Catharina Gadelha is a dancer and choreographer. After training as a classical dancer in Brazil, she studied elementary dance and play, music and dance/movement theatre at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in Cologne. She completed her studies in dance pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. Among others, she works for the internationally renowned AGORA Theatre in Belgium and choreographs for the Kinder- und Jugendtheater Dortmund of the Dortmund State Theatre. Since 2003, Catharina has been conducting advanced training for dance and theatre professionals. Among other things, she has developed concepts for dance courses at the Rheinische Musikschule Köln and for dance and movement courses at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in Cologne. In 2012, her book Kreatives Tanzen mit Schulkinder: Ein Leitfaden für Lehrer und Tanzpädagogen was published. Since June 2021, she has been the artistic director of the AGORA Theatre, The Theatre of the German-speaking Community in Belgium, together with Ania Michaelis.