EDUCATION:

1998 – The School for Contemporary Dance „Ana Maletić“, Zagreb (8 year study program)

1999-2004 – Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb (4 year study program / diploma)

2015 – one-year course at The Center for Women Studies

2016-2020 – MA CUP (Master in Choreography and Performance) at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Gießen

Thesis: “Imploded Goo: Thoughts on Montage-like Choreography”
Supervisors: prof. dr. Bojana Kunst, dr. Martina Ruhsam

2017 – Erasmus student at Master in Critical Studies, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria

2021 – ongoing – a PhD researcher at Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, England

2024 – Assistant Professor, Dance Department, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb

ARTISTIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2002 – present – dance artist, working with choreography, drawings and social sculptures

2000 – 2013 – one of the coordinators of Experimental Free Scene (Ekscena), an independent organisation established to promote contemporary dance and other forms of performing arts

2006 – 2020 – a member of BADco., a performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia 

2004 – present – (co)author in 11 different dance projects outside of BADco.

2020 – a six months fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Tanzpakt)

THEATRE AND DANCE PERFORMANCES:

2023 – dancer in Es Un No Parar, choreography by Darìo Barreto Damas, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Espacio La Granja, Tenerife, Kondenz festival Belgrade, EAREYE festival Malmö

2022 – choreographer in Dolls and Goats, Gallery Močvara, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb

2022 – choreographer in On Pink-tinted Future, a dance performance with Ana Kreitmeyer, Zagreb

2021 – co-curator in Reihe zur zeitgenössischen Vortragskunst | Um(j)etnost predavanja | The art of the lecture with Helen Brecht, Nina Gojić, Jascha Sommer, Cologne

2021 – a choreographer in Mi smo kompost, WHW, Gallery Nova, Zagreb

2021 – a maker of a gamified performance Kitchen-ing Questions with Ida Daniel and Todor Stoyanov, TakeAction, Fonds DAKU

2021 – dance video Natur/&$!#@1!/Romantik with Rahel Barra, Nah Dran residency, ada Studios, Berlin

2020 – choreography without a performer/installation, Such a Cute Crash, Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

2019 – dancer in Improvised Events, with Andreja Kulunčić, Jasna Jovićević and Anette Giesriegl, MSU Zagreb

2019 – choreographer, performer in Impossible Dances, BADco.

2019 – choreographer, performer in Exploded Goo, a final work at MA CuP, Frankfurt/Giessen

2019 – Ida Daniel in collaboration with Todor Stoyanov, Zrinka Uzbinec and Katarzyna Kania in I will not stay here long

2019 – Katarzyna Kania together with collaborators: Ida Daniel, Piotr Stanek, Todor Stoyanov, Zrinka Užbinec in Scores for Yearning

2018 – dancer in Woman with Stones, the performance by Caroline Creutzburg

2017 – choreographer and dancer in Still To Come, a feminist pornscape with Rahel Barra, Ida Daniel, Ana Dubljević and Frida Laux

2016 – choreographer and dancer in The Tracking Dog with Mila Pavićević

2016 – choreographer and dancer in In the Eyes with Roberta Milevoj and Matija Ferlin

2016 – choreographer and dancer in ART-ACT-BOX, performative exhibition, work done with the artist Andreja Kulunčić

2015 – choreographer and dancer in The Eyes Melted, BADco.

2015 – choreographer in There, where they meet with Mila Pavićević

2015 – choreographer and dancer in The Monster with Mila Pavićević

2015 – concept and author The (In)authentic Performance in St. Markos’s Square – Urbanfestival 13, BLOK

2015 – dancer in The Drawer, BADco.

2014 – choreographer and dancer in A Lesser Evil, BADco.

2014 – dancer and co-author in Indigo with Sonja Pregrad and Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović

2013 – choreographer and dancer in A Pound of Hysteria, Acceleration… BADco.

2013 – performer in Nature Needs to be Constructed, artistic-ecological camping, BADco., with guest artists: Slaven Tolj, Davor Sanvičenti, Ana Hušman, Alen and Nenad Sinkauz & others

2013 – dancer and co-author in Pokret Mislim Okret with Sonja Pregrad and Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović

2013 – dancer in Fleshdance, BADco.

2012 – dancer in Is There Life On Stage, exercises in Terraforming, BADco.

2012 – dancer in Meteo, author : Irma Omerzo

2011 – dancer in Black and Forth, BADco.

2011 – dancer and choreographer in Jams with Ana Kreitmeyer and Sandra Banić Naumovski

2011 – dancer in Technique, author : Irma Omerzo

2010 – choreographer and dancer in Point of Convergence, BADco.

2010 – dancer in Onformance, author: Matija Ferlin

2009 – choreographer and dancer in The League of Time, BADco., Black/North SEAS platform

2009 – dancer in Deleted Messages, BADco. SEAS platform

2008 – dancer in 1 poor & one 0, BADco., Steirischer Herbst

2007 – dancer in Changes, BADco.

2007 – dancer in Gravidation, BADco.

2006 – dancer in Memories Are Made of This…performance notes, BADco.

