Ana Dubljevic (1980, Serbia) is an artist based in Belgrade working with dance, choreography and performance. In her choreographic works, which are mainly based on collaborative authorship – “Koreoerotikon”, “Only mine alone”, “Still to come, a feminist pornscape”, “Tender fights 2020”, “Cement Belgrade” to name the recent ones– Ana deals with questions of artistic collaboration and is interested in exploring various ways of creating in non-hierarchical structures.
She graduated from The College of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade, Serbia and MA in Choreography and Performance at The Institute of Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany, with a guest student status in MA Dramaturgy of performance, The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia.
Mentors who made significant impact on her work are Bojana Kunst, Sergej Pristaš, Ana Vujanović, Marten Spangberg, Martin Sonderkamp and Jonathan Borrows. She performed for Marcelo Evelin and Dalija Acin Thelander amongst others, was the recipient of scholarships of dance educational programs like DanceWeb, Nomad Dance Academy and Movement Research, was an artist resident in various European art centers such are Academy Schloss Solitude, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Buda in Kortrijk etc., her work was supported by European dance networks like APAP and DNA, and performed in festivals in the Balkans and the wider European context.
Since 2006 she is an active collaborator of Station, service for contemporary dance in Belgrade – as a cultural worker, a member of the board, she contributed to development and visibility of the Belgrade dance scene, she co-curated Kondenz Festival of contemporary dance and performance and enriched non-formal dance education on the scene with her mentorship skills.
In recent years Ana continues to develop her research on feminist dramaturgy in dance and performance. In 2021 Station servise for contemporary dance published her book “The feminist pornscapes, on feminist dramaturgical thinking in dance and performance practice”. One of the chapters was published in Maska journal 203-204 “Voice of dance”. In the same year, the theater performance “Cement Belgrade” that she coauthored together with Sebastian Horvat and Milan Markovic Ramsak, won the Grand Prix Award of the 54/55th Bitef Festival in Belgrade.
Ana is passionate about erotic poetry and hopes for a planetary general strike.
