DĀRTA CERIŅA

Critic, Journalist & Head of Artistic Department,
Dailes Theatre, Latvian Academy of Culture

Dārta Ceriņa thinks critically about culture for a living. As a film and theatre critic, researcher, journalist, and the person responsible for the artistic direction of Dailes Theatre, she also lectures at the Latvian Academy of Culture and curates programmes for the Riga International Film Festival. That breadth is not incidental: her work consistently moves between making, evaluating and contextualising - asking what culture does, not just what it produces. At PULSE, she brings an outside perspective into a room of practitioners - the kind of critical lens that tends to sharpen the inspirational talks.