Her practice is informed by contemporary dance, contemporary circus, improvisation, partnering, meditation, use of objects and Shibari techniques. She has a big focus on how to relate the body to either other bodies or other objects, structures and floors. She likes to create physically challenging situations, in order to see how the body is dealing with it. A big  interest is the encounter and communication between two or more bodies, which is manifested in Maja’s work with the help of a wide variety of techniques, perspectives and approaches like contemporary partnering, couple dance and partner acrobatics.

In her work Maja is questioning (traditional) gender roles in which we are socialized and investigating this influence on our bodies. In 2021 she received the BMKÖS Startstipendium for her research on gender roles and gender clichés in partnering and partner acrobatics. Moreover she is working with the topics of responsibility, trust and the role of the audience in a performance context. For her research “Stand.Punkte” together with Nina Dafert about the relation between physicality in communication and communication in physicality she received the Arbeitsstipendium from BMKÖS for the year 2024. 

Maja (born 1988) studied classical and contemporary dance at Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität and Dance pedagogy/Movement Studies at Institute of Dance Arts – Anton Bruckner University Linz. Since 2012 she has been working as a freelance artist in the dance and performance art and since 2017 within the realm of contemporary circus as well.

In the course of her career Maja has worked among others with KreativKultur, Theater Ansicht, Tanztheater Homunculus, Töchter der Kunst, tanz.coop, tauschfühlung and Momomento, as well as with Spielraum Ensemble, Follow the Rabbit, Planetenparty Prinzip, Theater Feuerblau, theater t’eig, Salzburger Festspiele and Burgtheater Wien.