Newly published (August 2018), CHOREOGRAPHIC JOURNAL: seeing / vidjeti, by choreographer Marjana Krajač and dramaturg Zee Hartmann, is a collection of essays about the artistic process, its reflections and subsequent communications. This publication aims to open up spaces for possible thinking about dance and performance in its wider scope as an assortment of different phenomena that, in its totality, are constituting choreographic work and its various fields of significance. The presentation will include a talk about the processes of choreographic activation within the broader perspective of site-specific and performative gestures, linking the notions of metaphorical inner and outer spaces.
Marjana Krajač is one of the most prominent Croatian choreographers and the author of numerous choreographic works and research projects. The recipient of multiple awards, the most recent being the Croatian Theatre Award for outstanding choreographic achievement and the Annual Award of the Croatian Dance Artists Association for the choreographic achievement of the year. Often creating within the wide range of choreographic formats, Marjana continuously expands her artistic work by focusing on invested choreographic thinking and profound understandings of the nature of dance. She currently resides in Zagreb.
Zee Hartmann is a dramaturg and author from Cape Town, South Africa. She holds degrees from Beloit College in Wisconsin (BA Dance) and from Sarah Lawrence College in New York (MFA Dance). She also held a full-time position as the Head Archivist for the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation in New York from 2011-2013. In 2018 Zee will graduate with an MA in Dramaturgy from the University of Cape Town. Zee is currently working on developing and collecting dramaturgical strategies rooted in negative feedback systems. She currently resides in Amsterdam.
The presentation is planed on Tuesday 11th Sep, 6 pm - Drawing Room.
Please note that this event is NOT a part of Tuesday's lectures program.
It is a free event and opened for the public. Alumni from NTA, other students from HiØ and professionals in the field are very welcome.
Please note that since the space is rather limited. Send an email to <nemanja.cadjo@gmail.com>, if you would like to attend this event.