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Maja Delak, choreographer, dancer, pedagogue based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She studied at CNDC L'Esquisse in Angers, France. She has extensive stage and film experience performing especially with En-Knap Dance Company and has worked with film and video artists in Slovenia (Saso Podgorsek, Hanna A.W. Slak, Ema Kugler, Maja Weiss, Zemira A. Pecovnik, Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid). She has created and toured with her own choreographies: Manifestation of the Introvert, Gina & Miovanni, 6agon, Mezzanino. In collaboration with Mala Kline, dancer and choreographer, she created Properly Blonde in 2004 as closing performance of Agon programme, Gallery of Dead Women (2005) and then Rondinella and HI-RES, together with Croat Mauricio Ferlin, video artist and designer. In year 2006 Maja choreographed a piece “Flogging the Dead Horse” for students of AHK in Amsterdam. On the base of HI-RES in 2006 Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid created a video with the same title. In collaboration with Mauricio Ferlin in January 2007 Maja created a dance / lecture / performance for youth audience titled Rodeo. Her last piece for 7 performers Expensive Darlings has been premiered in October 2007 and in May 2008 Serata artistica giovanile. In 2006, she established institute EMANAT (www.emanat.si), with which she aims for the affirmation and development of contemporary dance – both with performance production as well as with a book programme (Transitions series) and education (AGON program).

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The Lovers

The Lovers:For Marina Abramovic and Ulay, whom she met in 1975, the main creative sources were the thoughts about the relationships and the dialectics that appear with team work. "The Lovers" (1988) i...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:17:00 GMT

reartikulacija / Drage drage - revizija/ Expensive Darlings - revision

slo verzijawww.reartikulacija.org/teorija_in_praksa/teorija_in_p raksa4_SLO.htmleng versionwww.reartikulacija.org/teorija_in_praksa/teorija_in_p raksa4_ENG.html
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:09:00 GMT

serata artistica giovanile; landscape I & II


Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 13:14:00 GMT

7th May 2008

Maja Delak: Serata artistica giovanile New performance of Maja Delak Choreography and direction: Maja DelakCreated and performed by: Matija Ferlin, Matej Kej~ar, Jurij K...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:42:00 GMT

Pitati z ljubeznijo

Pitati z ljubeznijo /// Pitanje vedno povezujem s prasici. Tistimi, ki jih s skrbno prehrano temeljito pripravijo za zakol. Da lahko najvec naredijo in dajo od svojega  bitja. In s tem izpolnijo ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT

Expensive Darlings / Drage drage

Ljubljana: 28th and 29th of January at 8.00 pm, Ljubljana Dance Theatre / Plesni teater Ljubljana, Prijateljeva 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia Price: ¬ 10; 7 (students, seniors) Nova Gorica 30th of January at...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:40:00 GMT

my new family member

 
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:49:00 GMT

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Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:26:00 GMT

In memory of Franci Slak

Today when I heard this sad news, I remembered a piece of poem by Mina Loy.... Out of the severing Of hill from hill The interim Of star from star The nascent Static Of night
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:33:00 GMT

Expensive Darlings; an intervew with Maja Delak; by Katja Praznik

Expensive Darlings / An Interview with Maja Delak / by Katja Praznik  Why did you choose contemporary dance as your medium?   I have never entered into contemporary dance ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:14:00 GMT