Cenith Antonia Serrudo Ebrath was born on a splendorous June 21st. She loved the Carnival of Barranquilla and its parrandera joy. Raised by her widowed father Antonio, she was one of the Serrudo sisters, with María and Dora Elena, who ran the kitchen at the Ranchito, their home in San Roque, today Barranquilla's historic center. There they mastered the caldero, a Caribbean cast-iron pot, blending their grandfather's Cuban heritage and the Ebraths' Arab traditions into coconut rice, black-eyed peas and other family delights. After marrying José Próspero Gómez and moving to Bogotá, she carried these flavors into her new home. Mother of six, she was widowed when her youngest was just five. She sewed, pawned her jewelry, and sold any kind of goods to raise her children alone. Despite the hardships, good food never left her table, and La Casa del Bosque always welcomed whoever came. 

Rosa Tulia Garcia, La Madre Rosita, was born on September 10th, 1933, in Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Life tested her early, at 15, heart surgery left a scar running from chest to back, a mark she would carry quietly for the rest of her days. Through it, her grandmother Emperatriz and her brothers held her close, wrapping her in tenderness. At 20, she married for love and became mother to five children, though one daughter was lost to illness. Her marriage, born of affection, grew heavy with mistreatment from her husband. Still, she remained gentle, finding joy in writing, hand-sewing and bicycle rides. From the 1970s, that violence slowly dimmed her light. After she divorced, she lived with one of her daughters and granddaughter, and as her health faded, her body could no longer carry the strength of her heart, until it at last gave way, on July 30th, 2022. 

Ana Lessing Menjibar is a German-Spanish performer, dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work combines the body with sound, multimedia, and sculptural elements as an expanded choreographic practice, experimenting with the transformative potential of flamenco in the context of performance and contemporary dance. Her work “Third Skin” (2023) is a poetic response to the unearthing of her family history and is dedicated to the experiences of war and fascism, collective and individual wounds, and experiences of political resistance across three generations. Her new work “REMATAR” will premiere in February 2027 at Radialsystem in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin. 

Luciane Ramos-Silva is a Brazilian performing artist, anthropologist, and independent curator. She is a professor in the Department of Body Arts at the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Through both her academic and artistic practice, she develops South–South exchanges with West Africa, conducting field research in Burkina Faso, Guinea-Conakry, and Senegal, while also performing in various spaces across the continent. Her current research and artistic interests focus on the relationships between coloniality, territory, the body, and diasporic perspectives. Among her artistic works areOlhos nas costas e um riso irônico no canto da boca (2018), Brita, lugares vermelhos e impossíveis para existir (2021), andAmor catastrófico (2022). 

Andrea Parolin is a sound engineer, technical director, and sound designer. In 2011, he graduated from the Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e nuovi Media in Milan. Since moving to Berlin in 2013, he has collaborated with choreographers and artists, including Thiago Granato, Sergiu Matis, Andrea Salustri, Mariagiulia Serantoni, Lina Gómez, and Jefta Van Dinther. 

Aduni Guedes is a percussionist and singer from northeastern Brazil who now lives in Berlin. In his music, he blends traditional Afro-Brazilian sounds with West African and modern influences. In Brazil, Aduni has already shared the stage with several big names in the Brazilian music scene, including Vitor Araújo, Grupo Höröyá, Ekò Afrobeat, and Baby do Brasil (Novos Baianos). 

Bruno Pocheron works internationally as a freelance lighting, stage, and sound designer. He creates performative installations based on his work with lighting. He is currently involved in stage projects with Mette Edvardsen (Oslo), Stina Fors (Vienna), Ted Hearne and Daniel Fish (USA), Lina Gómez (Berlin), Daphna Horenczyck (Vienna), Rotraud Kern (Vienna), Isabelle Schad (Berlin), and Malte Schlösser (Berlin). 

Reiner Törner is a Berlin-based costume and fashion designer. In his work, he views clothing as a language of the body and of space. His works, created in close dialogue with movement, regard the costume not as adornment, but as an active structure within the performance. 

Thomas Schaupp is a dance dramaturg and curator. Since 2010, he has been collaborating internationally with choreographers and institutions in Europe and beyond. He regularly serves as a consultant in mentoring programs at choreographic institutions and as a guest lecturer at academies such as the Icelandic University of the Arts in Reykjavík.