Tarina Quelho (Psy.M.) is  performing artist, theater director and somatic educator, practitioner and teacher of Body-Mind Centering®. She has taught for over ten years at the University of São Paulo. She directs and creates the dramaturgy for her works, including “Isto é um negro?”, which has been presented at various festivals in and outside Brazil (FIT, MIT, MEXE/Portugal, Proximamente/Belgium, Theaterformen/Germany and Fringe/Scotland, among others). Tarina continues to be involved, always from a somatic perspective, in blurring the boundaries between theory and artistic creation, as well as fiction and reality, and in relationships of co-authorship. For some years now, she has been trying to understand somatic education in its political power as a counter-colonial practice. She currently co-directs the Brazilian and Uruguayan BMC® programs.

Diego Pizarro (PhD) is a Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®️, as well as a certified practitioner of Articulation and Muscle Chains G.D.S. method, and Certified instructor of GYROKINESIS®️ and GYROTONIC®️. He is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator by ISMETA, and administrative director of the BMC®️ Brazilian Program. As a Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Brasília (IFB) since 2010, he directs the research group CEDA-SI - Collective of Studies in Dance, Somatics and Improvisation. He carried out a post-doctoral research (2022-2023) on Somatics of Voice at the University of Brasília, CAPES/BRAZIL fellow. He is also a Permanent Professor at the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia (PPGAC/UFBA), since 2022. His vast experience in the field of Performing Arts encompasses an emphasis on performance, choreography, dance techniques, theater performance and Somatic Education.