Bojana Cvejic

Bojana Cvejić (Belgrade) is a performance theorist and performance maker based in Brussels. She is a co-founding member of TkH editorial collective (http://www.tkh-generator.net) with whom she has realized many projects and publications. Cvejić received her PhD in philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, London and MA and BA degrees in musicology and aesthetics from the Faculty of Music, University of the Arts, Belgrade.

Her latest books are Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance (Palgrave, forthcoming), Drumming & Rain: A Choreographer’s Score, co-written with A.T.De Keersmaeker (Mercator, Brussels, 2014), Parallel Slalom: Lexicon of Nonaligned Poetics, co-edited with G. S. Pristaš (TkH/CDU, Belgrade/Zagreb, 2013) and Public Sphere by Performance, co-written with A. Vujanović (b_books, Berlin, 2012). She has been (co-)author, dramaturge or performer in many dance and theater performances since 1996, with a.o. J. Ritsema (Verwantschappen; TODAYulysses; Pipelines, a construction; knowH2Ow; Cocos, Breeding, Brains and Beauty), X. Le Roy (Mouvements für Lachenmann, The Rite of Spring, More Mouvements für Lachenmann), E. Salamon (And Then; Tales of the Bodiless), M. Ingvartsen (It’s In The Air; The Artificial Nature Project, 69 Positions), C. De Smedt (Untitled [Four Choreographic Portraits]). She directed five experimental opera stagings, most notably Don Giovanni at BITEF, Belgrade, 2008. Her latest works are videos …in a non-wimpy way… and Yvonne Rainer’s WAR (in collaboration with Lennart Laberenz) for the exhibition Danse Guerre at CCN Rennes (she co-curated with Cosmin Costinas 2013) and Spatial Confessions at Tate Modern (2014), the program she curated and made choreography, conference and performance for (in collaboration with a.o. Christine De Smedt).