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.
Formiga Atómica
Formiga Atómica is a theatre company founded and directed by Miguel Fragata and Inês Barahona. Their work stems from contemporary issues and is aimed at audiences of all ages, developing each creation from research processes linked to the themes and contexts in which they are situated.
Highlights of his career include shows such as "The Elephants' Walk" (2013), "Beyond the Forest, the World" (2016), "Roller Coaster" (2018), "Fake" (2020), "The State of the World (When You Wake Up)" (2021), "Bad Education – A Play in 3 Rounds" (2022) and "Terminal (The State of the World)" (2024).
The company tours regularly both nationally and internationally, having developed French versions of several shows - "La Marche des Éléphants", "Au-Delà de la Forêt, le Monde" and "L'État du Monde (Un dur réveil)" - as well as Spanish versions "La caminata de los elefantes" and "Así está el mundo [cuando despiertas]" and German version "Die Wanderung der Elefanten".
The latest creation from Formiga Atómica is "Just Another Seagull", (2025), adapted into French under the title "Encore une Mouette".
jardin&cour is promoting the French version of the new creation, "Encore une Mouette", in France.
