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Petra Najman is contemporary circus and interdisciplinary artist from Zagreb, Croatia.

She started her circus path at age of 12 with association Cirkorama with whom she performed in her first circus show as an interpreter :  „Danse Macabre- An attempt of vertical return“.

Ather those years of technical and creative pracitces she decides to continue her professional circus path and goes to France first to circus school Turbul’ where she studies circus pedagogy for children and young people.

Then she enrols in the two-year professional circus program in Piste d’Azur (promotion 2019-2021) in south of France where she specializes static trapeze and after she enrolles in circus school Flic in Turin, Italy where she develops her technical and artistical skills in trapeze as her main discipline.

Professionaly trapeze artist but as well she develops her research in physical theatre and other forms of art such as puppetry, viedo art and literature.

During her professionaly circus education she descovers little traces of her own distorted way of moving and expressing through scenic art and after her education she increasingly focuses on the world of her personal research and creations where she puts her technique in the service of creativity, expression and experimentation of autentical ways of moving on the trapeze.

She is creator of her first and very personal solo show „My Death and me“ where she is combines circus art with puppetry expressing her own vision of mortality and facing with a inevitable death.

Now she is co-authoring her second as well verly personal contemporary circus and multimedia creation „A Crow without a nest“ for witch with her partner Ivan Svaguša she already  published a picture book of the same name.

As well she is performing in other shows such as „Saletes“ with french compagnie L’Attraction and Horror House – Zodiac with association Cirkorama from Zagreb.

Besides the artistic path she also teaches and develops two types of her workshops: technical skills workshops and workshops of creativity and personal movement.

In her artistic approach she likes to put ingredients of darkness, apsurdity, expressionism and grotesque with a distorded qualities of moving.