Zuhause INVITES: Burja Podlesnik

We are very excited tot announce the maker of the first Zuhause INTIVES edition: Burja Podlesnik

During this evening, her new work: Two man in Underwear will have it's Dutch premiere.

A tender wrestling match between two performers, the piece explores the tension between our deep need for vulnerability and the walls we build to protect ourselves. Through subtle lifst, falls and entangled bodies, the performers move along the thin line between pain and pleasure, love and resistance.

By questioning traditional ideas of masculinity, the work invites us to see strength not as the absence of vulnerability, but als the courgar to embrace it.

Workshop with Burja at Zuhause – Sunday, April 5

Burja will also host two workshops at Zuhause on Sunday, April 5:

11:00 – 13:00
Professionals — Admission fee: €20

14:00 – 15:30
Open Level — Admission fee: €15

✨ A discount is available for people who attend both the performance and the workshop.

More information is available via the ticket button.

Burja Podlesnik (2001) is a Slovenian dancer and choreographer based in the Netherlands. After her dance education at the contemporary dance grammar school SVŠGUGL Ljubljana, she continued her studies in Sweden at the NEFCD program (New Education for Contemporary Dance) and in 2025 graduated with a Bachelor of Dance degree from ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands. Burja was part of IlDance's youth company IlYoung, where she worked with the choreographer Israel Aloni. She performed the work "Addio Unplugged" by ICK Amsterdam and worked with choreographers such as Mari Carrasco, Miguel Altunage Verdicie, and Caroline Finn. Burja received the Best Dancer Award at the OPUS 1 International Festival of Young Dance Creators in 2019 for her solo "Med borovjem temnim" (Among the Dark Pine Trees) and during her bachelor studies delved into choreography with the solo "Snippet", group work "Leftovers", and the duets "In My Room" and "On the Mat". By critically responding to current reality, Burja seeks to reconfigure the space given to things that have no space and voice things that otherwise remain silent.