Carolina Rocha was born in the Azores, on the island of São Miguel, in 1986. In 1990 she began her dance studies with Milagres Paz, where she had contact with classical and modern dance technique. She then enrolled in Escola Superior de Dança, to continue her studies in Lisbon, and completed her degree in contemporary dance in 2010. During this period Carolina spend one term in Vienna Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität. After graduating Carolina took part in two choreographic projects – a piece with Fundação Liga Croqui, Corpo, Peça Pronta, a community project for disabled people; and 40 Graus à Sombra a site-specific piece inserted in TERRA²'s program - both pieces premiered in 2011. She joined the specialization course Modem Studio Atelier with Compagnia Zappalà Danza in Sicily for 8 months, finishing it in 2012. In 2011, she co-founded the collective 37.25 Núcleo de Artes Performativas in Ponta Delgada, with 8 other azorean performers in which she participated in several new commissions: Resvés - co-creation 37.25, 2012; A Ilha - by Victor Hugo Pontes and Marco Ferreira, Walk & Talk, 2013; Espectro - by Luis Guerra, Walk & Talk, 2015; Em Rede - cocreation 37.25, 2015; Lago dos Cisnes - Quorum Ballet, 2016; Dia D - Improvisation 37.25, 2016. She took part in the multidisciplinary artistic residency Compota coordinated by Paula Pinto in Lisbon at the Auditorium Carlos Paredes, in 2012. In 2013 Carolina created the piece Orgulho sem Preconceito premiered at the Teatro Micaelense, in collaboration with Maria João Gouveia. During the same year she collaborated regularly with the Associação A Pontilha through workshops, performances, and was commissioned to create their theatre piece SOMNIUM. Carolina took part in the laboratory DRIFTING / EM DERIVA from Gustavo Ciriaco and António Pedro Lopes with the intervention/circuit Badaladas inserted in Walk&Talk program 2013. In the same year Carolina attended the first module of the course PEPCC, Fórum Dança, in Lisbon. In 2015 she created her first dance film Degrau em grau directed by Hugo França. Carolina has been a contemporary and creative dance teacher in schools across Lisbon and the Azores since 2012. At the moment she lives in São Miguel where she works as a dance teacher for children and adults and continues to develop her own projects as well with 37.25 Núcleo de Artes Performativas.