Ivana Marijančić
Born 1968 in Vukovar, lives in Zagreb from 1969.
After many years of educational trainings and leading groups and workshops, in 2002 she got official title of drama pedagogue inside of regulations of Croatian Centre of Drama Education approved by an expert commission made of experienced drama teachers and pedagogues: Zvjezdana Ladika, Vlado Krusic, Berislav Frkic, Ines Skuflic Horvat i Iva Gruic.
In 2011 she got official title of drama pedagogue-mentor.
Special interests in her work is creativity in educational group work and drama in education.
She was trained by Croatian drama artists and teachers: Goran Golovko, Vlado Krusic, Simona Dimitrov Palatinus, Tanja Kirhmajer, Marija Kohn, Zeljko Vukmirica, Damir Miholic, Zeljko Jancic, Linda Prugo, Irena Krcelic,
and by world experts: Andrej i Janez Vajavec (Slovenija), Jelena Sitar Cvetko (Slovenija), Sead Dulic (BiH), Emsa Lakovic (BiH), Vlado Kerosevic (BiH), Ferid Karajica (Serbia), Kethleen Ann Thomason (USA), Marcos Martinez (USA), Marco Luly (Italy), Julian Boal (Brasil), Augusto Boal (Brasil), Zygmunt Molik (Poland), Gardi Hutter (Switzerland), Luc Opdebeeck (Netherlands), Ronald Matthijssen (Netherlands), David Zinder (Israel), Catherine Albers (USA), Ted Pugh (USA), Fern Sloan (USA), Jobst Langhans (Germany), Christina Mouratidou (Greece), Till Bauman (Germany), Jordi Forcadas (Spain), Allan Owens (England), Adrian Jackson (England), Roberto Mazzini (Italy), Tom Oskar (Australia), Muriel Naessans (France), Chen Alon (Israel), Pascal Guyot (France), Sanjoy Ganguly (India), Jurij Alschitz (Russia), Christine Schmalor (Germany), Barbara Santos (Brasil), Jim Madden (England), Carli Jefferson (England), Lisa Keast (England), Jennifer Woodburne (England), Zane Stanley (England), Ana Mendes (England), Claire Dowie (England), Roni Valk (Brasil), Geo Britto (Brasil), Claudete Félix (Brasil), Cachalotte Mattos (Brasil), Judith Ackroyd (England), Brendon Burns (England), Gyorgy Vidovszky (Hungary), Alexander Fedorov (Russia), Douglas Estevam (Brasil), Javier Pastor (Spain), Andy Eninger (USA), Uri Noy Meire (Israel), Anna Carla Bosco (Italy), Antonio Vulpio (Italy), Marzia Maccarini (Italy), Irene Salza (Italy), Inbal Lori (Israel), Domeka Parker (USA).
Besides in Croatia, she attended educational trainings in Alternative Academy in Mostaru (BiH), in Associacio Teatral in Barcelona, u Internationales Theaterzentrum in Berlin, London Drama School Star Tek in London, in Polanentheater in Amsterdam.
