Alina Bilokon
(Ukraine/Portugal)
Started artistic education in 1992 at the Choreographic Arts School "Sonechko" in Ukraine.
In 2005 moved to Portugal where continued training in dance through seminars and workshops.
In 2010 completed her BA in dance at Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon and started two years program
As a performer collaborated with
Ana Borralho & João Galante; Mariana Tengner Barros; Madalena Victorino; Miguel Pereira; Loïc Touzé; Boris Charmatz.
Léa Rault
(France)
Studied literature and language sciences in Rennes,
and realized radio documentaries in South and Central America
until 2005.
In 2006 worked as a coordinator for the Toronto International Dance Festival (TIDF) in Canada
Back in France, started to collaborate in different dance and music projects:
Le Dragon with musician Stéphane Kérihuel;
The Bird is Yellow with musician Jérémy Rouault;
and graduated from the Contemporary Dance Conservatory of Rennes in 2010.
The same year started PEPCC in Forum Dança.
Since 2012, runs several creations and courses for non-professional dancers.
In 2010 Alina and Léa met in Lisbon, during two years program PEPCC (Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Program), an intensive and advanced course in Contemporary Dance at Forum Dança, and worked with Lisa Nelson, K.J.Holmes, Jennifer Lacey, Loic Touzé, Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Meg Stuart, Mark Tompkins, Francisco Camacho, Cristina Rizzo, Miguel Pereira, Jeremy Nelson, Tiago Rodrigues and Patricia Portela, among others.
In 2012 Bilokon and Rault founded a structure in France, called PILOT FISHES, to support their cooperation and individual projects:
Untitled (2011) solo by Léa Rault; mannered (2012) solo by Alina Bilokon; as unidades minimas do sensivel (2013) trio by Alina Bilokon, Léa Rault and Urândia Aragão; Our Pop Song Will Never Be Popular (2014) duet by Alina Bilokon and Léa Rault; TYJ (2015) by Alina Bilokon & Léa Rault with Jérémy Rouault.
