As a performer, she has taken part in various artistic productions, notably collaborating with the Flair Dance Company at Teatro Camões in Lisbon.
Guided by intuition and curiosity, she finds in improvisation a territory of freedom and creation — a space where the body reveals itself without boundaries, as in the project VORTEXXX 0.0.
Juliana
At just 17, she arrives from Alcains, near Castelo Branco, carrying with her a path that began very early — at the age of 3, when her body first found expression through classical ballet and contemporary dance.
Between discipline and discovery, she gradually shaped her own language, also sharing her knowledge as a ballet teacher at Academia de Dança Maria Francisca.
Later, she takes a new step and joins Chapitô, where she immerses herself in the world of circus arts — a territory of risk, expansion and reinvention — marking the beginning of her artistic journey.
Margarida Reis
"Meg"
She has been dancing since the age of 6 — a simple, almost quiet beginning, in classes at the nearest gym, without yet imagining that this gesture would become an essential part of her path.
Over time, movement takes on another dimension: group hip-hop competitions emerge, along with intensive training and a first encounter with street dance — not only as technique, but as culture, identity and language.
In 2022, she discovers freestyle — a turning point. Dance ceases to be only form and becomes listening, presence, choice. A space where the body reveals and transforms itself.
Since then, she has been diving deeper into the exploration of movement and expression, expanding her artistic possibilities.
Battles become her territory — a place of confrontation, growth and affirmation — where each dance is a living dialogue between who she is and who she is becoming.
Pedro Esteves
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He is 21 years old and comes from Vila Franca de Xira — a place he carries within him, yet one that has already expanded far beyond where he began.
He is energy in motion: curious, communicative, restless — someone who constantly seeks to understand how the world works, how things connect, how everything transforms.
Among many interests, there is one that runs through him entirely: dance.
More than a choice, it is a path that shapes him — a language through which he builds, questions and reinvents himself. Much of who he is today emerges from this continuous encounter with movement.
Throughout his journey, he has followed different paths — some guided by responsibility, others by discovery — but always driven by a deep desire to learn, to absorb, to grow.
His crew holds a central place in this path — a space of belonging, confrontation and evolution. With them, he took his first creative steps: recording his first videos, creating his first piece, and finding a mirror where he could become closer to who he is — and who he wants to be.
It is also through this collective force that he now finds himself in VORTEXXX — a territory he recognizes as transformative, where body, mind and experience expand across multiple layers.
Pi Amaro
Pacote Completo
Artist of the body and movement.
Dancer, creator and cultural producer, she builds her path through listening — to the body, to lived experience, and to the relationships woven between art, community and consciousness.
Graduated in Dance from the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH), she develops a practice rooted in urban dance and contemporary performance, where gesture becomes language and movement a territory of research and presence.
Throughout her journey, she moves across different contexts as a dancer and performer, collaborating in artistic projects, campaigns and large-scale events. She has worked with brands and institutions such as Nike, Sumol, Turismo de Portugal, Rock in Rio, Yorn and Pioneer, as well as with various artists from both national and international music scenes. Between festivals, tours, music videos and brand activations, she inhabits large stages where the body asserts itself as a medium of communication, memory and narrative. Her practice balances rigor and adaptability, without losing a sensitive, authorial and deeply rooted identity.
She is co-founder, creator and producer of Mind Meets Body, an artistic mediation project where dance emerges as a central language, in dialogue with other forms of expression — music, sound, word, video and visual arts. MMB establishes itself as a space of encounter and listening, where collective creation becomes a tool for connection between artists, audiences and territories.
In the pedagogical and cultural field, her path expands into training, management and artistic direction. She was President of the Associação Conservatório Regional de VRSA, a specialized arts school in music, where she also teaches dance. In Lisbon, she developed a consistent teaching practice in public schools, at Ginásio Clube Português (GCP), Cifrão Dance School and Oeiras Dance Academy, where she coordinated the competition department.
Later, she took on the role of Senior Cultural Officer, working in artistic direction at Centro Cultural António Aleixo (CCAA), continuing to build bridges between creation, community and artistic thought.
Rafael Lourenço
"Rafa"
He is 26 years old and has been dancing since the age of 8 — a journey that began almost by chance, accompanying his sister to a training session with the group Dance4fun. Since then, he never stopped.
Throughout his path of discovery, he moved through different spaces and encounters, training alongside Vasco Alves — someone who expanded his horizons and revealed that dance was a vast universe still waiting to be explored.
Along the way, he had the opportunity to learn from people he deeply admires, such as Marco ABS, Leo, Rita Spider, among many others — encounters that shaped his body, his vision and his presence.
It was also on this journey that he discovered the competitive side of dance — and found something that fascinated him: not just the competition itself, but the raw and genuine sharing of those who dance to express who they are. It is at this moment that he joins Jazzy Dance Crew and connects with the one he now calls his brother — Júlio Núncio, Moksha.
In 2019, he finds home in the crew Dancetellers — a place he recognizes as family, led by Moksha, where movement gains an even deeper collective meaning.