Experience of leading drama groups, working experience:
1998 - 1999
- in Dubrovnik, with Slaven Tolj who is visual artist, performer, establisher and leader of Art CLub Lazareti in Dubrovnik - worked like a drama pedagogue with youth and students
2001 - 2003
- in Zagreb, in parish St Peter - worked like a drama pedagogue with 9-10 years old children, led public classes for children and parents and made plays with children
2002 - 2003
- in Zagreb, drama group of adult singers, inside big choir, directed madrigal comedy
2002 - 2003
- in SOS Children's village Lekenik (south from Zagreb), worked like a drama pedagogue with 9-11 years old children, led public classes for children and parents and made plays with children
2002 - 2004
- in Zagreb, in Culture Centre Pescenica, worked like a drama pedagogue with children and youth, made plays with children and youth in cultural events
2003 - 2008
- in Virovitica (town in east part of Croatia), leader of drama studio department in City Theatre, led groups of children and youth, led public classes for children and parents and made plays with children
2005 - 2009
- in Zagreb's Youth Theatre, worked like a drama pedagogue with children and youth, led public classes for children and parents and made plays with children
2009 - 2010
- in Zagreb, in Private School for Management, worked like a drama pedagogue with children and youth, led public classes for children and parents, also worked with students and led public classes with students and their audience
2002 - and still now
- in Zagreb, in Private School "Creative development" work like a drama pedagogue with 6-10 years old children, led public classes for children and parents and made plays with children
2006 - and still now
- in Zagreb, inside Art Organization Studio Kubus where developed program of series educational workshops and till now led over 150 workshops for all kind professionals connected to Croatian educational system (participants were kindergarten teachers, primary and secondary teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, special teachers, coachers, volunteers, students, etc.); the goal of all workshops is how to integrate drama games and exercises in learning, work in classes, and use in activism of young people
2010 - and still now
- in Zagreb, leading workshops with groups of adults for School of Quality Learning Logos inside of their two programs: School of Rhetoric and Communication Skills, also lead Creative Motivational Workshops with children
2009 - and still now
- in Zagreb, workshop leader-assistant in University of applied sciences in Tourism Department, leading communicational exercises with students of Animation in Tourism and Tourist Guides
2009 - and still now
- lead educational drama pedagogy workshops in each Croatian County in different towns, for Governmental Agency for Educations with kindergarten teachers, primary and secondary teachers, pedagogues, psychologists with goal to integrate drama in process of learning in schools
Previous engagements when I was assistant or leader of projects, or workshop leader:
- international project "Open your eyes" - it was exchanging of youth groups and their drama teachers between Croatian Centre for Drama Education, Centre of Drama Education Mostar -Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a Drama School from Denmark
- Peace Centre Okucani (town in east part of Croatia) - Youth Peace Camp - few years project for youth from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina- International Student Theatre Festival, Zagreb
- "For safe and encouragement environment in schools", educational workshops for teachers in lot of Croatian schools, project made by Croatian Centre for Drama Education and UNICEF
- "Power of Dialogue", international project made by "Formaat" from Rotterdam and Croatian Centre for Drama Education, educational workshops in Croatia, Serbia and Moldavia, learning methods invented by Augusto Boal and making manual for all practitioners who want to use participative drama
- "For Prisoners", workshops of Forum Theatre in Croatian prisons, few years project made by Croatian Helsinki Committee
- International Theatre Festival in Pula dedicated to methods of Augusto Boal, Istrian National Theatre Pula, every year in June
- "My rights - respect others, my responsibility" and "Zero-zero is the law", projects made by NGO "Sunflower", workshops for children in lot of Zagreb's schools with topic - non-violence
- in Serbia, Belgrade, International Theatre Festival BITEF, department BITEF-Polyphony is drama pedagogy department
- "Forum Theatre for children and parents against physical punishment children" - project made by organization - Our Children Association
- "Learning together, growing up together" - national project inside of international project "Drama tools like a way to encourage inclusion of Roma pupils in primary schools" - serial of different educational trainings of teachers, pedagogues, psychologists
- international project "PartART" - Partgicipative Art like a method in active citizenship, meetings and trainings of educators with a goal to exchanging and combining participative methods in education; educators were from Italy, Germany, Netherland, Spain, Slovenia and Croatia.
In last eight years led over 60 Forum Theatre workshops for different governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Half of them had a goal to introducing, training and multiplying Forum Theatre to adult educators, and half of them had a goal to search end present in public problems of specific groups.
Performances:
- After playing in theatre plays in her young age and in student groups, last few years performed and directed several street performances for International Street Festival in Zagreb - "Cest is d best": Singers of Flower Square, Emotional Box, Poetry Box, Joke Box.
- Also performed in a singing role in Zagreb's professional Theatre "ETC" in two political theatre plays "Green, Green" and "Book of the Dead's".
- Performed Croatian Ethno Ballads with our professional ethno singer who collected Croatian old murder ballads and put them in theatre play
- Inside project: Boat Bookstore Boat of Culture, made street performance Poetry box and led workshops of Team writing on a tour along the Croatian coast