Dóra Juhász

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CEU, Cultural Heritage Studies Program
visiting faculty

Compagnie Pal Frenak
general manager

Dóra Juhász has been working in the international contemporary art scene as a cultural manager, dance and theatre theorist for almost a decade. After her university studies – specialized in Hungarian Literature, Aesthetics, Cultural Management and Dance Theory at Eötvös Loránd University, and Hungarian Dance Academy - she started her professional carrier as a dance and theatre critic. Between 2006-2012 she published more than 60 articles, reviews, essays and theoretical texts about dance and theatre performances in Hungarian and in English. She is the co-author and editor of the bilingual book on audience development strategies and methods in the contemporary performing art scene, entitled KORTÁRS. BEAVATÁS. - Engaging the young audience, published in 2013. From 2006 to 2012, she worked for the most important contemporary art institution in Hungary, the internationally renowned Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest. First she was responsible for the audience engagement department and in the last 3 years, she was the head of press and communication of the institution. Since July 2013 she has been working as the general manager of the Paris-Budapest based, French-Hungarian contemporary dance company Compagnie Pal Frenak.  As the artistic manager of the company, she is responsible for the long-term strategy, the
branding, the international networking, the tour management, the concept of audience development projects, the sponsoring and the fundraising as well. She regularly gives lectures and invited to take part in conferences, juries in Hungary and abroad. She is invited to teach cultural management and cultural communication and marketing as a guest lecturer in MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest), Pázmány Péter University and WERK Academy, and Central European University. In 2013-2015 she was an awarded fellow of DeVos Institute's Art Management Fellowship Program for Art Leaders, of the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts and Maryland
University, Washington, USA, in 2015 she was selected to be an ISPA International Fellow at the International Society for the Performing Arts Congress in New York, USA.