Education
MSc in Urban Studies
September 2008 – September 2009
University College London, University of London
BA in Sociology (Upper 2:1)
October 2005 – July 2008
Goldsmiths College, University of London
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Skills
event production
project management
art direction
immersive theater
physical theater
circus cabaret
site-specific theater
writing/ reviewing shows
creative strategy/PR
content creation
Selected Performances
2020
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Awakening, performance with cellist Georgy Gusev, Ruspoli Residence, Yucca Valley
2019
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Living Art immersive performance as part of I am the Night premiere, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles
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2018
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Eye Dream TV Installation and Performance, Bombay Beach Biennale, Salton Sea
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2017
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Little Cinema Immersive Performance as part of The Alienist Premiere, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles
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Eye Dream TV, Desert Interview Performance, Desert Daze, Joshua Tree
As part of Pussy Power House Group Show
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Eye Dream TV, Red Carpet Installation, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles
As part of Pussy Power House Group Show.
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Hold to Your Moon, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles
As part of group show Cannabis Cabaret.
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Hold to Your Moon, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa
Immersive installation where guests sit by the moon and have their dreams recorded on a portable cassette player.
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My Family Before Me, 18th Street Art Gallery, Santa Monica
Video performance as part of group exhibition with Milenko and Delia Prvacki: A Home Anywhere.
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2016
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Imagined Elasticities, Automata Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Curated an evening of experimental music, avant-garde cabaret and performance art
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University of Pittsburgh, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pennsylvania
My Family Before Me video performance at Pittsburgh University conference Family Ties, Kinship and Power in Film and Media
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Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, California
Fish Tanks as part of SOLO DOLO 6
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The New York Poetry Festival, Governors Island, New York
Fish Tanks collaboration with artist Ariel Kleinberg
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Psychlotron March 12th, 325 W 37th Street, New York
Mia and her amazing unicorn performance as part of a performance showcase curated by John Downing Bonafede
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Berlin, Incarnata Social Club, 25 Avenue A, New York
Solo Performance Deconstructions as part of a performance showcase led by Kembra Pfahler and Orlando Estrada
Panoply Performance Laboratory PPL, Performancy Forum: Entrapment, trappings, vermin and rapture, 104 Meserole St, Brooklyn, New York
Solo shadow dance, physical theatre, and monologue performance as part of a performancy forum
Glasshouse Plays of Domesticity, 246 Union Av. Brooklyn, New York
Experimental solo performance in a bathtub entitled Cockroach
2015
Pioneer Works, Performance Art 101 Showcase, 159 Pioneer Street, New York
Collaboration with Kembra Pfahler and 11 other interdisciplinary artists as a finale of a 6-week workshop at Pioneer Works
Jimmy's no.43 Backroom, Vala, 43 E 7th Street, New York
Collaboration with artists Ariel Kleinberg and Andrea Clinton
Salem Art Works, Residents Exhibition, 19 Cary Ln, Salem, New York
Displayed a collection of poetry alongside a video projection entitled
My Family Before Me. The poems along with the video projection focused on self-discovery through collective family memory
Gólya Presszó, INSITU Community Based Site-Specific Performances exploring Gentrification, Budapest
Creation of site-specific performances in collaboration with 18 actors, performers, directors, writers, and visual artists from France, Ireland, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, and Serbia
Greenhouse Berlin, THE SHELLS, Ausflug nach Neu-Friedenwald, Berlin
Devising and performing in an immersive theatre show led by Kirsten Brandt and Jos Porath inspired by David Lynch’s TV-drama Twin Peaks
2013/ 2014
Klub Komediowy, Mozg w Kominie, Warsaw
Improvised theatre performance as part of Mozg w Kominie collective upon the opening of the first ever Comedy Club in Poland - Klub Komediowy
CHLODNA 25, Teatr Improwizowany Mozg w Kominie, Warsaw
Performed in Chlodna 25 throughout 2014 as part of improvised theatre collective Mozg w Kominie. The group collectively
performed in numerous art venues around Warsaw including Wola Museum and Resort)and in 2014 Mozg w Kominie raised a significant amount of money in support of the first ever Comedy Club in Warsaw called Klub Komediowy which opened in January 2014.