On and off stage, he builds his path with dedication and consistency. He wins battles such as Jazzy Battle (2023 and 2025), ADA (2024) and King of the Ring (2025). Beyond borders, he reaches the semi-finals of A Day with the Street (Italy, 2025) and the finals of Soul Sessions (Oslo, 2025) — experiences that expand both his journey and his vision.
He is also part of artistic projects that mark his path, such as the first edition of VORTEXXX (2023) and U_Realities (2024), both created by Rita Spider — spaces where the body transforms, questions and reinvents itself.
Rita Sousa
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Professional dancer, choreographer and fire artist — she moves between form and risk, where the body meets the flame and gesture transforms into presence.
Holding a degree in Dance and Performance from The Arden School of Theatre (UK), she builds a path marked by versatility and a continuous search for new languages, where technique expands into experience.
Her practice moves across different territories — from performance to entertainment, from teaching to creation — inhabiting both stage and encounter as spaces of living expression.
Within her journey, a strong creative connection with Rita Spider stands out, having been part of the casts of VORTEXXX and U_Realities in 2023. She now returns to this universe for a new immersive passage in VORTEXXX 0.0, where the body reinvents itself in dialogue with the unknown.
In the audiovisual field, she also appears in the miniseries Intermitências do Tédio, a collaboration between Staples and Bumba na Fofinha — expanding her presence beyond the stage.
Sara Coelho
Pacote Completo
She is 34 years old and carries within dance a continuous thread that runs through her life — a constant presence, a place of return.
She was born in Alentejo, where her first movements took shape in childhood, within a body that early on learned to listen. Later, she moved to Lisbon, deepening her path at the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH), where practice gains structure and awareness.
She joins the Amalgama Dance Company, under the direction of Alexandra Battaglia, inhabiting different stages and experiences that expand her perspective. Among them, a journey to Taiwan stands out, where she collaborates with Dancecology — an encounter that broadens not only her artistic language, but also her relationship with the world and with others.
In sharing, she also finds an essential space. She completes the Creative Dance Instructor course, opening paths to transmit, guide and build bridges with different bodies and trajectories.
More recently, she becomes part of Mind Meets Body II, with choreographer Rita Spider — a territory of encounter between body, consciousness and creation, where she continues to deepen her listening and transformation.
José Gonçalves
"Seph"
He is a movement artist whose practice emerges from the meeting of body, rhythm and musicality — a space where gesture listens before it exists.
With roots in Portuguese traditional dances and hip-hop culture — particularly breaking — he found in dance a living territory of continuous exploration, where the body discovers and reinvents itself in every moment.
Today, he dives into club culture as one searches for home. Through house music and house dance, he deepens his connection to sound and the vibration of the present — an ephemeral space where time dissolves and movement becomes pure presence.
Breaking remains his foundation — a base that sustains and expands his movement vocabulary, opening pathways through level changes and fluid, light, almost breath-like floorwork.
Guided by the moon, he moves between the ground and the infinite.
Between gravity and suspension, between weight and surrender, he approaches dance as a ritual of freedom — a space where being, feeling and transformation become one.
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Technical Team & Creators
Motion graphics - Multimedia
David Ventura
He is a digital artist who inhabits the threshold between the visible and the invisible, exploring matter as a field shaped by the laws — and the flaws — of physics. Gravity, particles and time cease to be fixed structures and become territories of distortion, stretched to the point where the invisible reveals itself within the anatomy of the visible.
Holding a degree in Multimedia Design from ESAD CR, in Caldas da Rainha (2007), he began his professional path at Dub Video Connection, where, between 2008 and 2013, he developed his work as a motion designer. He also led the visual department, creating stage design and VJ sets for renowned festivals such as Neo Pop, Time Warp and ADE. His visuals accompanied tours of artists such as Sven Väth, Loco Dice, Dubfire and Matador, expanding the sonic experience into an immersive visual dimension.
In 2013, he presented “Trans Ora”, a multimedia performance inspired by the Portuguese landscape, where real images dissolve into abstract patterns, synchronized with sound, evoking the chaotic nature of living systems. The work was presented at international festivals such as FILE (Brazil), Scopitone (Nantes), Mirage (Lyon) and Madeira Dig.
From 2017 onwards, he deepened his research into the intersection of space and time through installations of light, video and sound. In these works, he challenges conventional perception, drawing inspiration from gravitational systems and physics as a unifying geometric language. One of these installations was featured in The New Art Fest (2018), at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, curated by António Cerveira Pinto.
In 2018, he developed a series of videos exploring the deceleration of time — a continuous present where forms emerge, suspending linear logic. These works were exhibited at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento, curated by Samuel Rama.
Since 2017, he has maintained an ongoing collaboration with Rita Spider, contributing motion graphics to creations such as EMO’IRTUAL, Due’irtual and U_REALITIES, among others — where image becomes an extension of the body and the digital breathes in dialogue with movement.
