Jaka Lah

Actor, performer

Projects (9) Photo (71) Video (15) Media responses (56) Text (2)
The Ninth • Taniecpolska PPT 2017
The Ninth Taniecpolska, Varšava
The Ninth • Taniecpolska
The Ninth Taniecpolska, Varšava
Incasso © Messaggero del lunedi, Udine
Incasso Messaggero del lunedi, Udine
Incasso © Il Gazzettino, Mestre
Incasso Il Gazzettino, Mestre
Incasso © Il Piccolo, Trieste
Incasso Il Piccolo, Trieste
More © Vjesnik, Zagreb
More Vjesnik, Zagreb
More © Novi list, Zagreb
More Novi list, Zagreb
More © Jutarnji list, Zagreb
More Jutarnji list, Zagreb
The Ninth • Kritika Teater heute
The Ninth Teater heute
The Ninth • Kritika Leipziger Volkszeitung
The Ninth Leipziger Volkszeitung
The Ninth • Medijski odziv Bild Leipzig
The Ninth Bild, Leipzig
The Ninth • Kritika Dnevnik
The Ninth Dnevnik, Ljubljana
The Ninth • Kritika Radio Študent
The Ninth Radio Študent, Ljubljana
The Ninth • Kritika Fokuspokus
The Ninth Fokuspokus, Ljubljana
Via New Territories Kritika
Via New Territories The Herald, Glasgow
Naked Presence © Düsseldorf ist artig
Naked Presence, Extract Mandić Düsseldorf ist artig
Naked Presence © Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf
Naked Presence Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf
Pure Performance © Dialogi, Maribor
Pure Performance Dialogi, Maribor
Via Nova Museum © Delo, Ljubljana
Via Nova Museum Delo, Ljubljana
Incasso © Radio 101, Zagreb
Incasso Radio 101, Zagreb
More © Il Gazzettino, Mestre
More Il Gazzettino, Mestre
More © la Nuova, Venezia
More la Nuova, Venezia
More © l’Unita, Rim
More l'Unita, Rome
More © il manifesto, Rim
More il manifesto, Rome
More © Delteatro.it
More delteatro.it
Incasso © Delo, Ljubljana
Incasso Delo, Ljubljana
Incasso © Dnevnik, Ljubljana
Incasso Dnevnik, Ljubljana
Incasso © Dnevnik, Ljubljana
Incasso Dnevnik, Ljubljana
Incasso © Blic, Novi Sad
Incasso Blic, Novi Sad
Incasso © Dnevnik, Novi Sad
Incasso Dnevnik, Novi Sad
Incasso © Gradanski list, Novi Sad
Incasso Gradanski list, Novi Sad
More © Il Piccolo, Trieste
More Il Piccolo, Trieste
More © Il Gazzettino, Mestre
More Il Gazzettino, Mestre
More © Messaggero del lunedi, Udine
More Messaggero del lunedi, Udine
Incasso © Osservatorio sui Balcani
Incasso Osservatorio sui Balcani
Incasso © Il Gazzettino, Mestre
Incasso Il Gazzettino, Mestre
Incasso © Gazzetta di Parma
Incasso Gazzetta di Parma
Incasso © Maska, Ljubljana
Incasso Maska, Ljubljana
Incasso © Finance, Ljubljana
Incasso Finance, Ljubljana
Incasso © Deloskop, Ljubljana
Incasso Deloskop, Ljubljana
Incasso © Večer, Maribor
Incasso Večer, Maribor
Incasso © Sodobnost, Ljubljana
Incasso Sodobnost, Ljubljana
Incasso © Delo, Ljubljana
Incasso Nedelo, Ljubljana
Incasso © Delo, Ljubljana
Incasso Delo, Ljubljana
More © Bild, Hamburg
More Bild, Hamburg
More © Hamburger Morgenpost
More Hamburger Morgenpost
More © Segeberger Zeitung
More Segeberger Zeitung
More © Bild, Hamburg
More Bild, Hamburg
More © Die Welt, Hamburg
More Die Welt, Hamburg
More © Hamburger Abendblatt
More Hamburger Abendblatt
More © Taz, Hamburg
More Taz, Hamburg
More © Večer, Maribor
More Večer, Maribor
More © Maska, Ljubljana
More Maska, Ljubljana
More © Delo, Ljubljana
More Delo, Ljubljana
More © Finance, Ljubljana
More Finance, Ljubljana
More © Delo, Ljubljana
More Delo, Ljubljana

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Jaka Lah

Actor, performer

He enrolled at the AGRFT in 1999, having previously studied Sociology of Culture and Slovenian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana. In 2001, he won the Sever Prize; in 2003, the Academy’s Prešeren Prize for performance Everyone sees his own face in solitude. In 2010, he graduated with a Master’s in Drama. His thesis was entitled Art between the premonition of meaning and the metamorphosis of its absence. He started working at the Ljubljana City Theatre straight after graduating and has been collaborating with the Via Negativa platform since the end of his studies. He took part in Tanja Zgonc’s Butoh project Koora, which won the Dance Critics’ Choice Award in 2002. He has appeared in several short films and acted in Vinko Möderndorfer’s feature film Pokrajina št. 2.

Jaka belongs to those theatre actors who keep their acquired academic knowledge at a distance and cannot be satisfied with just one theatre territory (a certain institution, aesthetics, genre…). That is why, in addition to his work as a member of the ensemble of the Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL), he has been fascinated by some dance paradigms (butō) and contemporary performance art. In the Via Negativa projects, he stands out for his subtle, unburdened and highly studied performance, where his “realistic” tendencies push him beyond the narrative axis into absurdly radicalised situations.