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Dean Damjanovski

Location: Skopje, Macedonia

Genres: Interdisciplinary art, Performance

Languages: English, Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian

Interest: I Performance methods and practices of the XX-eth century

II Performance art as "time-based" art (the paradox of the "performance time")

III "Physicality" of the performance (body & time)

IV "Liminal" forms of performance art (1. on the border with other artistic and non-artistic forms; 2. between theory and performance practice)


Bio: PROFESSION 
Director

FORMAL EDUCATION
• 06. 2005 graduated MA program "Principles of Theatre Research" at the Theatre Department of the New Bulgarian University with the thesis “Grotesque as a Method for Developing Theatre Forms  

• 02.2001 Graduated in BA program "Acting  and  Directing" at the Theatre Department in New Bulgarian University; specialty Theatre Directing and Acting  

• 1992-1996 High School Of Mathematics in Bitola, Macedonia

INFORMAL EDUCATION
• 09.2001  Interdisciplinary Summer School for Contemporary Theatre Theory and Practics on the student festival “Dionisija” in Sozopol, Bulgaria

• 02. - 06.2001 seminar "Ritual-Theatre-ritual" organized by New Bulgarian University and Varna Summer Festival

• 12.2000 seminar "Theatre and Postmodernism", lecturer Knut Ove Arntzen (Norway) held in Sofia

• 08.2000 participant at a seminar organized by YUSTAT "Balkan city as a stage for the 21st century", Belgrade, Yugoslavia

• 06.2000 workshop “Actor-space-spectator” held by Barry Edwards in Varna, Bulgaria in the educational program of the festival “Varna Summer 2000”

• 06.1999 participant in the group of workshops on the Varna Theatre Festivals called “Extradaily Bodies” led by international group of coaches

• 03.1998 Participant  of  the  International  Workshop  Festival  “The  Way  Of  The  Warrior” held  in  London

• Participant  in  the  “Maulverke” workshop held in  Sofia.

• 01.1998 Participant  in the MAPA (Moving  Academy  of Performing  Arts) held  in  Sofia.

• Participant  in  the workshop of  Laban  Technics  led  by  Gy  Sonnen.

• Participant  in  seminar “Theatre  and  Anthropology”  run  by  Dolf  Van  Graas.