Antonio Marotta (Naples, 1988) is a guitarist and composer mainly dedicated to electronic music, electroacoustics and free improvisation. In addition to working solo and with other musicians, he is also dedicated to music for performance. He studied guitar and jazz improvisation at the Ivan Illich Popular Music School and graduated in anthropology with a thesis in Ecological Anthropology on the relationship between man and the environment. In 2018 he worked with Teatro Arena del Sole in Bologna, on the project “100 pas presque” by choreographer Taoufiq Izeddiou. In the same year he worked with the Laudati Danza dance school (Bologna) in a research residency focused on body-sound improvisation. As a composer for dance and performance, he highlights the dance piece “It ’s a long yesterday” by Carminda Soares and Maria R. Soares presented at Teatro Municipal do Porto in March 2021; “Ensaio para um eclipse emocional” by Diogo M. Santos and Filipa Duarte, presented in February 2022 at GrETUA (Aveiro); and “Simulacro” by Carminda Soares and Margarida Montenÿ which premiered in June 2022 at Teatro Municipal do Porto.

Maria R. Soares (Ovar, 1993), dancer and creator. Of her training, she highlights the Advanced Training in Interpretation and Choreographic Creation of Companhia Instável, which she attended as a scholarship holder, and also the contemporary dance program Art Factory International, which she attended with the support of the GDA Foundation, through the award of a Qualification and Artistic Specialization Scholarship. She is also a Master in Theory of Literature and Lusophone Literatures from the University of Minho. As a dancer, she worked with Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon for Companhia Instável, Victor Hugo Pontes, Eduardo Torroja, Lara Russo, Sarah Friedland, Marianela Boán for CADAC, Catarina Miranda and also with Jorge Gonçalves, Joclécio Azevedo and Catarina Campos through the Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte company. In 2021, she creates, together with Carminda Soares, the play “It’s a long yesterday”, which is co-produced by Teatro Municipal do Porto and Companhia Instável. The project premiered on March 31, 2021 at the Teatro Municipal do Porto as part of the Palcos Instáveis cycle. In 2022, she was part of the Reclamar Tempo programme at CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto), with the “Sunday Afternoon” project, a research and investigation project that proposes the development of a transdisciplinary artistic practice of permanent dialogue between physical space and the environment. sound. She was also associated artist of Visões Úteis in 2019/2020.

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