Coin Operated

Jonas Lopes was born to Lisbon in 1986, while Lander Patrick was born to Rio de Janeiro in 1989. In 2010 they met at the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon during their academic training, beginning their first collaborations in dance. The work of creators Jonas & Lander is recognizable in the Portuguese dance scene as a 'opera with a strong signature of authorship, with unique contours that explores the fusion of different performing arts, with particular attention to music. This characteristic is investigated in Cascas d'OvO (2013), their first creation, where the rhythmic sense is strongly used as a common thread throughout the entire piece. from then Jonas & Lander have established themselves with critically acclaimed pieces and supported from Portuguese and European realities to support of art and creativity. In their career, they already have to their credit a wide range of works such as Matilda Carlota (2014), Arrastão (2015), Adorabilis (2017), Lento e Largo (2019), Coin Operated (2019) and Bate Fado (2021) and projects with local realities such as the piece Playback for the Materiais Diversos Festival (2013) or Caruma (2014) for Estufa Plataforma Cultural. Two of their works are nominated from Aerowaves Priority Company, win second prize at the No Ballet International Choreography Competition (AL); Lento e Largo is cited by Público and Expresso newspapers as one of the ten best shows of 2019, also getting nominated for Best Choreography by Sociedade Portuguesa Autores; Bate Fado stands out for a long tour in Portugal and other countries in 2021 and 2022, as well as being voted Best Show of 2021 by Expresso newspaper. They participate in RTP2's documentary series Portugal que Dança (2017), with an episode to dedicated to them, and are in the cinema with the film Body Buildings (2020).

As soloists, Lander saw his first solo, Noodles never break when boiled get the first prize at the Koreografskih Minijatura Festival (SRV) in 2011, signed the duet OHM (2016) for the company Staatstheater Mainz (AL) and collaborated with other creators such as Tomaz Simatovic, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Luis Guerra, among others.

Jonas began his artistic training in 2002 in the Chapitô art school. from then worked with several directors and choreographers such as Tiago Guedes, Clara Andermatt, Jérôme Bel, Vera Mantero, Maria João and Mário Laginha, Filipe La Féria, António Pires, Adriano Luz, Madalena Victorino, among others. In 2006 he began his career as a fado singer to London and in 2011 he edited his first album Fado Mutante awarded with the Carlos Paredes prize in 2012. In 2021 he released his first album as a songwriter, São Jorge, edited from Valentim de Carvalho and produced from Jorge Fernando.

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