Jasmina Križaj

Jasmina Križaj was born in Maribor, Slovenia (1982). In the age of 15 she replaced sport world with dance. She studied choreography at The Theaterschool Amsterdam, department For New Dance Development, where she graduated in the year 2006. Before coming to Amsterdam, she worked in many projects of established Slovene choreographers (Snježana Premuš, Matej Kejžar,…). While her study she was working for many international choreographers and she got the opportunity to start making her own pieces. With a solo “Cross my Desert with that Cheap Talk You’ve Set” she got chosen to participate on the Batard Festival in Brussels (2005). The next one “Zebra in the Hair Saloon” was presented on Act Festival in Bilbao (2006), where she won the first award for The Best New Creation. In 2007 she created a new production for Plesna izba Maribor, “In the Shadow of Prestige” and a duet with Nina Fajdiga (“H.A.W.B.F.A. – HabitsAreWorthBeingFanaticalAbout”) for Danswerkplaats Amsterdam. Jasmina was also one of the few selected artists who worked with David Zambrano in the international workshop “50 days of Flying Low and Passing Through Costa Rica 2010”. Out of that came the collective named 50 CollectiVe. In year 2010 the group gave many performances all around Europe and America. Right now she is also part of a collective called “Sugar Rush” with Nina Fajdiga, Tian Rotteveel and Jernej Jurc, which launched out their first project in 2009, supported by European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Her last work, “… and call me Antonia”, was presented end of last year under the production of Zavod Emanat Ljubljana.