Marjana Krajač is prominent Croatian choreographers, a recipient of the Croatian Theatre Award for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement, as well as several other significant national professional awards. Her artistic career spans more than twenty years of continuous creative work in both national and international contexts. Notably, she developed the eight-year choreographic series Urgent Fantasies and created the ballet Dark Landscapes in 2016 for the Ballet of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
She has participated in artistic research led by several renowned European choreographers, including Meg Stuart, Mårten Spångberg, and Rosemary Butcher. In 2011, she was selected as a Choreoroam Europe Artist. She regularly publishes writings on dance in professional performing arts journals, and in 2018, she released a book of collected choreographic essays titled Choreographic Journal: Seeing / Vidjeti.
Since 2006, she has been the artistic director of the Sodaberg Choreographic Laboratory, an organization and research platform based in Zagreb. She completed her dance education at the Ana Maletić State School of Contemporary Dance in Zagreb, earned her degree from the Academy of Performing Arts in Berlin, and in 2024, obtained a Ph.D. in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University, USA.
