choreographer, dance pedagogue, author, producer, media artist Maya Milenovic Workman (1959, Maribor) works between Slovenia and the USA since 1980. After graduating from the London Contemporary Dance School, she moved to New York and earned her undergraduate (liberal arts, fosuc psychology) and graduate (media, focus fiilm) degrees at the New…
Jana Menger
dancer, performer, choreographer, theatre practitioner, pedagogue Jana Menger (1973, Novo mesto) started dancing and training gymnastics at an early age in Novo mesto. She soon discovered contemporary dance and started taking dance and performing arts workshops with national and international teachers. She started her professional career in 1993, when she…
Jana Kovač Valdés
dance and music pedagogue, choreographer, mime artist, head of contemporary dance department Jana Kovač Valdés (1958, Slovenj Gradec) started her training in contemporary dance and music relatively late, in her teens. She took her first dance classes with a well-known Celje-based dance teacher Ana Vovk Pezdirc, who at the time…
Ivan Mijačević
inter-cultural co-worker Ivan Mijačević (Ptuj, 1979) is a maker with versatile artistic skills – a creator, researcher and pedagogue in the fields of dance and music and an assistant teacher of preschool children. He received his Master’s degree in the dissemination of dance in a contemporary context from the University…
Nina Meško
choreographer, dancer, pedagogue, expert adviser for dance Nina Meško (1973, Ptuj) has been working as an independent expert advisor for dance at the Public Fund for Cultural Activities of Republic of Slovenia (JSKD) since 1997, after gaining considerable recognition in the Slovenian dancing circles as a contemporary dancer and choreographer.…
Gregor Luštek
choreographer, dancer, theatre practitioner, pedagogue Gregor Luštek (1973, Novo Mesto, Slovenia) studied at the Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana. He has trained in a variety of dance techniques, ranging from Classical Ballet to Contact Improvisation, Somatic Practices, and Martial Arts. His artistic expression is characterised by soft yet athletic movement,…
Nina Fajdiga
dancer, choreographer, performer, pedagogue Nina Fajdiga (1979, Ljubljana) graduated from School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 2007. Her solo and collaborative performances have been shown at different domestic and international dance festivals. In 2006 she won the Young Choreographer’s Award at the International Theatre School Festival for her…
Kaja Lorenci
dancer, choreographer, pedagogue Kaja (Valenti) Lorenci (1981, Maribor) graduated from the SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2006 and subsequently worked with choreographers Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Mateja Bučar, Gregor Luštek and Rosana Hribar, Madeleine Karlsson and Aleksandra Stratimirović, Shimrit Golan, Katja Legin, Nataša Berce, Karmina Šilec (Carmina Slovenica)…
Katja Legin
performer, choreographer, dramaturge, pedagogue Katja Legin (Ljubljana, 1985) graduated from Laban Conservatoire of Dance in London. As part of her MA studies in theatre directing (Academy for theatre, radio, film and television in Ljubljana) she wrote a longer text, which was later published as the book Dualities: The Performer and…
Jasmina Križaj
dancer, choreographer, pedagogue Jasmina Križaj (1982, Maribor, Slovenia) graduated in choreography from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam. She has presented her performances at many festivals at home and abroad. With the piece Zebra in the Hair Saloon she received the award for the…