Luísa Saraiva is a choreographer and performer born in Porto, Portugal and living between Porto and Berlin. She studied psychology at the University of Porto and dance at the Folkwang Arts University in Essen. Her choreographic work explores the language of the body and voice and lies at the intersection of movement and musical composition. She was selected for the danceWeb scholarship in 2019 and in the season of 2019/2020 she was one of the choreographers-in-residence at the K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. In 2022/2023 she was a recipient of the Tanzpraxis Scholarship from the City of Berlin. In recent years, she has been teaching workshops and holding panels on mental health awareness for the dance community.