SCREENSAVER choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev in the space of MKC

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Art Institution Politics Body/ MOT + Programme

SCREENSAVER

A choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev

4^th November, 2022 @ 20.00

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

tickets here

Hey dear. Bring your presence right here and invite everyone to your memory, your imagination, your daydreaming, to the stories that start with “what if”. While doing so be gracefully stable, not necessarily peaceful, most probably busy, but absolutely graceful, amused with the signals of satisfaction risen when you get stuck in movement loops which slightly rock your flesh and organs, or when, with a cultured alongué and its invisible but tangible traces from which flowers raise up, you send information and data that conquers the room, as if a rose´s essence hits you while walking your favourite street.

“seguir moviendo” choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas in the space of MKC

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Choreographed Bodies/ MOT + Programme

“seguir moviendo”

choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas

November 3, 2022, 21.00 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

tickets here

Block tickets for both performances here

this whole text fails repeatedly with no hope for ever-not failing: through a flux of specific whateverness, incipient multiplicity.* to shift the ground that moves you, suspending. yet the baroque twists and turns its fold, pushing them to infinity, fold over fold.* it has been happening for 12.6 billion years. it goes very well with what you know you know. transitoria y fugaz. a disjointed, a nomad lost in a kind of irreducible odyssey…with the aimless conviction that every movement will fail to find a destination, a «good reading», a valid interpretation.* fogging its own edges. piensa, con oído. is it this? i ask. more or less, more or less, ambiguous, not a clear thing. from on-going morphing, disappearing, to dissolution, to stardust (and in reverse, upside down and disordered) (again). aware of what it is not yet and what it could be soon or not. in approximately 4.7533108 x 10-8 millenniums a whistle will take over the space.

Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy by Aleksandra Petrushevska in the space of MKC

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Choreographed Bodies/ MOT + Programme

Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy

Choreography and performance by Aleksandra Petrushevska

November 3, 2022, 19.30 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

tickets here

Block tickets for both performances here

Description of the piece:

“Cold Air” is an ode to the female fantasy and an invitation to come closer to the fragile and vulnerable female inner world.
Air is invisible, but when cold, the eyes can grasp it.
With every breath I keep track of time. I whisper to myself, “I am still alive.”

Three performances as part of the MOT + program аt MKC

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3^rd November, 2022

Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy by Aleksandra Petrushevska

tickets 19.30 here

seguir moviendo by Darío Bardam

tickets 21.00 here

Block tickets for both performances here

4^th November, 2022 @ 20.00

SCREENSAVER by Aleksandar Georgiev

tickets here

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

https://mkc.mk/

The MOT + program is part of a collaboration between Lokomotiva and MOT, and is part of an ongoing process of a several-year-long mutual endeavour to bring to the Macedonian audience a view of the latest local, regional and international dance and performance productions affiliated with the Lokomotiva program, which aims to position dance as a socially and politically relevant artistic form enabling diverse bodies in dance to distract, affect, extend or amplify our view on dance and performance. The three performances will give us a view of the latest works of exquisite artists Aleksandra Petrushevska, Darío Bardam and Aleksandar Georgiev, who collaborated with Lokomotiva over the past year and now premiere their pieces at MOT+. Their artistic contribution to our scene is not only aesthetic, but socio-political in their shared labour and contribution of resources during the production process. United and collectively, we are creating in this program the possibility to develop our contemporary dance and performance scene, and this collaboration is a step forward to make it possible and accessible.

Critical practice for “Curatorial practice in context”

Curating in Context Summer School

Struga, North Macedonia

August 29 – September 5, 2022

“Con-texts: the curatorial, the lake, the writing bodies and bodies of water”

Few notes from Struga Summer School / a collective diary of sharing thoughts

Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits, Jette Buchsenschutz, Kasia Wolinska, Maeve Johnson, Masa Radi Buh

Where is your body now? How does it feel?

