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'''Marjana Krajac''' is a choreographer and researcher based in [[Zagreb]].  
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Marjana Krajač (Zagreb, Croatia) is a 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.  
  
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She created more then 20 choreographic works for different dance companies and in wide range of formats. Reaching across the legacies of modernism and minimalism, she grippingly connects her somber choreographic panoramas with the intensity of profoundness and depth. Her works are often connected to relevant composers and authors of contemporary music and many of her recent works are directly created in collaboration with them.  
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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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She was awarded with the Croatian Theatre Award for the outstanding choreographic achievement and Annual Award of the Croatian Dance Artists Association for the choreographic achievement of the year (2014). Dance ensemble of her durational choreography Variations on Sensitive was awarded as the best dance achievement of the year (2015). In 2010 her work was nominated for T-HT Award of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
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She is the artistic director of [http://sodaberg.hr/ Sodaberg Choreographic Laboratory] in Zagreb, a platform for choreographic and dance research.  
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She was selected as Choreoroam Europe Artist by CSC Bassano del Grappa – Opera Estate Festival (Italy), The Place London (UK), Rotterdam Dansateliers (Netherlands), a-2/Certamen Choreography Paso de Madrid (Spain) and Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Croatia), where she developed her research mentored by choreographer Rosemary Butcher (2011).
 
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She collaborated and danced for and with numerous choreographers in Germany, France and Croatia and has participated in research projects with artists such as Meg Stuart and Mårten Spångberg, as well as in several academic research projects. She was also influenced by some of the relevant masters of dance, like prima ballerina and John Cranco’s leading dancer Ms. Marcia Haydée and Croatian avant-garde choreographer active during ’60s & ’70s, now deceased, Ms. Milana Bros.
 
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She graduated at the State Conservatory for Dance Ana Maletic in Zagreb (Croatia), a conservatory of 8-years duration that has a strong focus on ballet and contemporary dance, classical music and choreographic systems. She continued her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Berlin (Germany) graduating with the BA degree at the Dance Department. Afterwards, she expanded her studies towards theology and history at Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany).
 
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In 2015 she was a jury member of the ''Ana Roje Award'', the yearly award of the Ballet of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Her recent work, a main stage ballet for 16 dancers titled ''Dark Landscapes'', created for the Ballet of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, premiered in November 2016 and was in 2017/2018 repertoire.
 
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Marjana also writes about dance and choreography related subjects and her texts have been published in New York’s ''Movement Research Performance Journal'', Croatian Performing Arts Magazine ''Frakcija'' and Croatian Journal for Dance Art ''Kretanja''. In August 2018, a collection of her essays about the choreographic process, its reflections and intellectual repercussions was published as a book, titled ''Choreographic Journal: seeing / vidjeti''.
 
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She is artistic director of [http://sodaberg.hr/ Sodaberg Choreographic Laboratory] in Zagreb, a platform for choreographic and dance research.  
 
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* ''[[Media:Krajac_Marjana_Choreographic_Journal_seeing_vidjeti_2018.pdf|Choreographic Journal: seeing / vidjeti]]'', ed. Zee Hartmann, Zagreb: Sodaberg koreografski laboratorij, 2018, 108 pp. [http://www.marjanakrajac.com/books/choreographic_journal] {{en}},{{cr}}
 
  
 
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* [https://www.marjanakrajac.com Home page]
 
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Revision as of 19:33, 27 July 2023

Marjana Krajač (Zagreb, Croatia) is a 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.

She is the artistic director of Sodaberg Choreographic Laboratory in Zagreb, a platform for choreographic and dance research.

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