Ana Rita Xavier & Daniel Conant

Ana Rita Xavier (they/them), Portugal. Settled in Porto, ze dedicates hirself to learning, research, performance and creation in the field of performance. Hir artistic quest finds a more harmonious place when practices are directed in a horizontal, empathetic way and in search of sincere, deep, unsettling and strange places. Ze has been collaborating as a co-creator performer with national artists since 2017 and has been developing hir work as a creator since 2019.

Daniel Conant (he/his) was born in Canada. He is a performer and choreographer who lives between Berlin and Munich. Since completing his training at the London Contemporary Dance School and the Codarts University of the Arts in 2017, he worked as a freelance contemporary dance artist in Sicily, Rotterdam and London before settling in Germany. After seven years performing all over Europe for other artists, he began focusing on his own choreographic practice, as well as performing and collaborating with other artists.