Antonio Onio & Bráulio Bandeira

It is an exotic landscape which seems monotonous but which has the potential within it for abrupt change. What the two performers try to do with the choreography is to create new concepts of exoticism. These new concepts,based on the authors’ own pasts, are created on stage and then left to confront each other in a live performance. 

António Onio studied dance at SNDO in Amsterdam. Since 2011, he has concentrated on his own projects, also working with dancers such as Miguel Pereira, Tian Rotteveel, Igor Dobricic, Florentina Holzinger, Maria Metsalu and Young Boy Dancing Group. The main focus of his art has been the brutal and constant questioning between the barriers separating the public, the personal and the private, the trans-disciplinary nature of performance, the body as source of social and moral questioning, and the seeking of vulnerability, delicacy and failure as performance weapons in the struggle against patriarchal society. In addition to performing, he also works as an event organiser in Berlin and has a musical project called VVICKY.

Bráulio Bandeira is a multi-disciplinary artist. He first studied theatrical interpretation in Portugal at ESMAE, before going on to study physical theatre in Denmark. He later took a degree in dance and anthropology under Maguy Marin in Lyon. His spreads his time between working with the Matanicola dance company, Macha Makeieff’s dance theatre, Oliver Py’s operas and developing his own creations. Bráulio is an electronic music producer and DJwho performs under the name DEEPNEUE.