Dragana Bulut works as a choreographer, performer, artist and researcher. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of choreography, artistic research, and the social and political dimensions of emotion.
She regards the theater as a public forum: a place of social gathering for critical investigation of the various structures and intersections of aesthetics, economics, and emotions. By transposing established formats, she creates performances rooted in the tension between the material and the immaterial realms, between tangibility and affect, to explore the space between reality and fiction. These social choreographies bring to light the, often, overlooked shifting processes that choreograph our behaviors as a society. She understands choreography not only as an artistic discipline, but as a method of research and a pedagogical practice.
She regards the theater as a public forum: a place of social gathering for critical investigation of the various structures and intersections of aesthetics, economics, and emotions. By transposing established formats, she creates performances rooted in the tension between the material and the immaterial realms, between tangibility and affect, to explore the space between reality and fiction. These social choreographies bring to light the, often, overlooked shifting processes that choreograph our behaviors as a society. She understands choreography not only as an artistic discipline, but as a method of research and a pedagogical practice.
She holds a PhD in Artistic Research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where she developed the research project Social Choreographies of Emotion - a methodological and artistic approach to understanding how affect circulates through bodies, institutions, and social structures. Her trilogy (Happyology – Tears of Joy, Behind Fear, Beyond Love) explores how happiness, fear, and love are choreographed, mobilized, commodified, often through immersive dramaturgies involving audience participation.
Bulut’s work has been presented at venues and festivals such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Black Box Theatre (Oslo), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Gessnerallee (Zürich), InTransit Festival (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Museum Folkwang (Essen), Sophiensaele (Berlin), euro-scene Leipzig, Rampe Theater (Stuttgart), Laban Dance Centre (London), iDANS Festival (Istanbul), Fabrik (Potsdam), Danspace Project (New York), ENPARTS Campus at the Venice Biennale, eXplore Dance Festival (Bucharest), Bitef Festival (Belgrade), Balkan Dance Platform etc. As a performer, she has collaborated with various artists including Tino Sehgal, Meg Stuart, and Ivo Dimchev.
Bulut’s work has been presented at venues and festivals such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Black Box Theatre (Oslo), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Gessnerallee (Zürich), InTransit Festival (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Museum Folkwang (Essen), Sophiensaele (Berlin), euro-scene Leipzig, Rampe Theater (Stuttgart), Laban Dance Centre (London), iDANS Festival (Istanbul), Fabrik (Potsdam), Danspace Project (New York), ENPARTS Campus at the Venice Biennale, eXplore Dance Festival (Bucharest), Bitef Festival (Belgrade), Balkan Dance Platform etc. As a performer, she has collaborated with various artists including Tino Sehgal, Meg Stuart, and Ivo Dimchev.