She works in the fields of visual and performance art: expanded choreography and performance lectures, often combined with video installations, drawing, and/or graphics.

Štark develops her works through the exploration of social conventions, communication themes, and the complexity of relationships — both interpersonal and those between humans, society, media, and nature. Within her practice, she develops a performative vocabulary of the subtle body, based on everyday communicative gestures, inspired by the dance body and performance lectures.

After completing her graduate studies at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, she completed her undergraduate studies in contemporary dance at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb.

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She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Applied Health Sciences and studied Dance Science (Physiology) at the University of Chichester, United Kingdom.

She focuses on rehabilitation through a holistic approach to the body and personal habits, both for dancers and other athletes.

She lives in Zagreb, where she trained at the Ana Maletić School of Contemporary Dance, and later completed her undergraduate studies in Anthropology and Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

She continues her dance education through various workshops and trainings, learning from both local and international artists. She has collaborated with several choreographers, including Matej Kejžar, Ana Kreitmeyer, Martina Tomić, Silvia Marchig, and Irma Omerzo.

Ana is a member of the research improvisation collective SAUNA and an affiliated member of the SomaHut somatic platform. She received a professional award in 2023 in the category “Encouragement for a Young Performer under 28.”

Ana Jelušić is a dance artist and Feldenkrais practitioner. She received her dance education through 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, and collaborated with artists Alex Martinis Roe and Christian Falsnaes in Berlin. In Zagreb, she has worked with Robert Milevoj, Ana Kreitmeyer, Marko Gutić Mižimak, Rosalind Crisp, and Marjana Krajač.

She is the author of her own works Girl Like, Oh, and Vulnerable Bodies, collaborating with Nina Gojić, Marta Krešić, and Zrinka Užbinec. Ana is a recipient of the Tanzquartier Wien Werkstück residency program for young choreographers. She organized UPUH’s program “Encounters that are Missing – The Eye of the Gaze” (2024), focused on methodologies of viewing in performance practice. She also participated in the choreographic laboratory exscene: Koreoterapija, led by Anna Juren and Maria Francesca Scaroni.

In addition to choreography, she practices somatics through the Feldenkrais Method, trained in Vienna, and regularly leads Feldenkrais classes and workshops in Zagreb, Split, Šibenik, and other cities in Croatia. She is part of the SomaHut Study Group, a two-year Erasmus+ project in collaboration with the Interlace Symposium at the ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna.

Before pursuing dance, Ana completed her studies in English and Spanish at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She continues her education in the Feldenkrais Method as well as other somatic practices. Ana is a member of UPUH.

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Education:
– 2002. Faculty of Kinesiology, Zagreb

Work experience:
from 2005 onwards: Recreation Manager, Zagreb Sports Association – “Sports for All” programs: exercise in local self-government, Nordic walking, Nordic skiing, alpine skiing

from 2013 onwards: Trainer of the Movement Intelligence program

2017 onwards:  Mind Body Study Academy Feldenkrais Practitioner

“Linking Thought and Movement for Continuous Improvement”

from 2019 onwards: external associate at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb

Consultations, courses, programs, workshops:
As a practitioner of the Feldenkrais and Movement Intelligence method, she conducts consultations and individual and group exercises with people of different ages and health conditions.

As an organizer and instructor of certified, internationally recognized courses from the Movement Intelligence program, she leads the following programs:

Bones for life – basic program of exercises
Bones for life on Chairs / Kosti za život – exercise program on chairs
Walk for life / Hodanje za život – a program of exercises to improve natural movement skills in nature and indoors

Movement solutions – Solutions for movement disorders Organizer of international workshops:

2012. Learn to move with minimal effort with the Feldenkrais method
(instructor Dr. Mara Fusero)

since 2013 twice a year: Feldenkrais workshops and Anat Baniel method/ Workshops for experts, parents and children with developmental disabilities (Feldenkrais and Anat Baniel instructors Nancy Aberle and Lynn Bullock, and 10 practitioners, over 900 hours of work with children and parents)

2013: “What does the brain need to bring order to chaos?!”
2014: “How does Feldenkrais help children with developmental disabilities?”
2015: “Principles of Somatic Learning”
2016 and 2017: “Vision, Movement Coordination, Learning”
2018: “Paradigm Shift – From Mechanical to Informational Approach in Bodywork”
2019: “Learn to Recognize Differences – and Improve Motor, Sensory, and Cognitive Functioning”

Approach:
With the body, it is the same as with other things and phenomena in nature and in life: everything that is beautifully and harmoniously organized functions well. When the body and movement are well coordinated, they give us a beautiful and fluid feeling, give us security, and increase ability and creativity. This is not so difficult to achieve because all the wisdom is within us, we only need to know how to awaken the inner, not just the external teachers. The overall life experience is manifested through movement, so by observing, questioning, and listening to movements (physical, mental, as well as sensations and feelings) we come to information that can change our lives for the better. I base everything on personal experience because I have experienced it myself and seen it in others, and that is why I am happy when I am able to pass this knowledge on.

I want to encourage people to learn about their nature, and the nature of which we are an integral part, to achieve a more complete understanding of themselves, to come to authentic feelings and authentic expression through movement, whether it is walking, running, bending, reaching and other purposeful everyday functional movements, or in dance and other types of artistic expression. It is about awakening the awareness and wisdom that is innate in us in this sense and understanding our own effectiveness with which we can achieve ease and harmony of movement and shape our own behavior.

The “Bones for Life” program was founded by Ruthy Alon, an Israeli Feldenkrais method trainer. The approach to working with the body and the exercise processes are based on the principles of somatic sensorimotor learning by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. The program can be learned by anyone and then applied daily, for personal needs or in work with others.

“Bones for Life” teaches about the importance and role of the skeletal system in the process of movement, offers exercises/ideas about the conditions necessary to stimulate healthy bone metabolism, and about the correlation between the quality of functioning of this system and human physical and psychological health.