Creative CV
Tereza Crvenković
https://www.instagram.com/tereza_crvenkovic/
Education
2016
Grad. Dip Creative Writing
The University of Sydney
2006
M.Phil. (Performance Studies) with distinction.
Thesis: “Dancing in Koleda’s Circle: A Performative Analysis of Croat Folk Dance in Australia.”
The University of Sydney
2002
Certified Focusing Trainer
The Focusing Institute, NY, USA
1994
M.A. (Theatre Studies) Coursework and research.
Thesis: “Contemporary Carnival in Croatia: Performance, Representation and Staging.”
University of NSW
1990
Research scholarship: Theatre and Carnival Traditions in Croatia
University of Zagreb
1987
B.A. (Hons) (English Literature)
The University of Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2023
Paradoxes of Paradise, Creative Hybrids Lab
Video installation, “Liminal: A Work in Progress;” projected digital media, “Liminal Series;” printed digital media, “About Average1” and “Somewhere Close to the Other Side.”
Artist, Facilitator, Art Workshop and Panelist
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia.
2020
Live Dreams: Impossible
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, Creative Hybrids Lab co-created work-in-progress, The Remediation Room
Performance Space, Sydney.
Residencies
2024
Accessible Arts and Bundanon Trust Artist-in-Residence Program 2024
Six-night artist residency at Bundanon Trust Estate.
2021
Blast Theory United Kingdom, residency in collaboration with Creative Hybrids Lab.
Presentation of literary work and panellist.
Collaboration
2021 – present
Collaboration with Bosnian artist and Creative Consultant, Andrijana Miler. Improvisation; experimental dance and movement; journaling/storytelling/workshopping for creative development.
2021
Looking Through the Window/A Portrait of Tereza Crvenković
Portrait by Fine Arts Photographer, Greg Semu
Shortlisted in the ROSL photography competition 2021.
On view at ROSL Clubhouse, London 2022 and CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting), Kigali, Rwanda 2022.
Published Work
2025. femLENS Documentary Photography. International Women’s Day Campaign 2025.
Post with story and photography documenting studio collaboration with artist Andrijana Miler.
2023. Pain 21. Ars Medica Vol. 17 No. 2: Frictions of Futurity, Curative Tensions, and Artistic Reimaginings of Transplantation. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, pp. 54-64.
https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/issue/view/43/39
2022. The Other Side. Issue 84 Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts. Akron, Ohio USA pp. 59-61
https://www.udsakron.org/wp-content/uploads/K84-FINAL.pdf
2020. Pink Life. Scars: An Anthology of Microlit. Atherton. C. (ed.) Spineless Wonders.
2018. Letter to My Body. Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. Chicago, Illinois USA.
https://hekint.org/2018/05/22/letter-to-my-body/
2017. Yoga After Stroke. Australian Yoga Life, Issue 57 SEP - NOV 2017. Australian Yoga Life (AYL).
2016. His Long Slender Fingers. Imprint. The University of Sydney Student Anthology 2015. Sydney University Press.
2012. Ljubo and Koleda: Ljubav nas Veže i Spaja
Script writer for film narration, independently produced 50-minute documentary.
2008. Focusing and Writing About Doing the Dance. The FOLIO (Volume 21, Number 1, 2008) TRIBUTE ISSUE. The International Focusing Institute INC [US].
https://focusing.org/sites/default/files/legacy/folio/Vol21No12008/13_FocusingAndWrTRIB.pdf
1997. Rope-soul. Candle in the Dark (ed.) Libby Turnock. Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales. Shoalhaven Group of Amnesty International.
Other Experience
Koleda Croatian Folkloric Ensemble
Dancer, vocalist, dance instructor for over 45 years. 100s of community-based performances Australia-wide, 3 tours of Croatia and Bosnia Hercegovina, regular performances at the Sydney Opera House, 2 studio albums.
1996 - 2004
Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training/Teacher
1999 – 2008
Focusing Trainer