Jana Perkovic Jana Perkovic i(7882950 works by)
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 2005
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1 The Anti-institutional Wisdom of APHIDS’ Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor Jana Perkovic , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6-12 July 2024;

'It’s a wintry Tuesday night in Melbourne – dark, damp – but Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor, co-artistic directors of APHIDS, are out and about. It’s a busy time: both currently have works on in the Rising festival, including an all-night performance called 8/8/8/: REST, the second part in a trilogy about the eight-hour work day. Lara Thoms, who is dramaturge on this production, is running late.' (Introduction)

1 The Critic in the Episode 'The Master's House' Jana Perkovic , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December no. 44 2019; (p. 23, 25-27)

'Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen were thanking the volunteers for showing up in unexpectedly large numbers: forty workshop participants, they said, would give them a great opportunity to test some scenes they could only have imagined on their own. !ey were already standing in a circle in Dancehouse; gently, out of a bag emerged objects, passed around one by one: an apple, a fan, a banana, a straw hat. !e pace picked up, soon exceeding what two hands can hold. !e objects were now coming from both directions at once - participants holding three, four apples each - vaguely guilty of causing bo and lenecks in this human chain.'  (Publication abstract)

 

1 The Critic in the Episode 'Mother Country' Jana Perkovic , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 42 2019; (p. 11-15)
'“In the 1960s and ’70s I grew up on a sheep farm in north-eastern Victoria,” said choreographer Rosalind Crisp in a very plain voice, somewhere at the start of her lecture-performance DIRtywork. Crisp had spent more than a decade dancing and choreographing in France; she only returned a few years ago. She continued, “My parents, my three siblings, myself and our dogs and cats ate sheep nearly every day.”'

 (Introduction)

1 Hannah Gadsby’s Follow-up to Nanette Is an Act of Considered Self-care Jana Perkovic , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 March 2019;

'Hannah Gadsby’s new show, Douglas, is not earth-shattering the way Nanette was; but then, nothing could be.'  (Introduction)

1 The Critic in the Episode '#metoo' Jana Perkovic , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 39 2018; (p. 17-21)
1 The Critic in the Episode 'Freedom' Jana Perkovic , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December vol. 36 no. 2017; (p. 15-18)

'At a certain point in life, it becomes very hard to work in theatre and remain impartial to aesthetics. The Critic watched Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at the Malthouse feeling very personally aggrieved by its failures. Janice Mueller’s direction drew deliberately and consciously from the arsenal of directorial gestures that were specific to central and northern-western European postdramatic theatre between 2000 and 2007, to the point where it could have been a painstaking historical reproduction, had it been intentionally referenced.' (Introduction)

1 The Critic in the Episode 'the Nation State' Jana Perkovic , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September vol. 35 no. 2017; (p. 17-21)

1.in which we doubt former certainties "I was listening to a program on oral poetry, on Radio National," said Liz, one morning over breakfast. "You know what they said about Australia? They said that there is one classic genre of poetry missing from the Australian tradition, and it's love poetry.' (Introduction) 

1 The Critic in the Episode 'Guilt' Jana Perkovic , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 31 2016; (p. 5-7) The Best of The Lifted Brow Volume Two 2017;
' "I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don't want my body anymore. I was terrified of it, I didn't know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it. I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else. On that morning, all that I was told was that I had been found behind a dumpster, potentially penetrated by a stranger, and that I should get retested for HIV because results don't always show up immediately. But for now, I should go home and get back to my normal life. Imagine stepping back into the world with only that information."' (Publication abstract)
1 The Critic in the Episode 'Tony Abbott' Jana Perkovic , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , November no. 28 2015; (p. 8-11)
1 The Critic Jana Perkovic , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 26 2015; (p. 8-11)
1 The Critic Jana Perkovic , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , March no. 25 2015; (p. 11-13)
1 Performance : The Critic Jana Perkovic , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , April no. 22 2014; (p. 34-37) The Lifted Brow , September/October no. 24 2014; (p. 42-43)
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