Dance Week Festival

Choreographer, author and dancer; was educated at the State school for contemporary dance in Zagreb and graduated at the Academy for the perfoming arts -Die Etage- in Berlin. She worked with Groupe Dunes in Marseille, France and after the graduation she collaborates and dances for and with numerous choreographers in Berlin and works as a lecturer for choreography and contemporary dance at The Akademie - academy for acting studies in Berlin.

Her artistic work connects a strong choreographic signature with a curiosity for a new approach to movement material and concepts of performing. Since 2005 she is especially dedicated to, simplified defined, the interface of opera and body material in the broad sense.

Using Resnais’ film “Je t’aim, Je t’aiim” as the structural source, “Victoria Beckham has a Migraine” as a performance aims to temporarily stop and delay referential fields that open as referential fields through its title. By way of quotes and paraphrasing earlier works of author Marjana Krajač and those of other performers, accompanied by taxonomic repetetion of historical events that marked 1926, the uncritical reaching out for the recent and less so pop-products, Puccini’s opera “Manon Lescaut”, interviews with Paris Hilton; the performance uses accumulation as a functional switch  for hierarchy. By a deliberate depolitization of content and performance, without an attempt of repolitization which would happen through another type of performing entity, “Victoria Beckham” continues to seek a space where its implicit political state is virtualy present yet unfulfilled.

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Croatian Choreographic Platform

concept, author & choreography: Marjana Krajač

dramaturgy: Oliver Frljić

performed by: Larisa Lipovac, Maja Marjančić, Roberta Milevoj, Andreja Široki

performance support: Tamara Curić, Selma Banich

video support: Rodion

light design: Miljenko Bengez

duration: 80′

Produced by CIMD, with the support of City Office for Culture Zagreb and Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia, through the working platform of EkS-scena and with support of TALA within the choreographic laboratory The Adventure of Impulstanz Festival Vienna 2006