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Vanja Baltic

Teaching tutor

Department of the Arts

Curriculum vitae

Vanja Baltić, PhD in Visual, Performing and Media Arts, Department of the Arts, at the University of Bologna and in Theatre Science and Intermediality, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literature, at the University of Antwerp, (joint PhD degree, 2022).

Her PhD research of the title The Birth of a Tragic Hero(ine). On Tragic Excess in Contemporary Theatre (supervisors: Prof. Marco De Marinis, Prof. Luk Van den Dries, Prof. Gerardo Guccini, Prof. Timmy De Laet) proposes to analyse - through a series of references to ancient myths, literature, cinema and contemporary theatre - the contingency of excess, in its power to enable the disclosure of some intrinsic aspects of the experience of being a tragic hero: in a radical call for transformation, amidst merciless necessity to respond to the surrounding world, the hero receives the invitation to become such, to act freely.

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She currently works as a teaching tutor for the courses Theories and Techniques of Drama Composition (1) (LM, AY 2022-2023) and Dramaturgy (AY 2022-2023), conduced by Prof. Gerardo Guccini.

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During her academic studies, she has focused her main interests on 20th-century and contemporary theatre direction and dramaturgy. In 2017, she obtained a M.A. degree (with honours) at the University of Bologna in Music and Theatre Studies, Class of Performing Arts and Multimedia Productions, supervised by Prof. Claudio Longhi and Prof. Gerardo Guccini. She dedicated her Master's dissertation to the study of Jan Fabre's theatrical poetics, by focusing, in particular, on his exemplar Mount Olympus: To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24 hour performance (2015). In 2014, mentored by Prof. Claudio Longhi, she obtained a B.A. degree (with honours) in Drama, Art and Music Studies, researching The Living Theatre's Frankenstein, at the same University. She spent a period of her M.A. studies as an exchange student at the University of Ghent.

During her career, she collaborated in the context of workshops, working and research-oriented occasions with diverse professionals and theatrical entities, such as Teatro dell’Argine, ERT- Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Santarcangelo Festival, Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici – Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Jan Fabre's Troubleyn, Romeo Castellucci.

She speaks Montenegrin, Italian, English and Spanish.

 

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