João dos Santos Martins was born in 1989 in Santarém. He studied dance and choreography in several institutions in Europe, including P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. He works as a choreographer and performer since 2008, articulating his practice among diverse collaborations, expressed in pieces such as Le Sacre du Printemps (2013) with Min Kyoung Lee, Autointitulado (2015) with Cyriaque Villemaux and Anthroposcenes with Rita Natálio, premiering in 2017 He also collaborated with Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Teatro Praga, Rui Horta, Ana Borralho and João Galante. His piece Continued Project (2015) was awarded "Best Choreography" by the Portuguese Society of Authors in 2016, the year in which he had the opportunity to direct Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Paulo Ribeiro and Clara Andermatt at the Reencontro event in Viseu. His work was presented in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Romania, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Republic of Korea and New Zealand.

Cyriaque Villemaux (1988, Offenburg) studied contemporary dance at the Conservatoire Natinal Supérieure de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In 2012, he graduated from P.A.R.T.S.
His collaborative works FR/PT and G # $ * &!/Disagreement/How to dance things with doing were part of events like the Festival d'Automne de Paris (2012) and Tanz im August (2012). Cyriaque Villemaux worked with Noé Soulier (Little perceptions), Xavier Le Roy (Rétrospective) at Centre Pompidou and with Pierre Leguillon (La grande évasion, 2015) at Centre Nacional de la Danse. In 2013, together with Julie Kowalczyk he created the children book Carte in the Musée de la Danse, Rennes, CCN.
An antic version of this CV mentioned his interest for translation. This latter was actualized at the occasion of the book Rétrospective by Xavier Le Roy, in which he translated into French the interviews between Xavier Le Roy and Bojana Cvejic (2013).
Cyriaque Villemaux was a resident artist of the Akademie Schloss Solitude between 2014 and 2015, where he made The Stuttgart Pieces and Covers in collaboration with Néstor Garcia Diaz and Boglarka Borcsok.