Andrea Božić is a choreographer and artist based in Amsterdam. Her educational background includes dance, literature, English, film, theatre and media art. In Croatia, she studied modern dance and earned a degree in Comparative Literature and English Language at the University of Zagreb. In the Netherlands, she graduated from the School For New Dance Development and the Amsterdam Master of Choreography (DAS Choreography), both at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam.
Her work is in-disciplinary and site-responsive and takes form of performance, audio-visual installation, gameplay scores and film, often in collaboration with the weather and night sky. The work re-organises attention and space, creating paradoxical situations to ask questions about spectatorship, imagination, perception, the politics of gaze, presentation of reality and the organisation and distribution of authorship. All individual projects are part of larger constellations, both within Andrea's own work and her collaborations with others.
A selection of recent works includes the performances How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), PoroCity and Orange Night, as well as site-responsive audio-visual installations Looking-Glass House, Civil Twilight (Choreography for 450 nm and 600 nm), Zandloper (Hourglass), The Cube and Through the Looking Glasses by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon and the night sky.
Her work has been presented at numerous festivals and venues internationally within the performing and visual arts (Frascati, SPRING, Oerol, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Vooruit, HAU, ImpulsTanz, Reina Sofia Museum, Centre Pompidou Metz, de Appel Arts Centre, a.o.). It was produced by the Frascati Productions from 2003-2012. From 2009-2012, Andrea was artist-in-residence at the International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (ICK).
She has collaborated with visual artist Julia Willms and sound artist Robert Pravda since 2005 with whom she co-founded in-disciplinary platform TILT in 2009, to inspire, produce and support artistic practice and thinking beyond disciplines. For the past few years, Andrea has collaborated closely with performance and theatre maker Billy Mullaney, associate artist at TILT.
With Julia Willms, Andrea has been developing Spectra - Space Is an Organism, a long-term artistic research project into attention and space and how their re-organisation affects one's sense of reality and the modes of spectatorship emerging from it. Spectra incorporates the larger space and the audience's presence in it as part of the work. Spectra has its base at the Spectra | Studio in Marci Panis, Amsterdam and from there it emerges on a pletora of architectural, virtual and imaginary locations. Since 2018, Andea and Julia have curated a series of Spectra Salons, in-disciplinary evenings across performance and visual arts at Spectra Studio and in collaboration with other partners.
Together with Nicole Beutler and Marijke Hoogenboom, Andrea was co-initator and curator of We Live Here: AnAcademy, an artistic exchange platform in Amsterdam. With Nicole Beutler and Keren Levi, she has initiated and curated three editions of the Come Together Festival and is one of the co-founders of BAU - platform for dance and performance Amsterdam.
Since 2012, Andrea is tutor at DAS Theatre and from 2012-2015, she was mentor at DAS Choreography, both MFA programmes at DAS Graduate School, Academy for Theatre and Dance Amsterdam. She was researcher at DAS Research (2016-2018) and a research fellow at THIRD 2019-2022. Andrea has collaborated with many artists, most notably with Ivana Muller, and presents her work frequently at conferences and symposia. She publishes texts about her work and gives workshops and labs internationally (Royal Academy of Art The Hague, ArteZ Master of Theatre Practices, SPRING Academy, DAS Theatre, Banff Arts Centre, Zagreb Dance Centre, a.o.).