Non Aligned Movements / Archiving and historicizing of contemporary dance in the Balkans Residency

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Non Aligned Movements / Research-Archiving Residency

Archiving and historicizing of contemporary dance in the Balkans

May 5 – 9, 2023, Skopje

@ Youth Cultural Center

Archiving and historicizing of contemporary dance in the Western Balkans has been one of the activities of Nomad Dance Academy in the last decade. The Non Aligned Movements archivists reside in Skopje (North Macedonia) from 5th until 9th of May 2023.

Hosted by Lokomotiva, MKD. The working team is busy with the development of the digital dance database in construction and an exhibition (A)RESISTING DANCE AND ITS BODIES – Aspects of Dance as Culture and Art in the Socialist Yugoslavia and After (working title) with a corresponding publication in a curatorial and editorial process (all out in November 2024). Their next working residency is planned in Belgrade in December 2023.

Exhibition „Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia“at Gallery MC in New York

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„Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia“

– Exhibition –

Curators: Slavcho Dimitrov and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

@Gallery MC (549 West 52nd Street, 8th Floor (Between 10th and 11th Avenue), New York

Opening: 5^th of May, 20.00 h.

as part of the program of 30 years of the Republic of North Macedonia in the United Nations and 30 years of the OSCE-UN framework agreement, 03 – 05 May 2023

Organizers: Coalition MARGINS Skopje, LGBTI Support Center, and Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Arts and Culture

Production team: Emilija Chochkova and Ljubomir Faizov

Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia

Second dance performance of “I Need A New Body” at the Dancing Hall, MKC

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Choreographed bodies programme/ MOT+

Second dance performance of

“I Need a New Body”

21.04.2023, 19:00 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

Tikets here

Concept and choreography: Viktorija Ilioska in conversation with Nastya Dzyuban and Laura Stellacci

Performance: Viktorija Ilioska and Nastya Dzyuban

Voices: Amélie Haller and Maren Küpper

How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene? – performing arts scene meetings in Skopje

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How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene?

ONDA meeting local performing arts scene

20.04 – 23.04.2023

@ MKC, Skopje

Lokomotiva in collaboration with ONDA, as part of its interdisciplinary program, with the aim to encounter the Macedonian contemporary performing arts scene with 25 curators from diverse theatres and festivals in France, is organizing and curating from 20-23 of April, 2023 in Skopje a program that includes performances, artists talks, discussions and meetings.

The French curators will have an opportunity to meet with the artists and talk about the actual performances, processes of development of the ideas, as well as with the larger scene on topics related to the working conditions, policies and politics in which they operate locally and internationally, how are the spaces for performing arts organized, production facilities, distribution of the performances in the country and internationally. Lokomotiva will also raise the issue of whether we need an institution on contemporary performing arts?

20 years of LOKOMOTIVA

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It’s been 20 years of coexistence of the community called Lokomotiva which was, not so peacefully, steering and sailing through our macadams… but still, if we look back to some point in 2003, we see a path, a very colorful one, full of sound, filled with lots of art, breaking lances, different crosswinds, more art, conversations, laughter, research, various challenges, struggles, victories, many lessons learned, communities created, spaces and changes we wanted…

A long journey is yet ahead of us, but this year, we will take a little break to say thank you to all of us who see ourselves as part of that coexistence, as collaborators, as audience and as friends, as those without whom Lokomotiva would never have been possible.

We want to dedicate this year to what that coexistence was based on for the past 20 years, i.e. to what makes Lokomotiva what it is – the collaborations here, in the region and beyond, research in art and cultural policies, commitment to the production and presentation of contemporary art , advocating for the needs of artists and cultural workers, creating new thinking spaces and discursive perspectives, new pedagogies and methods of how we learn together, how we build the community through solidarity and spaces where we create and coexist…

Thanks to Ana Jovanovska who is behind the design of this jubilee.

Collaboration LOKOMOTIVA – PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON

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Collaboration LOKOMOTIVA – PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON

February 09-14, 2023

@Lokomotiva Skopje

During five days, from 9-14 of February, Maricruz Peñaloza, a curator from the PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2023 in Zurich (https://performancereihe.com) visited Skopje and Lokomotiva, since she invited Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski to co-curate the 14^th edition of the festival. They met artists from the country, as well as cultural workers that will be presented on the festival that will be held in Zurich in September, 2023.

ACT: Art Climate Transition / OPEN Call-out for ACT Symposium

Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) partnership

28th/29th June 2023 Artsadmin

Deadline: 13 February, 2023

On the 28th/29th June 2023 Artsadmin and Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) will be co-hosting an international symposium exploring the intersections between contemporary performance, democratic participation, & environmental justice. This two-day symposium will be based at Toynbee Studios in London and sits alongside What Shall We Build Here festival.

Check out the information on the open call for the ACT Symposium organised by our partner Artsadmin:

https://artclimatetransition.eu/2023/01/18/open-call-out-act-symposium/

Lokomotiva at the GPS/Global Practice Sharing partner’s yearly meeting and events in New York

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GPS/Global Practice Sharing yearly meeting/ Cooperation between Cultural Workers and Artists from the USA and East and Central Europe

January 12-13, 2023

@ Movement Research, New York, USA

Biljana Tanurovska — Kjulavkovski as a representative from Lokomotiva, on the 12th and 13th of January attended GPS/Global Practice Sharing yearly meeting and program GPS Chats at the Movement Research’s Courtyard Studio in New York.

Open Call for Applications for the programme Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Open Call for Applications

Deadline: January 20, 2023

Mentors of the programme: Ana Vujanović, Marijana Cvetković and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

More about the programme at criticalpractice-madeinyu.dancestation.org/about

This edition of the programme is part of the apap – Feminist Futures project that addresses inequality in the contemporary performing arts field, using the body of thought consolidated by the term Intersectional Feminism to find concrete structural answers and raise public awareness. Through its Feminist Futures Festivals, Feminist school and other programmes it will offer the participants of the Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia) a space for learning, producing and collaborating.

(Non)Aligned Movements network meeting in Belgrade, Serbia

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(Non) Aligned Movements / Network meetings

November 12^th-16^th, 2022

@ Stanica- Service for Contemporary Dance, Belgrade, Serbia

Between 12th and 13th of December 2022 in Belgrade, Stanica- Service for Contemporary Dance organized meetings of the Nomad Dance Academy network, as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements.