dancer, pedagogue, performer, choreographer, coffee lover

Barbara Kanc (1984, Ljubljana) finished contemporary dance programme at the Pre-school Education, Grammar and Art Grammar School Ljubljana and went on to study at Trinity Laban in London. Upon graduating in 2007 she received the Trinity Laban’s Simone Michelle Award for outstanding achievements in choreography. She then slowly moved away from her primary medium of dance and started developing intermedia works and performance / movement / sound installations with Metod Blejec, Rie Nakajima and Marie Roux.

As dancer Barbara has worked with a number of choreographers and theatre directors: Maja Delak, Natalija Manojlović Varga, Mateja Bizjak, Dejan Srhoj, Katja Legin, Sanja Tropp Frühwald, AEIOU Theatre, Matjaž Farič, Iztok Kovač and Mala Kline. Between 2012 and 2017 she participated in the No!training Lab, conceived and led by choreographer Katja Legin and aimed at researching different aspects of performance art. Her ongoing interest in historical dances is reflected also in her collaboration with ensemble for early music Capella Carniola and with the ensemble for renaissance music and dance Cortesía.

In 2014 Barbara created Searchings Untitled, produced by Emanat Institute, which was included in the Biennial of Contemporary Dance Arts in Slovenia – Gibanica (Moving Cake). In recent years, she has collaborated with co-authors Tina Valentan and Anja Bornšek in the dance productions Eyes that Flitter and Pronicanja. Recently she has been working on interventions in nature and urban space with the projects Outside (2024) and Outside/Inside (and between): A Garden (2023), produced by the Dance Theatre Ljubljana.

She has been teaching creative and contemporary dance to children and young people since 2010, among other also at Laško-Radeče Music School, Španski borci Culture Centre, occasionally at Škuc Gallery, different primary schools and in the frame of the Public Fund for Cultural Activities Slovenia. Between 2012 and 2020, she led Plesalnice (Little Dancerooms), a dance workshop for children at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, she also teaches creative dance for children at the Intakt dance studio in Ljubljana. Among other things, she is also included in the inter-regional platform Generator – a network of artistic organisations that are engaged in the development and research of new dance and performative practices for young audiences.

Barbara finds endless delight in small things, in hardly perceptible subtleties and different kinds of presence. She likes to pause and search for meaning in seeming minutiae of life – as an explorer of inner universes on a quest to find the elusive purpose.

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