BoCA is a non-profit association founded in 2015 and based in Lisbon. Through a transdisciplinary perspective, of hybridization and breaking boundaries, contemporary creation is the core part of its mission. It focuses on transdisciplinarity and develops a diverse cultural ecosystem based on synergies between cities, between cultural facilities and public spaces, between artistic territories and their respective audiences.
BoCA develops its activities through five axes:
• commission and production of artistic projects;
• regular programming;
• programming of the BoCA contemporary arts biennial;
• national and international dissemination;
• educational program.
jardin&cour distributes all projects produced by BoCA (2025) internationally.
Dino D'Santiago
Dino D'Santiago is a Portuguese-Cape Verdean musician and activist who fuses soul, hip-hop and traditional rhythms such as Batuku and Funaná.
He has been widely recognized with awards such as Play, MTV EMA, and Cabo Verde Music Awards. With albums such as Mundu Nôbu, Kriola and Badiu, he has established himself as an influential voice of Creole culture. Founder of the Lisboa Criola project, he has been distinguished by MIPAD, Forbes and the Portuguese Government for his cultural and social action.
In 2022, he was a member of the jury of The Voice and led the curation of the Gulbenkian Summer Gardens.
In 2023 he was chosen by Expresso as one of the 50 figures who could define the future of Portugal.
jardin&cour distributes the show "Adilson", produced by BoCA, nationally and internationally.
Tânia Carvalho & Rocío Guzmán
Tânia Carvalho was born in Viana do Castelo and lives in Lisbon. As a choreographer, with a career spanning over twenty years of creation, she has been a regular presence in theaters, festivals and artistic residencies, both in Portugal and abroad.
Rocío Guzmán is an artist and singer with roots in the art of flamenco and traditional Andalusian music since childhood. She has a degree in contemporary dance and physical theater. As a stage artist, she combines movement and voice pieces, and studies and delves into Sephardic music, Arab and flamenco cultures, music with Latin American roots, jazz, free improvisation, and video creation.
jardin&cour distributes the duo's new creation, produced by BoCA, internationally.
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Alberto Cortés & João Gabriel
Alberto Cortés is a director, writer and performer. He graduated in directing and theatre from ESAD in Málaga and in art history from UMA. In 2009, he began his theatrical career by creating a hybrid and peripheral form of theatre, which he has continued to develop over time. Striving to maintain hope in the intangible, the spiritual and the human, his work has developed over the years through a variety of formats and disciplines (theatre, dance, performance, folklore – flamenco). His works treat the stage as a space for romantic desire and the relationship with the audience.
João Gabriel is a Portuguese post-war and contemporary artist. He has a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Fine Arts from ESAD, Caldas da Rainha (PT). His most striking works are the ethereal male nudes suspended in moments of intimacy, which, although absent of sex, depict tender encounters: a kiss, an embrace, or something in between.
jardin&cour distributes the duo's new creation, produced by BoCA, internationally.
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Niño de Elche &
Pedro G. Romero
Niño de Elche is an undisciplined artist and former flamenco who manages to combine, in his different artistic proposals, genres such as flamenco, free improvisation, krautrock or electronic, electroacoustic or contemporary music with poetry, performance, dance or theatre.
Pedro G. Romero is a researcher, curator and has worked as an artist since 1985. His work formalizes a critical analysis of certain concerns, such as historical passages and events, the circulation of images, sacred iconography, flamenco culture, the iconoclastic gesture of the artistic avant-garde of the 20th century, the History of Modern Art, popular culture, cultural policies, the transformations of urban spaces, among others.
jardin&cour distributes the duo's new creation, produced by BoCA, internationally.
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Tiago Rodrigues, Angélica Liddell, Patrícia Portela & Rodrigo García
Tiago Rodrigues is a Portuguese actor, director, playwright and theatre producer. He served as artistic director of the company Mundo Perfeito - a structure he created in 2003 with Magda Bizarro and with which he performed around 30 shows. In July 2021, he was appointed artistic director of the Festival d'Avignon, in France.
Angélica Liddell is a Spanish playwright, actress, stage director and theatre producer. She is known for her company Atra Bilis Teatro, founded in 1993, and for her works that explore themes such as death, sex, violence and the dark nature of the human condition.
Patrícia Portela is an author and creator of transdisciplinary performances and installations. She studied scenography, film, dance and philosophy in Lisbon, Utrecht, London, Denmark, Helsinki and Leuven.
Rodrigo García is a playwright, director and set designer, founder of the company La Carniceria Teatro in Madrid in the 90s. Known for innovative and experimental plays, presented at prestigious festivals and theaters around the world.
jardin&cour promotes the new creation, produced by BoCA, internationally.
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Kiluanji Kia Henda
Kiluanji Kia Henda, born in 1979 in Angola, is a visual artist who lives and works between Luanda and Lisbon. He uses art as a means to explore complex themes such as identity, politics and perceptions of post-independence and modernism in Africa. Kia Henda is known for his multidisciplinary approach, using photography, video, performance and installation to create fictional narratives and displace historical facts into different temporalities.
jardin&cour distributes the new theatrical creation and installation, produced by BoCA, internationally.
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Elena Córdoba & Francisco Camacho
Elena Córdoba is a Spanish dancer and choreographer who focuses on the observation of the body as the main subject of her work. She also dedicates herself to dance pedagogy and collaborates with other artists and filmmakers on various projects.
Francisco Camacho is a choreographer, dancer, founding member and artistic director of EIRA. He is internationally recognized as one of the protagonists of the contemporary dance movement that began in the late 1980s in Portugal, performing in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
jardin&cour promotes the duo's new creation, produced by BoCA, internationally.
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New Creation