Café Karma, LondyÅ„ski Kabaret Chalk Dust, Warsaw
Curated an avant-garde cabaret evening bringing London performers to Warsaw for one night only. Performed Lonely Fly as part of Chalk Dust Cabaret Showcase.
Café Karma, Wieczór poetycko-muzyczny na rzecz ofiar powodzi na BaÅ‚kanach
Warsaw
Curated a poetry reading/ spoken word fundraiser in support of the 2014 floods in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia
2013
Noakowskiego 26, Bad Brains Fundraiser, Warsaw, Poland
Individual Spoken Word & Poetry Presentation as part of Bad Brains Fundraiser, an event I curated myself bringing Elephant Poetry collective from London to Warsaw in order to raise money for National Brain Appeal UK
Centrum Sztuki Fort Sokolnickiego, Whispering with Giants, Warsaw
Curated a successful art show by Predrag Debevec
2012
THE. & CO.,Hackney Arts Studio, London
Film featured in Streaming Festival 2012
Acting and performing in Elsa Philippe's film The. & Co., a surreal short art film about consumer society, mass production and greed
BANG! SAID THE GUN STAND UP POETRY, London
Solo Poetry reading
Royal Vauxhall Tavern: Duckie, London
Solo Performance Lone Rider
The Roundhouse, London, UK
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Co-founded Chalk Dust Cabaret Collective, an ensemble of surreal Cabaret artists and performers based in London
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Co-founded Morning Doors, A spoken word collective of writers that formed as part of Young Artists Collective at the Roundhouse, London
Plaza Alpujarra, Theatre, in site-specific as a tool to work with and for Young people from rural environment: Orgiva, Spain
Street performance as part of Inter Rural Art residency organized by European Commission
2011
Camp Bestival, Marisa Carnesky’s Tarotdrome; Carnesky Productions, Isle of White, UK
Performing and devising character play in an interactive site-specific theatre performance directed by Marisa Carnesky
Glastonbury Festival, Cabaret Tent, Somerset, UK
Solo Performance Lone Rider and Dali’s Eye
Konak Square, Theatre as a tool for Intercultural Dialogue, Izmir, Turkey
Street performance in collaboration with eleven artists from Poland, France, UK, and France, organized by European Commission
The Roundhouse, London
Individual Spoken Word & Poetry Presentation as part of Polar Bear’s Poetry Collective Showcase
THE OLD POLICE STATION IN DEPTFORD, London
Solo Performance Cold Mollusc as part of Ta Na Christmas Cabaret
HOLLOWAY ARTS FESTIVAL, London
Solo Performance The Lone Rider
ISLINGTON EXHIBITS, London
Dali’s Eye
The Roundhouse, Marisa Carnesky’s Finishing School: Pandemonium, London
Solo Performance, Lone Rider
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Publications
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Tao Ruspoli: Prince of the Beach, by Sara Debevec, Art Confidential Magazine, August 2021 (p34)
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Alexa Meade: Normal Rules Don't Apply: From Shadows to NFTs, by Sara Debevec, Art Confidential, August 2021 (p75)
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Olivia Steele: Neon Fire, by Sara Debevec, Art Confidential, August 2021 (p 109)
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Jennifer Rodriguez Rises to the Top and Gives Back to Her Community Along the Way, by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, September 2021
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How have Los Angeles Dance Companies Pivoted During The Pandemic? by Sara Debevec, Spot LA May 2021
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Little Cinema: From The House of Yes to the Digital Red Carpet (Origin Stories) by Sara Debevec, No Proscenium, March 2021
Blues Guitarist and Singer Kira Lingman Finds Her Groove by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2021
Fourth-generation El Segundo Resident George Renfro Embraces a Digital Future by Sara Debevec, February 2021
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Longtime Pilot Raegina Steinmetz Shares Her Adventures in Aviation by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, October 2020
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Environmental Activist Katja Müller Encourages the Use of Sustainably Sourced Materials Through Her Art by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2020
Manhattan Beach's Katsumi Kasai Splices Japanese Technique and American Individuality by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2020
The trio Behind Hermosa's Studio 637 Channels Good Vibes with a One-Stop Shop for Video, Music and Livestreaming by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, July 2019
Manhattan Beach's Adrien Durban Seeks Out Stories in Vintage European Cars...and Shepherds Them Back Home, Southbay Magazine, July 2019
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California’s iconic surf culture shakes hands with the South Bay’s evolving art scene at Jon Mangiagli’s surf factory by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2019
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ShockBoxx gallery draws inspired crowds to Hermosa Beach’s thriving industrial arts district by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2019
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Hermosa artist Drica Lobo grows her collector base through high frequencies, colorful waves and multilayered moons by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2019
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Orhan Taner shares his vision for arts, culture and inclusion by Sara Debevec, Southbay Magazine, February 2019
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Sara Debevec on P Project, Riting LA Blog, March 18, 2017.
