Aikaterini (Katia) Arfara holds a PhD in Art History from the Paris I – Panthéon/Sorbonne University and presently works as the Theatre and Dance Curator of the Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece. Dr Arfara has a BA in Classical Studies (Athens University) and a BA and a MA in Theatre Studies (Athens University).  Her current research interests include socially engaged art, public works and post-documentary performance. As the Theatre and Dance Artistic Director of the Onassis Stegi in Athens from 2013 to 2018, she initiated and curated numerous interdisciplinary events and international festivals such as the Fast Forward that commissions site-specific projects at the intersection of art, science and civic practice. She has lectured extensively in France and Greece. Dr Arfara is a Fulbright fellow, a DAAD and Clemens Heller scholar and a member of CIMAM and of the Intermediality working group of the IFTR. Her essays at the crossroads of theatre, dance, performance and contemporary art have appeared in french, english, spanish, arabic and greek in various journals and critical anthologies such as Being-With in Contemporary Performance Art (2018) and  L'Objet technologique en scène (2019, in press). Dr Arfara is the author of the book Théâtralités contemporaines (2011), the editor of the special issue ‘Scènes en transition-Balkans et Grèce’ for Théâtre/Public (2016) and the co-editor of Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere (2018).