Paula Chaves Bonilla is a Colombian director, choreographer, performer and activist based in Amsterdam. In The Netherlands she made: Paraart, Against The Wall, Down is Up and Omni Toxica while joining Amanda Piña’s long-term project Endangered Human Movements as a dancer and assistant choreographer. Chaves Bonilla’s artistic research studies the relation between art, propaganda and neoliberalism to map and expose how the commodification of art -aka ‘artwashing’- operates as a neocolonial technology of distraction, control and discipline. Her works have been shown in festivals such as: Moving Futures (Amsterdam), Theater Aan Zee (Oostende), CALA Festival (Cori) & Welcome to our guest house (Rotterdam).
www.paulachaves.net

Thais Di Marco is from the City of São Paulo, Brazil, currently based in Amsterdam. She is performer, theater director, teacher, choreographer and project coordinator with 12 years of professional career working mostly in contexts such as creative platforms, social movements and independent spaces focused on critical thinking, LGBTQ+ communities and anti-capitalist struggle. One of her most important works was the development of Power Practices counter-training, a practice to face police violence turning performing arts into a survival auxiliary technology to populations under extreme conditions of state violence. This work was lately shared in: México, Benin, Iran, Germany and The Netherlands.
www.thaisdimarco.com.br