Ph.D. in Philosophy, Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London
I am a dramaturg and researcher, and my writing, performances and videos interweave performance matters and critical theory. Before I came to teach Dance Theory at KhiO, I was mainly engaged in collective platforms for self-organized work and self-education, including
Performing Arts Forum (
www.pa-f.net, St. Erme, France, where I am still active). I taught at contemporary dance and art programs in Europe (among others, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, where I have taught since 2002, and Utrecht University’s Theater Studies from 2009 to 2013). Belgrade is the city in which I learnt to protest and to forge political solidarity with artists and cultural workers on the independent scene. As a co-founding member of the TkH/Walking Theory editorial collective (2000-2015), I co-organized various research projects and
a journal for performance theory. My collaboration with Ana Vujanović extended to
Public Sphere by Performance (2012) and
Toward a Transindividual Self (2022), both co-written with her.
I entered the field of theater, dance and performance through opera and experimental musical theater during my studies in musicology and aesthetics (B.A. musicology, M.A. musicology and aesthetics, FMU Belgrade). From 1996 until 2008, I organized and directed performances on the independent scene in Belgrade in which the musical score, for example, a classic like Mozart’s Don Giovanni, would break open into a mobile architecture and dance. I want to produce situations in which spectators or visitors in a gallery take responsibility for their embodied gaze. I pursued this end in Spatial Confessions (Tate Modern, 2014), exploring social choreography as a method to make bodies appear in public.
Since I moved to Brussels in 2000, I have devised and performed in a series of text-based works with the Dutch theater director Jan Ritsema (TODAYUlysses, Pipelines, A Construction and more). Immersed in the performing arts in Belgium, I began to explore contemporary dance in parallel, which brought me to many collaborations with choreographers and theatermakers in Europe, such as Mette Ingvartsen, Eszter Salamon, Christine De Smedt, Xavier Le Roy, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, BADco, Anders Paulin and more.
