Lua Carreira (Lisbon, 1997) is a choreographer, performer, and researcher. Her practice operates at the intersection of choreographic creation, artistic research, technology, performative ecologies, and cultural management, exploring new forms of relationship between the body, the environment, and non-human systems.

She trained at the National Conservatory Dance School in Portugal and began her international career as a dancer with Ballet Junior de Genève (Switzerland), later continuing with the EgriBianco Danza company (Italy). Since 2019, she has regularly collaborated with choreographers, directors, and visual artists across dance, theater, and film, working with creators such as Pedro Ramos, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Marco Martins, Filipa Peraltinha, Benvindo Fonseca, Xana Novais, and Nélia Pinheiro. Alongside this, she works as a choreographic assistant and movement coordinator for theater and film productions.

As a creator, she develops a transdisciplinary practice integrating choreography, performance, installation, sound, and technological devices. Notable works include Kind of Blue (2021), nominated for the 2022 National Young Creators Showcase; Halo Blackness of the Heart (2023), presented at the Ano Zero Biennial and nominated for the Cross-Disciplinary Award at the 2024 National Young Creators Showcase; and BLACK SUN (2025), a performance utilizing motion sensors to generate interactive light and sound systems in real time. In 2026, she is developing Wave State Machine, a project marking a new phase in her artistic research focused on the aquatic experience as a choreographic methodology.

The research underpinning her practice stems from the relationship between body, ocean, and technology, proposing choreographic processes inspired by marine ecologies, distributed intelligence, and post-human thought. Through diving, surfing, and practice-based artistic research, she explores modes of perception and movement organization that challenge an anthropocentric understanding of the body, bringing choreography closer to living systems, underwater environments, and hybrid entities.

Alongside her artistic creation, she has built a solid track record in artistic production, cultural management, and institutional development. She co-founded EmFim – Artists' Association and is part of the founding team of ZABRA – Center for Post-Human Art Research; there, she served as an artist-in-residence and later in executive production, coordinating cultural projects, multidisciplinary teams, funding strategies, and physical space management. She is also active in electronic music curation and the development of independent models for contemporary creation.

A grant recipient from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, DGArtes, and Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas, her work lies at the intersection of artistic research, choreographic creation, and the development of cultural structures; she seeks to cultivate practices that bring together art, science, philosophy, and ecology in a reflection on the futures of the body and forms of coexistence between the human and the non-human.