Romana Agnel choreography, artistic director

Romana Agnel is the founder and executive and artistic director of the Cracovia Danza Ballet and is also an active dancer, choreographer, dance coach and art historian. She is a graduate of the Ballet School in Cracow and studied the history of art at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is also dedicated to Bharatanatyam Indian classical dance, which she studied in Madras (Chennai) under the guidance of the legendary guru Shrimati M. K. Saroja.

She has created choreographies for numerous operas and ballets, staged in Poland and abroad, as well as choreographies for over 20 performances of the Cracovia Danza Ballet. Romana Agnel works with renowned personalities from many different fields. She is a lecturer and a published author on the subject of dance history and has received a great number of awards, among them the Legion of Honour, the highest order of merit awarded by the French government, and the Order of Polonia Restituta.