Vlada Kremenović (Seattle, WA): Medusa
Dance
Pictured: Vlada Kremenović, photo by Fox Whitney
PERFORMANCE SYNOPSIS
Medusa is an absurdist, sensuous performance where six trans and queer performers inhabit the jellyfish life cycle. Through drifting bodies, immersive media, and original music, scientific allegory dissolves into humor, desire, and vulnerability—offering a tender, political reflection on sexuality, survival, and shared animal life.
BIO
Vlada Kremenović (she/her), aka Sasha Sobbing, is a tran* immigrant artist working in dance, video, performance, and arts administration. Originally from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vlada has been making works in Seattle since 2017. She’s presented physical and virtual performances with her company CommonForm locally, as well as inter/nationally in Oregon, California, British Columbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. Vlada has collaborated with Fox Whitney since 2020 as a performer, video artist, director of photography, and vocalist, including for his upcoming Made in Seattle 2027 project, LOOK/OUT. She was a 2023 Seattle City Artist, and was awarded funding from 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Vlada founded CommonForm in 2019, to present works that are highly engaging, but not entertaining; rigorous, but not technical; political, but not contrived; approachable, but not simplified. Her work draws upon themes from queerness, immigration, nature, architecture, natural sciences, and history to create algorithmic movement installations in pursuit of the collective emergence of truth between performers and audiences through improvisational structures anchored in time and space.
Descending from a long lineage of Bosnian peasants, Vlada’s art rejects the elitism of post-modernism while embracing its capacity for performer/audience autonomy, freedom from colonialist/classicist ideals, and creating containers for radical empathy.
She’s worked with Alice Gosti, Heather Kravas, Jordan Macintosh-Hougham, Noelle Price, Melissa Riker, Karin Stevens, Petra Zanki, and more.
CREDIT
Performer/Creators
Vlada Kremenović – Choreography
Fox Whitney – Music
Jessica Jones – Lights/Projections
Tayler Tucker – Costume Design
Performers: Vlada Kremenović, Tayler Tucker, Lio Sainz-Jones, Will Courtney