Biography

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.

Artistic project

“Meteoros” is built on collectiveness: a choreographic research project shaped by FLINTA and dissident bodies moving, sounding and assembling together. It investigates how bodies can organize and act as a living conduit for collective memory and resistance. Rather than representing history, the ensemble activates it: through movement and rhythm, the group becomes a temporary archive of protest, survival strategies, and political action.
“Meteoros” examines how bodies encounter one another and generate community through shared action, moving together, breathing together, sounding together.
Percussion, currently bass drums and snare drums, drives the work as a tool of collective manifestation. FLINTA bodies, meaning women, lesbian, trans, non-binary, and agender people, march, advance, and move as a group, each sonic gesture functioning simultaneously as choreographic structure and political device.
Through collective rhythm, “Meteoros” operates as a political statement: a form of protest, insurgency, resistance and survival. At the same time, it rethinks performance as a public gesture that occupies and unsettles spaces, including streets, squares, cultural and civic institutions, transforming them into temporary territories of collective presence, friction, and visibility. Space is not neutral: it is claimed, crossed, and reconfigured through sound and movement.

Format: Performance

Size of audience: Open audience, adaptable to 100 - 300 people depending on the site.

Specific location: Public and non-conventional spaces, including streets, squares, and cultural or civic institutions.

Timing/duration: 40 minutes