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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet continues three-year residenct at VPAC and we talk to Cherice Barton on her world premiere of Eudaemonia and the universal quest for happiness, Spot LA Blog, March 3, 2017.
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Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project at The Ace Hotel Theater, Spot LA Blog, December 15, 2016.
Lucinda Childs, A Portrait (1963-2016), Spot LA Blog, November 25, 2016.
Bodytraffic at The Broad, Spot LA Blog, November 3, 2016.
Dance Performances Culminate Month-Long Recognition of Forsythe’s Work by The Music Center, USC Kaufman School of Dance and LACMA, Spot LA Blog, October 27, 2016.
California State University, Long Beach – College of the Arts & the Department of Dance, Spot LA Blog, October 19, 2016.
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Relapse:Identity, 2016
Bad Brains,Antlers Press, 2013
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Whispering with the landscapes- Elisabeth Beltsoe, Kathleen Jamie and Robin Robertson, The Southbank Centre Poetry International Blog, November 9 2010
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Elaine Feinstein, Sylvia Fischerova, Tomaz Salamun & Kristina Ehin: Poetry From The New Europe, The Southbank Centre Poetry International Blog, November 5 2010
Moniza Alvi, Katia Kapovich, Joan Margarit & Andrew Motion: Arvon Foundation Gala Reading, The Southbank Centre Poetry International Blog, November 8 2008
Lost in Translation: Reflections on ‘Zbigniew Herbert: Between Two Worlds Al Alvarez, Eva Hoffman and Nick Laird’, The Southbank Centre Poetry International Blog, October 31 2008
Impressions from the William Blake Garden,The Southbank Centre Poetry International Blog, October 27 2008
Residencies
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PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, October 2017
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Bombay Beach Biennale, Salton Sea, March 2018
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Desert Daze, Joshua Tree, November 2018
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PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, October 2017
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Salem Art Works, New York, Summer 2015
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Youth in Action, INSITU Site Specific Performances exploring District 8 Gentrification, Gólya Presszó, Budapest, Hungary, Spring 2015
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Youth in Action, Inter Rural Art : Theatre, in site specific as tool to work with and for Young people from rural environment: Orgiva, Spain, Autumn 2012
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Youth in Action, Theatre as a Tool for Intercultural Dialogue: Izmir, Turkey, Spring 2011
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The Roundhouse London, Young Creatives Residency, UK, Dec 2011-Dec 2012
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Southbank Center, London; Writers Residency 2008- 2010
Teaching
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Creative Dramatics, Kids On Stage, Santa Monica 2016/2017
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Circus Cabaret, NoHo Senior Arts Colony, LA, Spring 2017
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Writing and Spoken Word, The British School, Warsaw, Summer 2013
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Performance Art and Theatre, Lazarski University, Warsaw 2012
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Languages
Fluent:
English
Serbian
Polish
Intermediate:
French
2010 - present
2010 - present