2000 – 2006 – dancer in many artistic work done through Experimental Free Scene (Ekscena)

ARTISTIC WORK PRESENTED IN:

Zagreb (Teatar &td, Croatian National Theatre, ZKM, Zagreb Dance Centre, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Atelier Žitnjak, Cultural Center Remetinec, POGON Jedinstvo), Stuttgart (Theatre Rampe), Sofia (The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate “Andrey Nikolov”), Frankfurt (Mousonturm), Venice (54th Venice Biennale), Berlin (Podewill, Sophiensalle / Tanz im August, Volksbühne), Bergen (BIT, Oktoberdans), Vienna (Tanzquartier Wien, GarageX), Stockholm (Orionteatern, Theater Guillotine, MDT), Graz (Steirischer Herbst), Madrid (In-presentable), London (Chelsea Theater), Bilbao (Alhondiga), Ljubljana (Cankarjev dom/Exodos, Aksioma, Stara Elektrarna / Maska), Novi Sad (Infant, Balkan Dance Platform, PerArt / Serbian National Theatre), Belgrade (Kondenz Festival, BITEF teatar / TkH), Athens (BYCEM), Tallin (Kanuti Gildi Saal), Istanbul, Prague (Teater PONEC), Tromso (Radstua Theatre), Exeter, Bath, Lincoln (LPAC), Roubaix (Les Reperages), Copenhagen (Metropolis Biennalen, Dansehallerne), Gothenburg (SKOGEN), Skegness, Ghent (CAMPO nieuwpoort), Akçakoca, Ünye, Çamlıhemşin, Hopa, Batumi (SEAS), Kortrijk (BUDA)
Dubrovnik (Art Workshop Lazareti), Rijeka (Male scene, Drugo More, Rijeka Summer Nights), Zadar (Zadar snova)
Varaždin (Days of Contemporary Dance), Malmö, Tenerife

EXHIBITIONS:

2020 – Such a Cute Crash, Čvorište efemernog, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb

2020 – Such a Cute Crash, Improspekcije, MSU, Zagreb

2019 – Improvisational Structures, performative exhibition, MSU Zagreb

2016 – 2019 – ART-ACT-BOX, performative exhibition

2016 – BADco. video installation Stasis, Gallery Nova

2016 – performer in Sanja Iveković’s performance Repetitio est Mater

2015 – Do It Yourself, Artomat, HDLU Zagreb

2014 – participation with BADco. in El Contrato, Alhóndiga Bilbao

2014 Bad. solo exhibition: Broken Performances – Fleshdance, Multimedia Cultural Center Split

2014 – BADco. solo exhibition: Broken Performances – Fleshdance, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

2014 – BADco. solo exhibition: Broken Performances – Fleshdance, Gallery of Old and New Masters, Varaždin

2013 – BADco. solo exhibition: Broken Performances – Fleshdance, Galerija Nova, Zagreb

2013 – BADco. solo exhibition: Responsibility for Things Seen: Tales in Negative Space, Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana, curator Janez Janša

2013 – BADco.: performative installation TVolution won’t be televised – Broken performances at Skogen, Göteborg, April

2013 – dancer in dance video Grey, author: Irma Omerzo

2013 – dancer in dance video Dance with…, author: Irma Omerzo

2012 – participation with BADco. in From Below, as a Neighbour, Galerija Kortil, Rijeka, curator Fatima Hellberg (Electra)

2012 – participation with BADco. in Reality, Kunsterforbundet, Oslo, curated by Helga- Marie Nordby & Nicolas Siepen

2012 – participation with BADco. in Real Time Settings for Ner[d/v]es u ŠKUC Ljubljana

2012 – One Needs to Live Self-Confidently… Watching, presents Antonio G. Lauer a.k.a. Tomislav Gotovac and BADco., Gallery Nova, Zagreb, curated by WHW

2011 – La Biennale di Venezia – 54th International Art Exhibition – Croatian Pavilion, One Needs to Live Self-Confidently… Watching, presents Antonio G. Lauer a.k.a. Tomislav Gotovac and BADco., Gallery Nova, curated by WHW, nominated for UniCredit Venice Award

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS:

2023 – funded research project – Koreografija kože, The Ministry of Culture, Croatia

2023 – residency at Flutgraben Performances Residency together with Kasia Kania, Berlin

2022 – funded research project SKINS – Where do we go when the glass shatters, Fonds DAKU #Takeheart

2021 – funded research project On Violence and Cuteness by way of montage-like choreography, DIS-TANZEN

2020 – co-organization of Imaginary school for the future of the (art) institutions, Imaginations ~ Institutions ~ Precarity together with peers from MA CuP

2011 – 2014 – ALVES – Algorithmic Live Video Editing System, researcher. The project is part of LABO21, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), Random Dance London), Troubleyn (Antwerp) and International Choreographic Arts Centre (Amsterdam) ; dramaturgical and technological development of documentation and representation tool. Project leaders: Tomislav Medak and Daniel Turing

2010 –2014 – Post Hoc Dramaturgy – reflections on poetics of presentation and circulation in performing arts

2010 – 10d1u in Museum Of Contemporary Art Zagreb, together with collective 6M1L

2006 – 2010 – Whatever Dance Toolbox – technological tool for movement analysis. Researcher as a member of BADco.The research was a part of LABO21 – European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb)

2005 – Korpozicije, a year-long project that focused of the analysis of authorial approaches of the youngest generation of Croatian choreographers (Silvia Marchig, Mila Čuljak, Sandra Banić, Ana Kreitmeyer, Zrinka Užbinec, Maja Marjančić).

