Marjana Krajač
Marjana Krajač (Zagreb, Croatia) is a choreographer, choreographic researcher, and Ph.D. candidate in Dance Studies, as well as a Graduate Teaching Associate at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the emancipatory potentials of dance, foregrounding contemporaneity as a structural, dynamic, and radical practice, with an emphasis on site, media, text, and process. She has received numerous awards for her choreographic work that explores various symptoms, processes, and temporalities of form. She has published in Movement Research Performance Journal, Performing Arts Journal Frakcija, Dance Arts Journal Kretanja/Movements, and Body, Space, and Technology Journal. A collection of her essays titled Choreographic Journal: seeing / vidjeti was published as a book in 2018. She graduated from State Conservatory for Dance in Zagreb, earned a BFA in Dance from the Academy of the Performing Arts in Berlin, and has studied theology and history at Humboldt University in Berlin.
She has presented her research at The New School in New York City, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Chapman University in Orange California, Birkbeck University of London, Kingston University of London, University of Glasgow, Ruhr University of Bochum, Theatre Academy at Østfold University in Fredrikstad, Saint Louis University in Madrid, Midwest Slavic Association, Central Eurasian Studies Society, Dance Studies Association, Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University in Montréal, and Research Academy at the Zurich University of the Arts.
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