Lua Carreira, Lisbon, 1997, studied at the Dance School of the National Conservatory of Portugal.

In 2015 she continued her professional career as a dancer with the Ballet Junior de Genéve, in Switzerland, and in 2017 she joined the EgriBianco Danza company, in Italy. Since 2019, as a dancer, she has worked with choreographers such as Pedro Ramos, Filipa Peraltinha, Nélia Pinheiro, Benvindo Fonseca, Xana Novais and Marco da Silva Ferreira.

As a choreographer, Lua created “Lîla - Free Play” (2019), “A Morte do Artista” (2020), “My Heaven is Better than Yours” (2020) and in 2021 she premiered “Kind of Blue”, a piece that was nominated for the dance award at the 2022 National Exhibition of Young Creators, Portugal. She carried out the 2022 Performance Cycle, as a research between body and object, and in the same year premiered the pieces “Unmanned Space Probe” and “SAL”.

Her most recent performance works are "Sonic Vault" for the International Ballet Gala in Sintra and "Halo Blackness of the Heart" for the Contemporary Art Biennial Year Zero, Coimbra, a piece nominated for the disciplinary crossover award at the National Exhibition of Young Creators 2024.

Lua Carreira was co-founder of EmFim-Associação do Artista and since 2023 she has been a resident artist at ZABRA - Post-Human Art Research Center.

Currently her creative work focuses on a transdisciplinary approach to deconstruct the performative body through the exploration of technology and the research of body entities combined with sound, audiovisual and installation processes.