Founded in 2020 by Adriana Melo and Magnum Soares, it is amultidisciplinary structure dedicated to the creation and dissemination of original works of theater and dance. The company explores universal and contemporary themes, seeking to promote reflection on important issues of our existence, through an authorial dramaturgy and using artistic languages accessible to all. It aims to value and explore the puppets and marionettes theater, theater for childhood and youth anddance-theater.
• The Unknown Caravel (2020): marionette theater show and animated forms inspired by the work "The Tale of the Unknown Island", by José Saramago.
• Australopithecus (2021): Children’s theater show that explores the issues of difference.
• Roots (2022): dance solo that explores the impact of mining in Brazil, highlighting the disaster of Bento Rodrigues. With autobiographical elements, it connects past and present, warning of future dangers and disaster prevention.
• Augusto and Benjamim in search of Neverland (2023): a show of marionettes and animated forms that focuses on the meeting of generations, children and the elderly.
• Jacarandá (2024): puppet theatre and animated forms theatre that rethink our existence and the relationships we establish in community through behavioural and survival models of trees.
• For the pleasure of not being alone (2024): a play for adolescents about equality and sexual and gender diversity.
Director, playwright, actress and puppeteer.
Born in 1997, Mafra. She completed the Course of Performing Arts at the Professional School of Theatre of Cascais, the Degree in Theatre - Actors, at the School of Theatre and Cinema, Erasmus in the Master"Actorand Performer Training "at Rose Burford College, in London, participated in a pedagogical program for theatre students inserted in the F.I.N.D.+ festival in Berlin and completed the Postgraduate Arts of Writing at the New University of Lisbon.
Theater Teacher at the Sacred Heart of Mary
College (2021 to 2024) and promotes several theater workshops.
She worked with Carlos Avilez, Luís Miguel Cintra, Alexandra Battaglia, Jean Paul Bucchieri, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Laurinda Chiungue, Rodrigo Francisco and Miguel Linares.
Her first creation, GET OUT OF THE CLOSET!, was selected for the Young Creators Exhibition 2018.
She directed with Magnum Soares the marionette shows and animated forms of the Universo Paralelo and staged and wrote the shows Australopithecus and For the pleasure of not being alone.
Creator, puppeteer and dancer.
Born in 1996, Minas Gerais - Brazil. Started in Fine Arts with the guidance of Master Elias Layon. Graduated in Dance by Escola de Bailados de Mariana - Minas Gerais. Graduated in Marionette Theatre by Argentine Master Catin Nardi at Companhia Navegante, in which he worked in shows and street interventions. He completed the course of Dance-Theater FOR DANCE THEATRE at the Olga Roriz Company.
He's a dancer in the show Margem, by Victor Hugo Pontes (2018 to 2023), in A Laura quer! (2019) and Concerto n.º 1 para Laura (2022 to 2024), by Sílvia Real and Francisco Camacho. Interpreter in the project Pequenos Poemas do Agora - Lá Fora, by Marina Nabais (2020-2023), BRASA by Tiago Cadete (2021), Australopithecus, by Adriana Melo (2021 onwards) and Gust 9723, by Francisco Camacho (2023).
In his artistic career he has collaborations with other creators, such as Marta Jardim, Olga Roriz, Leonor Barata, Miguel Linares, Guto Martins and Tiago Cadete.
He directed with Adriana Melo the marionette shows and animated forms of the Universo Paralelo. He choreographed and performed the dance solo Roots and is a performer of the puppet solo Jacarandá.