Jonas&Lander
Jonas&Lander, a Portuguese choreographer duo, have been contributing to each other's imagination since 2011, when they began their collaboration. At the beginning of the duo's career, they stood out with "Cascas d'OvO" (2013), "Matilda Carlota" (2014), "Arrastão" (2015) and "Adorabilis" (2017). They were distinguished as “Aerowaves Priority Company” in 2014 and 2017. In 2019, they premiered "Lento e Largo", nominated by SPA for the category of Best Choreography of 2019, and "Coin Operated". In 2021, Jonas&Lander vow to rescue the lost dances of Fado, in a hybrid show between music and dance, "Bate Fado", which has been experiencing national and international success, having been named by the newspapers Expresso and Público as the best dance show of the year.
Jonas released his second album as a singer-songwriter, "Maçã d'Adão", in 2024, accompanied by the show of the same name.
Lander Patrick is currently preparing his next creation, "WonderLandi", to premiere in October 2025.
jardin&cour promotes all of the duo's projects nationally and internationally.
Catarina Miranda
Catarina Miranda is a creator whose stage work intersects movement, voice, scenography, and light, approaching the body as a vehicle for transformation and a visceral awareness of the present.
She highlights the dance pieces ΛTSUMOЯI, CABRAQIMERA, DREAM IS THE DREAMER, BOCA MURALHA, and REIPOSTO REIMORTO, presented at venues such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, PT), Serralves Museum (Porto, PT), Teatro Nacional (Porto, PT), DDD Festival (PT), Pays de Danses Festival (Liège, BE), and Julidans (Amsterdam, NL).
In the field of visual arts, she presented the installations POROMECHANICS at the Centre Pompidou, Walk&Talk Festival (Azores, PT), and Teatro São Luiz (Lisbon, PT); DIAGONALANIMAL at the Fabrik Festival (Fall River, USA); and MOUNTAIN MOUTH at Dance Box and Maizuru RB (Japan).
She is a member of the vocal collective COBRACORAL, with Clélia Colonna and Ece Canlı, with concerts at CCB, Jardins Efémeros Festival, and Tremor Festival.
Catarina completed the EXERCE Master at ICI–CCN Montpellier and holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto. She also studied Noh Theatre at the Kyoto Art Center.
She was an associated artist with the national network 5 Sentidos (2021) and the international network GrandLux (2024–2025). In 2024, she was nominated for the Salavisa European Dance Award (SEDA) by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
jardin&cour promotes the show "Cabraqimera" and the new creation "FΛRSΛ", nationally and internationally.
Rui Paixão
Rui Paixão graduated in theatre at ACE in Porto (2011-2014). He develops research and experimentation work on new possibilities for the language of physical theatre and new circus, with a focus on artistic creation for public spaces. As a creator, he stands out at the Circo do Coliseu do Porto AGEAS, where he took on the artistic direction and staging of the show "KINSKI – Roi de Rats" (2022) - premiered at LES SUBS (Lyon) -, the show "Albano" (2021), premiered at LEME as a supported artist, "Hamster Clown" (2021), co-created with Ricardo Neves-Neves, and his integration as an original creator at Cirque du Soleil (2019/20), in China, where he lived for a year.
In 2023, he joined the cast of Marlene Monteiro Freitas' show, “Lulu”, in a co-production between Wiener Festwochen and MusikTheater an der Wiencom, and in the same year he returned to Cirque du Soleil, in Orlando, to join the production "Drawn to Life".
In 2024, he premiered his new artistic creation “Furo Lento”.
jardin&cour promotes shows "Albano" and "Furo Lento" in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
