MECHITA • Sol Garcia

Sol Garcia is a performer, choreographer and teacher, born in Lisbon but living in the city of Porto since 2011. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in movement research, physical dramaturgy, and the exploration of interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary dance. With a focus on somatic awareness and emotional depth, her work navigates the intersections between body, memory and space.
She holds a degree in Dance from the Escola Superior de Dança. She began her dance studies through Urban Dance. She was a member of the group Dance2xs Portugal in 2005, where she worked with choreographers such as Patrick Chen (Chicago), Sky Hoffman (L.A.), and Napoleon and Tabitha (L.A.).
That same year, she performed as a dancer at the MTV European Music Awards. In 2006, she won the Nike Women Portugal competition and was selected to represent Portugal in the semifinal in Amsterdam. She was a guest performer in the projects Feinprobe Honigsüss – The Oversweet Experience and The Movement of Our Roots, in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, in 2008/2009 and 2010.
Since 2009, she has worked as a performer, taking part in creations by Benvindo Fonseca, Victor Hugo Pontes (2011 to 2022) — a long-standing relationship that became an essential space for research and the honing of her artistic eye, a place of listening, rigour and shared construction, where the body is understood as narrative and poetic matter — as well as Tiago Rodrigues, Hofesh Shechter, Olga Roriz, Companhia Erva Daninha, Nuno Preto, Albano Jerónimo, Joana Providência, Companhia Instável, Clara Andermatt, João Lucas and Roberto Olivan.
As a creator, notable small-scale projects include Vanilla?… Not! (2013), Femme Fatale (2014), Porque é que o céu é azul? (Why is the sky blue?, 2016), Morro Amanhã (I’ll Die Tomorrow, 2016), Fille Dans le Vent (2017) and Paisagem (Landscape, 2017).
Since 2014, she has taught at FAICC (Advanced Training in Choreographic Performance and Creation), produced by Companhia Instável.
From 2015 to 2019, she directed the Companhia Jovem Dancenter, in Aveiro. She was the winner of the 2nd season of the television programme So You Think You Can Dance? (Portugal). In 2018, she completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro. She has also collaborated as movement assistant on “Nós quem somos?” (“Who Are We?”), by Associação Onda Amarela, and “LULU”, by Nuno M Cardoso, and on the “8th Anniversary of Casa da Arquitectura – Kengo Kuma”, by Ana Figueira. In 2024, she joined the cast of the film A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor (The Stone Dreams of Giving Flower), by Rodrigo Areias, and the European contemporary dance research collective iCoDaCo – International Contemporary Dance Collective.