Cristiana Menezes, born 15th August 1963, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a ballet dancer and a ballet master.

She had her first contact with Sacred Circle Dance in 1991 and has worked as a focalizer since 1995.

She has studied with Maria-Gabriele Wosien, Anna Barton, Laura Shannon, Peter Vallance, Mandy de Winter, Friedel Kloke, Ray Price, Marianne Inselmine, David Edery, Barbara Swetina, Joyce Dijkstra, among others. She attended the Sacred Dance Festival at the Findhorn Community in 1996 and 1999.

Cristiana has created a repertory of over 200 circle dances, most of them with Brazilian music, and is often invited to teach them in many Brazilian cities. Her dances have been widely danced in Brazilian circles and many of them have been taught abroad by international teachers such as Laura Shannon, Mandy de Winter and Fleur Barragan, as well as by Brazilian teachers in Holland, Portugal, Argentina, Italy, Chile, Austria, Belgium, England and at the Findhorn Community in Scotland.

There is a list of her dances at the link "Repertório de Danças" in the main menu. There are also some video clips in the link "Videos".

Cristiana Menezes speaks fluent English and is available for workshops abroad.