Women in the arts
- Conference
- Part of the SHE MOVES cultural project
- Free admission with registration
2 hr
Info
How do women transform the artistic disciplines in which they work when their perspectives, voices, and experiences find their rightful and well-deserved place in the artistic sphere?
The “Women in the Arts” conference serves as a discursive companion to the performance *Maybe by 2301*, we won’t need another feminist show and brings together four artists and performers from different fields in a dialogue about forms of solidarity and artistic practices, about individual experiences that can become transferable perspectives, about new ways of working, and, ultimately, about changes in the artistic structures and ecosystems in which women operate.
“Women in the Arts” is, thus, a conversation about presences and voices and about what becomes possible when the spaces women occupy no longer need to be constantly claimed, but can simply be inhabited.
Moderator: Andreea Novac
Guests: Renate Dinu, Irina Marinescu, Alina Pietrăreanu
Registration
Registration for the conference is free, subject to availability, by filling out the form available HERE.
Biographies
Andreea Novac is an independent artist, choreographer, and performer. She studied psychology at the University of Bucharest and then choreography at the “I.L. Caragiale” University of Theater and Film Arts. She is passionate about choreographic creation, arts education, and theoretical and performative discourse. She creates dance and performance pieces, choreographs for theater and film, works across disciplines, and leads contemporary dance workshops.
Renate Dinu is a multidisciplinary live artist, DJ, and cultural worker whose practice moves across performance, music, spoken word, and critical inquiry. A former pro athlete with a background in economics and performing arts, she approaches the body, voice, and stage as sites of fruitful friction and collective encounter. Based in Bucharest, she collaborates with contemporary art institutions and independent cultural organisations, developing a practice shaped by ongoing processes of formation and transformation.
Irina Marinescu is a choreographer and performer, a dance and movement therapist, and a comedian. She has training in contemporary dance and the performing arts (Feldenkrais, Viewpoints, Axis Syllabus, the Das Theater Feedback method, contact improvisation, and Gaga). Through dance and movement therapy (DMT), she channels her experience in contemporary dance to offer connection, healing, and comfort using proven and recognized methods from various movement and therapy systems and techniques (Laban-Bartenieff, somatic movement, psychotherapy methods, Kestenberg, Authentic Movement) . In 2019, she began doing stand-up comedy because she wanted to stop taking herself so seriously and because she didn’t feel represented by the stories she heard on stage.
Alina Pietrăreanu is a theater director and writer. She is interested in hybrid, experimental, and social art. Among her most recent projects are: THE THEATER OF THE FUTURE (Point Theater, Bucharest, selected for Theatre Networking Talents 2026), Everything Is Happening Now (Reactor de creație și experiment, Cluj 2025), Papiloma Party (Teatrul Dramaturgilor Români, Bucharest, Best Director Award at the Undercloud 2025 festival), and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Casa Kerim, Bucharest, 2024). She made her literary debut with the novel Living Under Constant Pressure (Paralela 45, 2022). In the audio realm, she is the co-writer and director of the series Orbis (UNITER 2023 nominee). She is the president of H.O.T. Collective and served as the artistic director of the Ecosistem International Performing Arts Festival for three years.
The SHE MOVES cultural project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.