The Dunja Jocić Foundation is a fast-rising contemporary dance company led by choreographer, director, and VSCD Swan winner Dunja Jocić. Known for her powerful and emotive physical language and cinematic storytelling, Jocić creates immersive performances that explore the human condition: the politics of perception, our relationship with technology, mortality, and the drive for transformation. Her background in rhythmic gymnastics, film, and ballet gives her a distinctive and compelling choreographic voice.
Jocić has worked with leading companies and artists such as Club Guy & Roni, Hans van Manen, Ballet du Nord, Peter Greenaway, and composer Yannis Kyriakides. Her solo No flowers, please marked the beginning of an expanding international body of work across stage and screen.
Contemporary dance from the Netherlands on the international stage
In recent years, her work has reached a wide audience in the Netherlands, with annual premieres at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and tours to major venues met with enthusiastic audience responses and critical acclaim. Internationally, she is gaining recognition with commissions from Gauthier Dance (Stuttgart), Spellbound Contemporary Ballet (Rome), Stadttheater Braunschweig, Dance Company Osnabrück, and Hessisches Staatsballett (Wiesbaden).
Choreography across disciplines: dance, film, and performance art
Her dance films Mirroring and Bird have received multiple international awards and nominations and continue to screen at festivals worldwide, years after their release. With a sharp instinct for meaningful artistic partnerships, from writer Barbi Marković and actor Ramsey Nasr to composer Michael Gordon and visual artist Filip Mikić, Jocić creates layered works that challenge and expand the boundaries of what dance theatre can be.
Recent pieces such as We, Us and Other Games, Moonfall, and Afternoon of a Nymph show a maker on the rise: bold, uncompromising, and evolving a voice that is deeply personal yet increasingly resonant on an international stage.
Photo: Marinus Groothof