Ana Jelušić

Ana Jelušić (1982) is a dance artist and Feldenkrais practitioner. She received her dance education at the BA program: Dance, context, choreography at HZT/University of the Arts in Berlin. She was part of the feminist choreographic collective Female trouble with Roni Katz and Agata Siniarska, collaborated with artists Alex Martinis Roe and Christian Falsnaes in Berlin, and in Zagreb collaborated with Roberta Milevoj, Ana Kreitmeyer, Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Rosalind Crisp and Marjana Krajač. She is the author of her own works Girl like, Oh and Vulnerable bodies, in which she collaborated with Nina Gojić, Marta Krešić and Zrinka Užbinec. She is the winner of the Tanzquartier Wien Werkstueck residency program for young choreographers. She organized UPUH’s program: Missing Encounters – Around the Gaze in 2024, which dealt with methodologies of watching in the field of performative arts. She was part of ekscena choreographic laboratory: Choreotherapy under the guidance of Anna Juren and Maria Francesca Scaroni. Along her dance work, she practices the Feldenkrais method for which she was trained in Vienna at the Feldenkrais Institut.  She frequently guides classes and workshops of the Feldenkrais method in Zagreb, Split, Šibenik and other cities in Croatia. She is part of the Somahut study group, a two-year Erasmus project of the European Union in cooperation with the Interlace symposium at the Impulstanz festival in Vienna. Before she started dancing, she completed her studies in English and Spanish at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She continues her education in the field of the Feldenkrais method, as well as other somatic practices. She is a member of the UPUH.