Milka Djordjevich (she/hers) is a choreographer, performer and educator who questions preconceived notions of what dance should or should not be, drawing from a variety of compositional strategies to examine gender in the so-called “neutral” public spaces of theaters, galleries, and museums. Her work has been shown at many venues across the country, including the American Realness Festival, BAMPFA, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, the Hammer Museum, the Kitchen, Machine Project, MAK Center, The Momentary, New York Live Arts, PICA’s TBA Festival, The Philadelphia Thing, REDCAT, Santa Ana Sites and the Whitney Museum, and internationally in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and the UK. Djordjevich was a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award recipient, a 2017-2018 Princeton University Hodder Fellow, a 2006-2007 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2008/2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar. She has had residencies at Abrons Arts Center, ARC Pasadena, Baryshnikov Arts Center, CAP UCLA, Fabrik Potsdam, Jacob's Pillow Lab, LMCC Swingspace, MANCC, PACT-Zollverein and Workspace Brussels, among others. Other projects include serving as guest editor for Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence, initiating the Monday Morning/Night Class series at Pieter and choreographing for film, visual art and theater projects. Djordjevich has also co-authored works with composer Chris Peck, choreographer Dragana Bulut, designer Samuel Yang, and artist Marcos Luytens.
She is currently teaches at UCLA, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) and Body Dada, and has taught at CalArts, Pomona College, Pasadena City College, and University of California at Irvine and Riverside, among others. Djordjevich received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2016, she established STANA, an organization cultivating local, national and international dance connections.