She also served as head of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas Department of Dance Theater from 1984 until 1994.
Adriana Barenstein was educated at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where she studied philosophy.
[1] After working at the National School of Dance as a teacher (1979-1985), she returned to UBA, where she formed the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas Department of Dance Theater and was head of the former from 1984 until 1994,[2][1] an era she recalled "was very important for her [and] a dizzying moment".
[3] At the Centro Cultural Borgesa, she conceived their Living Arts Area, and she has also directed their workshops and dance school.
[2][1][3] Many of her works – particularly the Edward Hopper-inspired Disculpen este prolongado silencio con música (1992), El Amor (2005), and Cuerpo y Ciudad (2010) – focused on human-physical environment interactions.