Sabina Vajrača
Director | Writer | Philosopher
Theatre (select works)
The Beauty Project
Full-Length Drama
Ensemble-driven movement theatre piece exploring the connection between violence and beauty throughout the centuries; what beauty represents, how it can destroy those who desire it and how we as a society battle and are seduced by it concurrently.
Created with the company of 10 actors, over 7 years.
Performed at SITI Company
Director/Producer/Creator: Sabina Vajrača
Producer: Ali Hanson
Costume Designers: Amela Baksic, Amel Mujezinovic
CAST:
Ali Hanson
Eric Thorne
Jonathan Green
Julia Granacki
Maria del Puy Navarro
Tsuyoshi Kondo
GRANTS / AWARDS:
Puffin Foundation Grant (2007)
Jerome Foundation — SITI Company Associate Member Grant (2007)
LMCC Swing Space Grant Workshop Performance (2006)
Tricia Brown Dance Company (2002)
Looking Glass Theatre's Hotter Than Hades Development Series (2001)
Svila/Seta/Silk
Full-Length Drama
Adapted for stage by Sabina Vajrača
From the novel by Alessandro Baricco
Told through an eloquent mixture of traditional Japanese dance, modern movement techniques, origami, and puppets, this original adaptation of an Italian novella by Alessandro Baricco, takes us on a journey of discovery, passion and immeasurable pain, as experienced by Hervé Joncour, whose travels from France to Japan in 1860's yield much more than the silkworms he was sent to buy.
“Hervé Joncour bought and sold silkworms for a living.
The year was 1861. Flaubert was writing Salammbo, electric light remained hypothetical, and Abraham Lincoln, beyond the Ocean, was fighting a war of which he was not to see the finish.
Hervé Joncour was thirty-two.
He bought and sold.
Silkworms.
Lavilledieu was the name of the town inhabited by Hervé Joncour.
Hélène was that of his wife.
They had no children.”
Performed at SITI Company
Director/Writer/Producer: Sabina Vajrača
Producer: Ali Hanson
Set Designer: Mikiko Suzuki Macadams
Costume Designer: Camille Assaf
Lighting Designer: Tyler Micoleau
Sound Designer: Mark "MuTTT" Huang
Stage Manager: Kris Diehl
Assistant Director: Katrina Bugaj
Choreographers: Yuko Hamada, Brendan McCall
CAST:
(the entire ensemble played multiple roles)
Hervé Joncour: Jeffrey Frace
Helene Joncour: Ali Hanson
Hara Kei: Tsuyoshi Kondo
Hara Kei’s courtesan: Flora Diaz
Madame Blanche: Ikuko Ikari
All other roles: Amanda Barron, Pete McCain, Saori Tsukada,