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Carminda Soares is a Portuguese artist working between dance, performance, and text. Her practice is driven by a search for new choreographic and textual devices, exploring states of intimacy, resistance and aggression.

As a choreographer, she has presented:

“Bright Horses” (2025, created with Maria R Soares), a dance piece for six performers – three sets of twins – drawing on family dynamics to critically reflect on competition in contemporary society; “Simulacro” (2022, created with Margarida Montenÿ), a performance exploring the slow unfolding of intimacy between two queer bodies; “Light On Light” (2022), a performance inviting participants into a collective run across the city, activating streets and public sites through shared rhythm; and “It’s a Long Yesterday” (2021, created with Maria R Soares), a dance piece exploring twinhood as a research tool to reflect on the potential of an imprecise and multiple body.

Alongside her own creations, she has collaborated with national and international artists and companies, including Catarina Miranda, Lisa Freeman, Ao Cabo Teatro, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Victor Hugo Pontes, and Gonçalo Lamas. Across both her independent and collaborative work, she continues to seek new creative structures for thinking how bodies exist together, hold memory, and negotiate conflict.

Choreographing • Writting• Collaborating

Porto, Portugal