Who we are

Danças Que Tem Feito (DQTF) is a dance creation, production and training platform, coordinated,from Piauí-Brazil, by Ireno Júnior (PI) and Samuel Alvís (PI), both artists and researchers in Dance. The Dances We Have Made aims to dialogue and collaborate with people and places, having affection as a central motto to think about the critical production of a dance that asks questions through its artistic practices, as well as thinking about the dances that are to come - dances to invent, question, insist.

DANCES WE HAVE MADE arose from the pulsating desire for dance and its connections. It is a place/context to think about creation, production and training in dance, dialoguing with other artistic languages.This long name “dancasquemosfeito” arises from the possibility of thinking about continuity, a doing that is done, doing, in the meantime.Dances that relate to different bodies, places and contexts interest us deeply. We've been doing a lot of dancing and a lot of dialogue has been going on, and that's to keep it going.

Among the projects and/or dances linked to the DQTF: What Dance Have You Been Doing During Quarantine? (2020), Paragem-live (2020), LiveMaisDança (2020), Valentar (2021), Sabbath da Brixa (2022), Eitta James (2022), Guiança (2022), Sorria (2023), Turbulência Encontros de Danças (2023) ).

The repertoire of platform dance shows/performances was presented in several festivals/contexts in Brazil, such as:at thePiauí-BR (Junta - International Dance Festival; Occupy Rails; Scenic Balaio; Quinta Dança -Sesc), inMinas Gerais-BR(Acuenda Festival; Move Concreto), atBahia-BR (Itacaré Dance Festival; UFBA Congress).

Dqtf's latest project is o Turbulence Dance Encounters, an event that had its first edition in 2023, in Teresina-PI-BR, bringing together presentations by various artists, workshops and creative residencies in dance and their connections.

Directors

Ireno Junior

He is an artist of Dance and its connections, with experience in direction, curation, choreography, performance, production and dramaturgy. Currently, he is pursuing a doctorate in Dance at the Federal University of Bahia - UFBA, where he received a master's degree and specialization in Dance. He is the director and curator of Turbulência Encontros de Danças.

Collaboratively coordinates the projects that emerged in Piauí: Danças Que Tem Feito and Congresso FORMA. He was a substitute teacher at the State University of Piauí. Currently, he is a teacher and coordinator of the professional qualification course aimed at choreographers at the Lenir Argento State School of Dance - EEDLA, in Teresina-PI/BRA.

He created shows that were danced at different festivals in Brazil, such as: Devorar (2023), Guiança (2022), Valentar (2021), Braços Pra Que Te Quero (2018), among others.

He has danced/performed in festivals/contexts: international dance festival junta, Panorama festival, Acuenda festival, Itacaré dance festival, cult dance festival, balaio scenic festival, moveconcreto festival, escena 1 danzasur festival, among others.

He has been researching “vulnerability as a way of doing dance”, as well as Queer studies in the act of dancing, and his creations problematize the hauntings in/of the body, a subject he has been developing in his PhD in Dance.

Samuel Alvis

Bixa, Dance Artist from Piauí, drag queen for over 20 years. He believes in an authorial dance that dialogues between performance and shows. Currently a teacher and producer at Balé da Cidade de Teresina, one of the largest dance companies in Piauí, in which he also works as the creator of some shows, including: "Grave Grog", a show that has already toured the north and northeast with the Sesc Amazônia announcement. of the Arts and “Absolutes”.

Coordinates the production, creation and training platform in partnership with the artist Ireno Júnior entitled “Dança Que Tem Feito” creations, which have already given rise to the shows Eólico, Eólico unfolded, Braços pra que te quer, Valentar, Sabbath da Brixa and Guiança . Member of Sóhomens Cia de Dança, where he is a dancer and creator of the shows MVS, Coroai-me, Dianas, TRINDADE and Espelácato. Physical Education Professional and Specialist in Contemporary Dance Studies – UFBA. Contemporary dance teacher at the State School of Dance Lenir Argento since 2013 and former municipal dance councilor of Teresina.

In his career as a dancer and choreographer he has participated in several national and international dance festivals such as the JUNTA International Dance Festival and the PANORAMA Festival. He is currently focusing on experimentally producing dance videos for digital media and researching drag queen performativity as a poetics of the scene and is one of the directors/curators of Turbulência Encontros de Danças.