dancer, choreographer, pedagogue With her work Jasna Knez (1949, Trieste) has been continuing the tradition of Slovene modern dance as developed by Živa Kraigher (and established by Meta Vidmar, who founded and ran the first Slovenian private dance school from 1933 to 1956). A student of Živa Kraigher, Jasna started…

dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, artistic director Mojca Kasjak (1971, Maribor) graduated first from geography and sociology at the Maribor University and in 1997 finished a specialisation course at the London Contemporary Dance School in Great Britain. In her years-long career she created many performances, organised numerous projects and received many dance-related…

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…

performance artist, yoga instructor Maja Kalafatić (1984, Celje) is a dancer, choreographer, pedagogue and yoga instructor, living and working between Ljubljana and Belgrade (Serbia). Maja started dancing in 1988 in Dance Forum Celje, where she trained for further 15 years and during this period performed in practically all Forum’s performances…

performance artist, dancer, circus artist, clown (…) Tina Janežič (1974, Ljubljana) developed her interest in theatrical performance as an art form at an early age. She first trained and competed in gymnastics and later, unhappy with her pharmacy studies (which she graduated from in 2008), started taking professional dance classes…

choreographer, dancer, pedagogue Rosana Hribar (1973, Novo mesto) is a visible representative of a generation of contemporary dancers who took up dance professionally in the 1980s. She attended numerous dance seminars at home and abroad and later graduated from the Dance Academy in Ljubljana and received a master’s degree from…

dancer, choreographer, dancer, pedagogue Tina (Martina) Dobaj (1980, Maribor) finished her dance studies at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels (2002). She later joined the dance company ROSAS, led and founded by the acclaimed Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and also performed in William Forsyth’s The Vile Parody of Address. Upon returning…

dancer, choreographer, dance pedagogue, artistic director Ksenija Hribar (1938, Ljubljana, Slovenia) finished secondary ballet school in Ljubljana and after a short engagement at the Slovene National Opera and Ballet Ljubljana went on to study dance at the Marie Rambert School of Ballet in Great Britain. She later studied at the…

dancer, choreographer, performer, pedagogue Evin Hadžialjević (1986, Ljubljana) completed contemporary dance programme at the Pre-school Education, Art Grammar and Grammar School in Ljubljana in 2005 and went on to graduate from Trinity Laban, London, with a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre in 2008. In 2004, she also finished pedagogical training…

choreographer, stage director, dancer, artistic director Matjaž Farič (1965, Ptuj) started his career as dancer and choreographer in the 1980s, after graduating from the Maribor Ballet School and the Palucca School of Dance in Dresden, Germany. Later, in 2010, he also graduated from Theatre Directing at the Academy of Theatre,…