About
milkadj.wordpress.com is a venue for sharing thoughts, observations, encounters, and occurrences related (or not) to Milka Djordjevich’s contemporary performance practice. Her artistic engagement is strongly tied to the various communities with which she interacts, and she is always searching for ways to create small links between different communities, practices, and ideas.
Milka Djordjevich is a dance artist dividing her time between New York, San Francisco and Europe. Raised by Serbian parents in Long Beach, California, she received a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Choreography from Sarah Lawrence College. Milka’s choreography has been shown at several New York City venues, including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Church, and The Chocolate Factory Theater, and internationally in Austria, France, Italy, Poland, and Serbia. She has performed for Heather Kravas, The Giant Women (Dragana Bulut, Gillie Kleiman, Ligia Soares), Elizabeth Ward, Natalie Green, Sam Kim, and Jennifer Monson, among others. Milka was a 2006-2007 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a visiting artist/student at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), and a 2008 & 2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar. Curatorial projects include co-curating the Movement Research Spring Festival 2008: Somewhere Out There and Re-Imagining Utopia In NYC, an Austria-NYC dialog. Milka also was a guest editor of the Movement Research Performance Journal #34 is a current guest editor for Critical Correspondence. Recent collaborations include music-dance investigations with composer Chris Peck and Made in China with Serbian dance artist Dragana Bulut. She had the great pleasure of co-running BARN, and she is an active member of Embassy of WTF.
