Maja Jantar

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Maja Jantar is a voice artist working in the fields of performance, music theatre, poetry and visual arts. She studied Art Sciences and has been giving performances since 1995 (Gent, Antwerp, Vienna, London, Chemnitz, Geneva, Madrid, Brussels etc.).
She has also created many pieces as a voice artist and is an active member of the group Krikri.
She has directed the opera Infinito Nero by Salvatore Sciarrino, La Corona by Gluck, Aap Verslaat de Knekelgeest by Peter Schat, Al Amin Dada by Lucien Goethals on the libretto of Jelle Meander and Bastien en Bastienne by Mozart. She has worked as an assistant to Guy Joosten at the Flemish Opera House in Antwerp and assisted Vincent Boussard at the Royal Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Recently she has been working with the theatre group Crew with whom she performed at the Vooruit (Ghent), Buda (Kortrijk), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), Spielart Festival (Munich), and La Chartreuse (Avignon). She regularly performs with the poet Vincent Tholomé with whom she also gives workshops on the use of language and sound, and with whom she is preparing new material for a CD.
Currently she is collaborating with Ivan Vrambout and Ewout d'Hoore on the creation of "No Time Off for Bad Behaviour" a production by 'Action Malaise' and 'De Kopergieterij'.