Maja Jantar
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Maja Jantar is a multilingual and polysonic voice artist living in Ghent, Belgium, whose work spans the fields of performance, music theatre, poetry and visual arts. A co-founder of the group , she has been giving individual and collaborative performances throughout Europe and experimenting with poetic sound works since 1995.
Jantar often collaborates with the theatre company Crew, a group operating on the border between art and science, performance and new technology, as well as with actor and director . She regularly performs with Belgian poet , with whom she has also given workshops on the use of language and sound. Recently, she performed with Vincent Tholomé and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris for the .
From 2001 to present, Jantar has directed ten operas, including Monteverdi's classic and Sciarrino's contemporary . Some of her visual poetry has appeared in various publications, amongst others Zieteratuur (The Netherlands), and her visual work has been shown in several exhibits, recently an ink-and-paper selection from her "Lilith" series could be seen at (Germany). In the near future she will continue collaborating extensively with Canadian poet and interdisciplinarian and she will soon be publishing a CD and art book of her visual and audio work with in Berlin.
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- Belgian women musicians
- 21st-century Belgian musicians
- 20th-century Belgian musicians
- 20th-century women musicians
- 21st-century women musicians