2004 – research project “HWE” (Hardcore Workshop Exchange – dance in the Balkan/ Nordic region)

TEACHING:

2023 – a lecture at the Academy of Dramatic Arts / Dance department, Zagreb, Croatia, on Contemporary Dance Technique / From Dance Technique to the Dance that Choreographs

2023 – teaching at Mjesečnica, Zagreb

2021 – teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Arts / Dance department, Zagreb, Croatia, Repertory Classes and Contemporary Dance Techniques

2020 – teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Arts / Dance department, Zagreb, Croatia, Repertory Classes and Contemporary Dance Techniques

2019/20 – teaching at the JLU, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Gießen and HfMDK Frankfurt in collaboration with prof. Bojana Kunst

2019 – teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Arts / Dance department, Zagreb, Croatia, choreography assistant to Nikolina Pristaš

2018 – teaching at the JLU, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Gießen

2017 – teaching at the Faculty of Dance Theatre, Bytom, Poland

2017 – teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Arts / Dance department, Zagreb, Croatia

2016 – teaching at P.A.R.T.S. the school for contemporary dance, with BADco., as a part of P.A.R.T.S. Research Studios’ Cluster #2: Time and rhythm – conceived and guided by Bojana Cvejić and Tom Engels, Bruxelles (BE)

2015 – Whatever Dance Toolbox workshop with young dancers in Zadar (HR)

2014 – Whatever Dance Toolbox workshop in collaboration with Prostor i taktika, (ex- students of new media and humanistic scieneces in zagreb) MM Centar, Student Centre Zagreb (HR)

2014 – workshop Whatever Dance Toolbox with young choreographers in the Spazio project (a collaborative project between International Choreographic Arts Centre – Amsterdam and Zagreb Dance Center)

2012 – presentation Whatever Dance Toolbox, Escenas Discursivas_thinking laboratory, Matadero, El Ranchito, Madrid (ESP)

2012 – presentation Whatever Dance Toolbox at the International conference ARTAUD FORUM 2: Konnecting Gestures. International Conference-Workshop on

Performance and Sound Technologies, Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London (UK)
2011 – workshop and presentation Whatever Dance Toolbox, Bath (UK)

2011 – presentation Whatever Dance Toolbox, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, presentation Whatever Dance Toolbox, Pleskavica Dance Festival, Ljubljana, workshop Whatever Dance Toolbox, Motion Bank, Frankfurt, presentation, workshop and installation Whatever Dance Toolbox, international symposium Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back, Pogon/Jedinstvo, Zagreb

2011 – choreographic workshop Recapitulations, Eks-Scena, Zagreb

2009 – workshop, Do It Yourself 2, Medika, Zagreb, workshop Do It Yourself 2, Zadar Dance School, Zadar, workshop Do It Yourself 2, Eks-Scena, Zagreb,  workshop Do It Yourself 2, Prostor Plus, Rijeka (HR)

2008 – individual sessions with Whatever Dance Toolbox with Croatian choreographers and dancers, Centar for Culture – Novi Zagreb, Zagreb, workshop Do It Yourself 1, Nomad Dance Academy, Tala Dance Centre, Zagreb

2007 – presentation Whatever Dance Toolbox, Gallery SC, Studentski centar, Zagreb

PUBLICATIONS

Electronic Media
Whatever Dance Toolbox, BADco. and Daniel Turing, Zagreb: BADco. 2010

Articles

The Minimum and, at the same time, the maximum, FRAKCIJA, Performing Arts Magazine

Choreographing ruptures, TREĆA, Center for Women Studies

Beautiful Monster of Collaboration, KRETANJA, performance art magazine

MEMBERSHIP:

2005 – present – Member of the Croatian Association of Dance Artists (UPUH)

2012 – 2014 – Member of the Board of UPUH

AWARDS:

2022 – Nomination for Croatian Dancers Association’s Award for choreography in On Pink-tinted Future

2015 – Croatian Association of Dance Artists Award for choreography in A Lesser Evil

2015 – Croatian Association of Dance Artists Award for solo performance in A Lesser Evil

2011 – Nomination for Croatian Dancers Association’s Award to BADco. for the installation “Responsibility for Things Seen” presented at Venice Biennial

2011 – Nomination together with Tomislav Gotovac for UniCredit Venice Award at Venice Biennial

2010 – Croatian Association of Dance Artists to BADco. for “outstanding contribution to development of dance”

2007 – Croatian Association of Dance Artists to Ekscena for special contribution to the development of contemporary dance