Prague Quadrennial of stage design and stage space 2019 – Jelena Janković

01 Name of author/applicant:

Jelena Janković

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02 Role/category:

Performing arts photography

03 Project title:

Mount Olympus

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

Mount Olympus is a performance that runs continuously for 24 hours, enabling audience and performers to establish a live, emotional connection with each other. The outside world is blocked out and time plays a major role. The performers are sleeping and waking up on stage, while the audience spends the entire day in the theatre. Long-exposure photographs capture the actors’ portraits in the course of 24 hours, and display their energy and character strength.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Mount Olympus, New York City, USA, 2018; concept, direction and scenography: Jan Fabre; choreography: Jan Fabre and dancers; text: Jeroen Olyslaegers, Jan Fabre; music: Dag Taeldeman; dramaturgy: Miet Martens; production manager: Sebastiaan Peeters; technical director: André Schneider; light: Helmut Van den Meersschaut; sound and video: Tom Buys; technicians: Wout Janssens, Vic Grevendonk, Kevin Deckers; costume design: Kasia Mielczarek; props: Roxane Gire, Alessandra Ferreri

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02 Role/category:

Performing arts photography

03 Project title:

Terra Incognita

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

Terra Incognita is a physical and interdisciplinary duet, based on the short story of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. The photographs were not made with the intention of documenting the moment on stage, but of illustrating the relationship and hallucinations of the two men who together set out on the road. These photographs visualise a production concept.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Terra Incognita, Korzo Theatre, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2017; choreography: Dunja Jocić; dancers: Luca Cacitti, Shay Partush; light design: Pavla Beranova; composition: Hugo Morales

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06 Photography:

Jelena Janković

07 Biography (not exceeding 100 words):

Jelena Janković is an art photographer, specialized in dance and theatre photography. She is actively engaged in documentary, conceptual and experimental photography. Apart from Belgrade, her works have also been exhibited in Moscow, Mexico City, Istanbul, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Siena, Zagreb, etc. She has received a number of prestigious international awards. In her photographs she documented more than forty theatre performances. In 2018, she published her first photo monograph Kolo – 70 Years Later, in which she presented the traditional dance of Serbia through art photography. Her photos have also been published in the following magazines: Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Elle, Vice, LensCulture, Lürzer’s Archive, Kosmos, Geo, etc.