Stefan Jovanović is a queer and neurodivergent storyteller, performance-maker and trauma constellator, creating neo-mythical worlds and speculative fabulations through site-specific and site-adaptive environments. He is Italo-Slavic and currently based in London, UK. He makes work about radical togetherness, systemic inclusion and ancestral trauma through a maximalist aesthetic and approach that combines sculpture, drawing, dance and building. Creating spaces for healing sits at the core of his practice.

In 2019, Stefan’s small-scale production Constellations, premiered at Sadler’s Wells’ Lilian Baylis Theatre, A collaborative work combining dark comedy, social dancing, folklore, sculpture, drag and pop songs. He is currently working on a mid-scale outdoor production-ritual entitled Drumming in the Hall of the Mountain. Originally trained as an architect at the AA School of Architecture, Stefan subsequently qualified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Family Systemic Constellator, incorporating tools of care and facilitation when working in creative collaborative processes, as well as with social and ancestral trauma. His artistic practice sits at the edges of the arts and spirituality, questioning notions of togetherness through mediums that are very physical, spiritual & virtual. He facilitates encounters that allow for difference and the integration of trauma awareness into artistic and cultural experiences.

He was a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist (2015-2018), IdeasCity New Museum Fellow (Athens, 2016) and the recipient of the DanceWEB Scholarship at ImpulsTanz International Dance Festival (2016). He regularly teaches at the AA, Royal College of Art, Independent Dance and London Contemporary Dance School. He often works in the capacity of a dramaturge & outside eye for acclaimed choreographers and dance-artists, including Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Mark Lorimer, Pau Aran Gimeno, Matthias Sperling and Katye Coe.