Adriana Bârză-Cârstea

Meetings and Classes with Great Choreographers” Event Moderator and Coordinator

Adriana Bârză-Cârstea is associate professor PhD at the Department of Drama and Theatre studies, Faculty of Letters and Arts, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu. She is a member of the Center for Advanced Research in Performing Arts and Cultural Management (CAVAS), as well as a choreographer and artistic advisor for the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (SITF) for the Dance section. Since 2010, she has been in charge of coordinating the Workshops Section within the SITF. She has also coordinated and moderated the Meetings and Classes with Great Choreographers session, part of the Sibiu International Performing Arts Market, since 2015. Her professional activity includes leading movement and dance workshops, leading student projects, and teaching national and international dance, movement and theatre studies classes. She has also created the choreography for many national and international theatre and dance-theatre productions. Her research and artistic interests focus on the theoretical and practical development of body expression training for actors and dancers and on exploring the interdisciplinary “bridge” between theatre and dance.