Photography
Dinis Rosa
Filmmaker, director of photography and camera operator, trained at ETIC, he builds his path at the intersection of cinema, documentary, music and performance — territories where image becomes breath and time a malleable substance.
His work reveals a sensitive listening to rhythm, light and the construction of moving narratives, where each frame seeks not only to show, but to feel.
Throughout his journey, he moves across multiple visual worlds: from directing music videos and documentaries to projects that capture the pulse of communities and places. Notable are his works connected to the motorcycling universe — from Motoclubes to the Faro International Motorcycle Rally — as well as portrayals of nightlife in Portimão, where image merges with atmosphere and spatial energy.
He also films sports events, festivals and live concerts, collaborating with artists such as Ana Moura and Rodrigo Leão, and creating audiovisual and photographic works with musicians like Valter Lobo. Between multicamera productions, private events and hybrid formats, he develops a versatile language that adapts without losing its identity.
In November 2025, he joins the jury of the Samhain Baucogna International Film Fest in Vila Real de Santo António — a platform dedicated to emerging voices and new cinematic languages.
In 2026, he participates in the VII Cross-Border Contemporary Art Fair — TRANSARCO, in Huelva — presenting a photographic exhibition within a curatorial context of artistic dialogue between the Algarve and Andalusia.
He is the director of photography and videographer of Mind Meets Body, with creative direction by Rita Spider and executive production by Pi Amaro, and more recently assumes the role of director of photography for VORTEXXX 0.0 — where image expands beyond the screen, in dialogue with body, space and experience.
Set Design
Nucha
Set designer, production assistant, visual artist, restorer, decorative painter, art historian and dancer — she moves across disciplines as one who builds spaces of encounter between matter, memory and the body.
She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Stage Design at ESTC, expanding her research into space as a living site of creation.
For several years, she worked with teams dedicated to architectural restoration, intervening in spaces rich with history — such as the Episcopal Palace of Porto, the Garcia de Resende Theatre in Évora, the Pena Palace in Sintra, and the facilities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Places where time inscribes itself onto surfaces, and where the act of restoration becomes a dialogue between past and present. In parallel, she develops individual work in decorative painting and restoration, continuing this intimate relationship with matter.
It is, however, in the intersection with dance that her path finds a new dimension. Her encounter with dancer and choreographer Rita Spider, over a decade ago, opened a path of continuous collaboration, where scenography emerges organically — as an extension of the body and of creation.
As a set designer and production assistant, she has contributed to works such as Smile, Time, Duel’irtual, Emo’irtual, U_Realities, The Journey Man, as well as immersive performances including VORTEXXX, Hotel Edadrebil I & II, and more recently, VORTEXXX 0.0.
In her work, she seeks to listen to choreographic proposals and translate them into space — creating singular atmospheres where the environment does not merely host movement, but amplifies, transforms and reveals it.
Lighting & Sound
Pedro Pinto
Known in the music world as Reflect, he is the founder of the Algarve-based label Kimahera and director of Emotion Dance Academy — spaces where sound, body and vision converge.
With over two decades of experience as a producer, he moves between studio and stage, inhabiting both intimate creation and the construction of large-scale music and dance performances.
Trained in Sound and Lighting Design at Restart, he merges technical precision with artistic sensitivity, specializing in timecode-based lighting programming — where time becomes structure and light an extension of music.
Since 2013, he has been sharing his knowledge as an instructor at ETIC_Algarve and Restart, guiding new generations in the discovery of sound, light and creation.
He debuted in 2008 with the album Último Acto, and since then has performed on some of the country’s most prominent stages — MEO Sudoeste, Festival Iminente, Casa da Música, Festival MED and Teatro das Figuras — carrying a sonic identity that expands with each performance.
Live, he collaborates with musicians and orchestras, building soundscapes that breathe together. More recently, he has taken on the technical production — sound and lighting — for the performances of Emotion Dance Academy, where technology and art align to give form to the experience.
Stage Direction Assistant
Beatriz Cruz
Beatriz Cruz is a young Portuguese professional devoted to Arts Management and the Creative Production of events and performances. Holding a Master’s degree from University College Cork, in Ireland, and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from NOVA FCSH, she has shaped a path defined by versatility, precision and a deep-rooted passion for the arts.
Along her journey, she has collaborated with leading institutions in Ireland, such as Cork Opera House and the Towers & Tales festival, moving between roles as Production Assistant, Stage Manager and Artist Liaison. Within these spaces, she navigates the invisible architecture of performance — coordinating teams, shaping rehearsals and supporting the creative flow of live productions.
In Portugal, her path also unfolds through the Escola de Dança Ana Kohler and the hospitality sector, where she strengthens her sensitivity to communication, care and the dynamics of human interaction.
A dancer since the age of three and a member of the Conseil International de la Danse (UNESCO), Beatriz carries within her a natural sense of structure and attention, combined with openness, initiative and an ease in building meaningful professional connections.
With an international outlook and a multidisciplinary background, she seeks to contribute to cultural projects that honour creativity, engage audiences and expand the social resonance of the arts.