Barbara Lehtna (www.barbaralehtna.com) is a theatre maker and performer from Estonia, currently based in Riga, Latvia. Her artistic processes have been primarily focused on exploring self-representation and expression of queer and female bodies within the liminal post-Soviet spaces. Barbara's works are built upon an cross-disciplinary approach to working within different performance practices such as theatre, opera, and dance. Her processes are often inquiring into personal archives, everydayness, and humor.

Research practice

Barbara's artistic research is concentrating on the potential of finding diverse strategies to shift how we convey and construct female and queer narratives and furthermore how that could influence the self-reflection and expression of the audience. The artistic research practice includes cross-disciplinary work with various modes of writing, adapting methodologies from other genres of art, and experimenting with reconfigured structures of power relations.