Bojana Cvejić RS

Bojana Cvejić is a performance theorist and maker based in Brussels, and a co-founding member of the TkH editorial collective. Cvejić holds degrees in musicology and philosophy (PhD, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, London). Since 1996, she has (co-)authored and collaborated in many dance and theatre performances with J. Ritsema, X. Le Roy, E. Salamon, M. Ingvartsen, and E. Hrvatin. Her own performance work involves five independent opera productions, of which the latest was her staging of Don Giovanni at BITEF festival Belgrade (2008). Cvejić has published widely in philosophy, performance theory, and musicology, in magazines, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and three single--authored and five co-authored/edited books. Her latest books are Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance (Palgrave, 2015), 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). Cvejić teaches at various dance and performance programmes throughout Europe (e.g. P.A.R.T.S. Brussels). Her latest works include the exhibition Danse Guerre at CCN Rennes (2013) and Spatial Confessions at Tate Modern (2014). She has been researcher and lecturer at Theater Studies, Utrecht University, 2009-2013 and currently holds the post of Associated Professor in Philosophy of Art at Faculty for Media and Communication, Singidunum University in Belgrade. Her field of research includes continental philosophy, contemporary performance, dance and theater, social choreography, and, most recently, performance of the self, individualism and rhythms of intensified work.