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With more than 20 years dedicated to teaching dance, Liliana Vilas Boas has built a career defined by experience, rigour and a constant pursuit of excellence.

Director, teacher and choreographer at Flash Li Dance School, she works in the fields of Modern & Contemporary Jazz (IDTA), Acro Dance (Acrobatic Arts) and Urban Dance, and holds the artistic and pedagogical direction of the school.

Throughout her career she has created numerous award-winning choreographies at national and international level, alongside directing and producing a range of events and shows. She founded Flash Li Dance Crew, an Urban Dance group that gained national recognition by reaching the semi-finals of Got Talent Portugal in 2022 and 2024.

Her artistic training took her to London, and in particular to the renowned Pineapple Dance Studios and Studio 68, where she deepened her work alongside internationally recognised teachers and choreographers. As a dancer, she also took part in various events and television programmes — experiences that later helped shape her outlook as a teacher and choreographer.

A graduate in Physiotherapy from ESTSP, she combines her artistic experience with a deep knowledge of the body and of movement, bringing to her teaching an approach that is technical, aware and safe.

At the head of Flash Li Dance School, she holds to a clear vision: to train dancers with technique and identity, to raise their potential, and to make dance a path of growth, discipline and excellence.

She began dancing at the age of 3, building a solid foundation in Classical Ballet that culminated in 2018 with the completion of Advanced 2 of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD).

Her training includes qualifying as a teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance, where she gained the title of RAD Registered Teacher in 2024, as well as a degree in Dance from the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil. She is also a certified Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) teacher, and remains committed to continually updating and deepening her artistic and pedagogical training.

She holds a Master's in Dance from the Federal University of Bahia, where she carried out research into choreographic notation through the history of dance, adding an important academic and research dimension to her artistic path.

Teaching since 2007, she works with dancers of different ages and levels of training, combining technical rigour, pedagogical knowledge and an aware approach to each student's progress.

She is also the creator and producer of Dança em Adulto SUMMER INTENSIVE, a project held in Portugal and dedicated to the training and recognition of adult dancers.

With 14 years of experience teaching dance, she began her artistic training at the age of 10 in Classical Ballet – Vaganova method and Contemporary Dance.

She holds a degree in Dance from the Federal University of Paraíba, where she deepened her artistic and pedagogical training. During her studies she was selected for three years as a scholarship holder of the Institutional Programme for Teaching Initiation (PIBID), worked as a teaching assistant in Modern Dance – Lester Horton Technique, and was for two years a member of Cia. Contém Dança — Corpo e Tecnologia. She complemented her path with training in Jazz, Lyrical Jazz, Contemporary Dance and the Vaganova Method for Teachers.

Throughout her professional career she has combined teaching and choreographic creation with artistic direction, pedagogical coordination and mentoring, and has sat as a guest judge at prestigious dance events and competitions in Brazil, Portugal and Spain.

Her teaching approach brings together technical rigour, body awareness, creativity and artistic independence, developing dancers who are versatile, aware and have an identity of their own.

João Moutinho trained in Breaking at MXM Dance Studio, now Breaking Clube do Porto, a national reference in the discipline.

In 2019 he joined MXM's Breaking team for a training and competition experience in New York, deepening both his knowledge and his contact with Hip Hop culture. In 2021 he competed as a federated athlete in the first National Breaking Championship of the Portuguese Sport Dance Federation (FPDD), and in that same year began teaching.

He currently teaches at several schools in the north of Portugal, and has also worked as a trainer on projects such as Desporto no Bairro, run by Ágora Porto and Porto City Council.

In his teaching he combines technique, discipline and creativity, seeking to develop confidence, the ability to improvise and a sense of community — forming not only better dancers and athletes, but better people.

With a career dedicated to Afro-Latin dance since 2006, she trained in Salsa, Bachata and Lady Styling, deepening her technical, artistic and pedagogical skills over the years alongside different professionals in the field.

Since 2023 she has worked as a teacher of Afro-Latin dance and Lady Styling, combining teaching at a dance school with teaching Latin Dance in Curricular Enrichment Activities (AEC).

Her artistic path takes in training and performance projects such as Team RS de Salsa, Team Esencia and Team Esencia Lady Style, including experiences representing Portugal.

A path defined by continuous training, artistic experience and dedication to teaching, where technique, expression and identity meet through Afro-Latin dance.

Aldriana Vargas Lopez is a classical dancer and teacher who trained in Caracas and at Incolballet in Colombia. Throughout her career, she performed with renowned companies such as the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, Ballet Nice Méditerranée and Béjart Ballet Lausanne, where she distinguished herself as a soloist and principal dancer.

She holds the French State Diploma in Classical Dance Teaching from the Centre National de la Danse in Paris and has extensive artistic and teaching experience. She currently heads the Dance Department at ADAC – School of Creative Arts in Nyon, Switzerland.

Catarina Ribeiro is a dancer, dance artist and teacher. She began her training at Ginasiano and completed the Bachelor Dancer/Maker programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with a range of national and international organisations and artists, including Jan Martens, Cecilia Moisio, Felix Landerer, Gerben Vaillant and Preci Numbi. She also co-founded Lazy Susan & Co and has mentored choreographic work by secondary-school and university students.

Since 2023, she has been involved in organising the transdisciplinary projects Em.pressão and Malandra. In 2025, she completed the Performing Arts Management and Production course at Forum Dança. She currently combines her artistic practice with teaching dance in recreational and vocational settings.