Tamara Alegre (IC/CH)
she/they

Tamara Alegre works with dance and choreography. Born in Gran Canaria, they studied European Business and Psychology and worked as an underground music curator, dj and tour manager until 2016.

In 2018, she obtained an MA in Choreography at DOCH, Stockholm and premiered FIEBRE, co-signed since 2019, with Lydia Östberg Diakité, Marie Ursin, Nunu Flashdem and Célia Lutangu. The work has been presented in several venues in Europe and won the Young Choreographer's Award in 2021.Their research revolves around sensual embodiments, fictions on sexuality/sexual organs and liminal physical states as choreographic tools. Her works are embodied and charged with resistance, intensity, self-pleasure and the power of dancing together.

Tamara has a growing passion for Dancehall and questions how to position themselves as a white person having access to black culture. As well as how to navigate between their work and Dancehall. The combination of working as a dancer, making work, hosting workshops and being involved in collaborative practices is essential for her.

Élie Autin (she/her) is a model, dancer and artist. Autin studied contemporary dance at the Manufacture HES-SO in Lausanne. Directly after obtaining her diploma, Autin worked on various artistic creations and productions within theatre, dance and performance as a performer, but also as creator and co-creator. Autin has worked with Tamara Alegre, Marvin M’Toumo, Natasza Gerlach, Caner Teker, Juliette Uzor, Nagi Gianni, Alexandre Doublet among others. Recently she exhibited her first sculpture installation at a group exhibition at La Rada in Locarno, Switzerland and is now starting to develop artistic work in new directions.

Cuba (she/her) is a multidisciplinary dancer and singer based in Alicante. Beginning with an urban dance training, she specialised in Twerk and joined the Twerk Up collective. She became a teacher of this practice and subsequently collaborated with multiple artists such as Kid Keo, Kalash Krimiel, Jedet and others on video clips and during tours. Cuba also works as a stripper in Miami and is currently a dancer for the international tour of Karol G.

Malik Nashad Sharpe (they/him) is an award-winning choreographer and movement director known for his provocative and formally engaging performance works that address themes of violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, and the horizon. He frequently choreographs under his alias, Marikiscrycrycry. He has received commissions and shown his work at venues and festivals across theU.K., Europe, and Canada, and is currently an Associate Artist at The Place and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios. He has held artistic residencies at Sadlers Wells, Barbican, Performance Situation Room, Dance4, Duckie, and Tate Modern.

He holds a BA in Experimental Dance with highest honours from Williams College and a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, where he won the Simone Michele Prize for Outstanding Choreography. In 2019, he was named a Rising Star in Dance by Attitude Magazine and in 2022, he was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his unique and pervasive choreographic achievements. He currently lives in London and is a guest professor in dance and performance at the Stockholm University of Arts in Sweden.

Marga Alfeirão (Lisbon,1994) uses media to carve safe-spaces for the exploration of intimacy and sexuality through dance and performance. Heavily influenced by dance-genres and sound textures from the african diaspora disseminated through Lisbon’s social tissue, she attempts an active claim of womanhood, making room for lesbian sensualities.

LOUNGE was awarded the Young Choreographers Prize in 2023, Impulstanz. Currently she is developing her new work on cheesiness, geographies and heartbreak with dancers Myriam Lucas, Mariana Benengue and herself, dj's Vanyfox and Shaka Lion and writers Filipa da Rocha Nunes and Candice Nembhard to premiere in December.