Jana Korb

Jana Korb is a cultural scientist (FU/HU Berlin), artist (HdK Berlin), and circus artist, producing aerial theater and narrative circus. In her artistic and discursive work she is searching for circus as an artistic media, for the circus of the future.
She is the artistic director of Luftartistik Festspiele Berlin (Aerial Arts Festival Berlin), and on the board of directors of the Association for Theater in Public Space (Bundesverband Theater im Öffentlichen Raum). She is co-founder of the circus association Verein zur Überwindung der Schwerkraft and of RAW-Berlin, and an active member of the Magdalena Project (Network of Women in Contemporary Theater). She lives and works within the collective korb+stiefel in Berlin Lichtenberg.