ABOUT
Jan Rozman is a choreographer, performer, and dancer working between Ljubljana and Berlin. His choreographic work is object based, currently focusing on the question of autonomy of bodies. By crossing and hybridizing performance genres, he develops a post-internet performance language, interweaving humor into it.
He studied at the Secondary School of Contemporary Dance, pursued choreography at the SNDO (AhK) in Amsterdam, and in 2018 completed his master's degree in performing arts in the SODA program at HZT (UdK + EB) in Berlin. In 2016, he graduated in physiotherapy from the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ljubljana.
He has created several original works, including Wetware, O (die shOw),(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻screamage, THINGS THING, MEMEMEME, and Thinging, which have been presented in Slovenia (Gibanica, CoFestival, Platform of Contemporary Dance) and Berlin (PAF Berlin, NO LIMITS, Augenblick Mal!). His work has also been featured elsewhere (Théâtre de la Ville, Judson Church Theatre, Antistatic Festival, Improspekcije, Politik im Freien Theater, Artificial Realities). Since 2014, he has collaborated in various roles with Milan Tomášik, Katja Legin, Dejan Srholj, Maja Delak, Deborah Hay, Andrej Uerba, Bor Ravbar, and others. In collaboration with Dan Pikalo, he has co-authored several set designs.
For the realization of his works, he regularly collaborates with the Emanat Institute, where since 2020 he has also been a member of the techno-burlesque collective The Feminalz / Image Snatchers. He is a member of the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia association and is a board member of the Slovenian Contemporary Dance Association. Together with Julia Keren Turbahn and Jan Kress he is a co-founder and artistic director of the group baff, which focuses on developing inclusive dance performances for young deaf and hearing audiences.
For his work, he received the 2019 Ksenija Hribar Award for Promising Choreographer and a danceWEB scholarship at the Impulstanz festival. The performance Thingingreceived the main award at the 10th Gibanica, the Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art, in 2021. The performance THINGS THING, created in collaboration with Julia Keren Turbahn, received a special jury award in 2021 for its playful critique of (non)useful plastic objects at the 11th Slovene Biennial of Puppetry, and in 2023 it also received the main children's jury award at the Wildwechsel festival in Zwickau. THINGS THING was also selected among the top five children's performances at the Augenblick Mal! festival in Berlin. In May 2025, the performance O (die shOw) by the group baff was included among the top five children's performances at the latest edition of the Augenblick Mal! festival.
photo: Asiana Jurca Avci