Luciana de Fátima Rocha Pereira de Lyra

Actress, director, playwright, writer and teacher in the Performing Arts area. Permanent professor of the Postgraduate Program in Arts (PPGArtes), at the Institute of Arts, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IART/UERJ). Associate Professor at the Department of Teaching Art and Popular Culture at the same university. Procientist (Productivity Fellow) at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Permanent professor and Post-doctorate by the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN - PNPD/CAPES Scholarship). Collaborating professor of the Postgraduate Program in Theater at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). Postdoctoral in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP - FAPESP Scholarship), she is also Master and Doctor in Performing Arts at the State University of Campinas (IA/UNICAMP-SP), FAPESP Scholarship holder. She has a lato sensu postgraduate degree (Specialization) in Dramaturgy: Cinema, Theater and Television at ESACH and a lato sensu postgraduate degree (Specialization) in Teaching the History of Arts and Religions at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). Graduated in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP-PE) and graduated in the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education from Feldenkrais International Training. She is the editor of scientific magazine Art of the Scene (UFG) and 'ad hoc' evaluator of Urdimento - Journal of studies in performing arts (UDESC), member of the research groups: 'Anthropology, Performance amd Drama' (NAPEDRA-USP) and 'Imagem , myth and imaginary in the performing arts' (ÍMAN-UFG). She is a researcher-leader of the research and extension group entitled 'MOTIM - Myth, Rite and Feminist Cartographies in the Arts' (UERJ/CNPq) and is co-creator of ENCONTROS ARCANOS, an annual academic-artistic event dedicated to the study of the imaginary and its interfaces with the performing arts, anthropology and depth psychology. She is co-coordinator of GT Scene women and GT Myth, image and scene, at Brazilian Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Performing Arts (ABRACE). She works at the theater company OS FOFOS ENCENAM, from Theater Ccooperative, in São Paulo and coordinates her own research studio UNALUNA-PESQUISA E CRIAÇÃO EM ARTE. With an emphasis on creative processes, she works mainly in the following areas: acting, theater, dance, performance, staging and dramaturgy. In the theoretical area, her investigation is directed towards studies of the Anthropologies of the Imaginary and Performance and feminist studies, always in dialogue with artistic creation, especially in the field of performing arts. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)