Pia Brezavšček

Pia Brezavšček is the editor-in-chief of Maska, a bilingual journal for contemporary performing arts, based in Ljubljana. She works as a cultural worker in several roles - editor, publicist, critic, theatrologist and dramaturge. She is a philosopher and art historian, a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She was amongst the co-founders of the internet site www.neodvisni.art that focuses on the critical reflection of the local independent performing arts scene, which she was editing between 2019 and 2022. From 2017-2020, she was the president of the Society for Contemporary Dance of Slovenia. She teaches a course Dance, Politics, Sociology at the Dance Academy at Alma Mater Europaea. Her topics of interest are also feminism and contemporary philosophies of the body, on which she has published articles in various publications. As a dramaturge, she participated in the projects of Bare Kolenc, Magdalene Reiter, Snježana Premuš and often collaborates with Saška Rakef.