MAJA HRIESIK was born in ex-Yugoslavia and is based in Slovakia from the late 90s, where she completed MA studies in aesthetics and MA in theatre directing and dramaturgy. She oscillates between dance dramaturgy, installation work and film but also between creation and advocating and nurturing the better conditions for other freelance dance artists. She is a founding member of PlaST – a platform which is running a dance residency space and is advocating for better conditions and visibility of Slovak contemporary dance www.plast.dance. She has initiated several workshop programmes for emerging performers, worked as editor-in-chief of a Slovak dance magazine Salto (2006-2011), curator and researcher at Slovak Theatre Institute, curator of international theatre festival Divadelna Nitra. Presently she has devoted herself more to production dramaturgy. She is also lecturing at the Academy of Performing Arts and is a member of the curatorial team of a European project Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance. In 2013 she published a book of essays following her PhD research project entitled "On Corporeal Dramaturgies in Contemporary Dance".
Photography by Michal Liner
Last Updated: 2021