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Jurij Konjar is a dancer, improviser, and choreographer, working in the fields of Improvisation and Contemporary Dance. The teachers who have had the greatest influence on him are Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson. He has worked on stage with En Knap, Les Ballets C de la B, Boris Charmatz, and Steve Paxton. With Paxton, he restaged and toured several of his pieces, and he is currently still touring the Goldberg Variations improvised solo. His correspondence with Paxton regarding the Goldberg research process was published by CQ magazine in a booklet titled The Goldberg Observations, edited by Nelson.
For the past fifteen years, he has been continuously researching, writing about, and teaching improvisation. His improvised performances include Ulysses, Still, For Juliano Mer-Khamis, Monday at Eight (co-directed), Poka (co-directed), Biodegradables, and A Report from Contactfestival Freiburg 2023.
Jurij teaches internationally, drawing on his performance of improvisation and writing practices, The Tuning Scores of Lisa Nelson, Material for the Spine by Steve Paxton, and his practice of Contact Improvisation. He is the creator of the nomadic, shared working space called Habitat.
2025