Cause my body, for instance, is trying to recall and tune in to the feeling it experienced when the above questions were introduced at the very beginning of the Summer School in Struga. We were sitting on a sunny terrace in a circle, facing each other, trying to return to our bodies in order to feel what we’re coming with, what we could bring into the collective process that was just about to begin, what we were ready (or not) to share. My body came to Struga quite overwhelmed by holidays which actually were not so holidayish, but instead they were rich in deadlines, taking care for others and no-time-to-loose-tasks. So my body was somewhere in between tightening muscles there on the nape of my neck, and a relief dissolving my tension thanks to the fresh waters of the primeval Ohrid Lake – a slowing-down teaser promising to experience something here.

Art Institution Politics Body/ Queer body “THE ULTIMATE” – a series of workshops with drag performers

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Art Institution Politics Body/ Queer body

“THE ULTIMATE” – a series of workshops with drag performers

November 01-05, 2022, 5:00 p.m

November 25-30, 2022, 6:00 p.m

November 26, 2022 8:00 p.m performances

@ Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts & Socio-cultural center KOMITET

Lokomotiva, Skopje, in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the socio-cultural center Komitet organizes THE ULTIMATE – a series of open workshops and performances for drag and queer culture.

This week November 01-05, 2022, 5:00 p.m. in the space KOMITET we will have the opportunity to share our experiences with local and future drag queens and open new spaces and forms for the expression and growth of drag culture…

In the next scheduled period November 25-30, we will work together with Jana Jakimovska on personal drag comedy act.

The series of workshops and performances with drag artists, Ultimate #2 second year in the row will be led by the drag artists themselves Dario Barretto Damas (known as Irma Swan), Aleksandar Georgiev (known as Tita Extra Vita), Jana Jakimovska (known as Linda Socialista), Jovan Gakovski and others together will explore the various practices related to this culture.

Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop “My body, my home“ with Hristina Angelovska

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop

“My body, my home“ with Hristina Angelovska

November 1, 19:00-21:00 h

@ Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

Lokomotiva is organising the third KULTRENING choreography and dance workshop with Hristina Angelovska.

The workshop “My body, my home“ with Hristina Angelovska will encouragе free movements enabling the participants to present themselves in the way they want and want to be recognized.

The workshop will be conducted according to principle that each participants can create movements, define a relationship and the freedom in it, everyone can breathe freely and move as long as they need it. Anyone can start and stop whenever they want, they just need to have a strong enough reason to do so.

Socio-Political Agency of Contemporary Dance: USA-Balkan Exchange: Practice and Discourse Sharing Laboratory

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“Socio-Political Agency of Contemporary Dance:

USA-Balkan Exchange: Practice and Discourse Sharing Laboratory“

with Thomas F. DeFrantz, Kathy Westwater, Andros Zins-Browne,

Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski, Viktorija Ilioska, Jovana Zajkova,

Tereza Lazarev and Theodora Ezhovska

October 17- 31 2022 @ Sofia, Belgrade and Skopje

Organized by The Chocolate Theatеr (New York), New Dramaturgies Platform (Sofia),

Lokomotiva – Centre for new initiatives in arts and culture (Skopje),

Stanica/Station Service for contemporary dance (Belgrade), Movement Research Inc. (New York)

In challenging social and political times of turbulence on so many levels of private and public life, the realms of politics and the political as mechanisms for regulating and negotiating common living come to the fore. As other areas of human activity, performing arts and dance in particular, which function within the larger picture of the social order, also insist on being thought through this perspective, inevitable in conditions of crisis.

“Blurring the Background: Black Performance as Political Ontology” Lecture by Thomas F. DeFrantz

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“Socio-Political Agency of Contemporary Dance” Project

“Blurring the Background: Black Performance as Political Ontology”

Lecture by Thomas F. DeFrantz

28 October 2022 at 19:00 h

@ Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

Lokomotiva – Centre for new initiatives in arts and culture (Skopje), in collaboration with The Chocolate Factory Theatеr (New York), New Dramaturgies Platform (Sofia), Stanica/Station Service for contemporary dance (Belgrade), Movement Research Inc. (New York) is inviting you to the “Blurring the Background: Black Performance as Political Ontology” lecture by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop “Sensitive Body“ with Tereza Lazarev

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop

“Sensitive Body“ with Tereza Lazarev

October 18, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m

@ Youth Cultural Center

LOKOMOTIVA – Center for New Initiatives in Art and Culture invites you to the second KULTRENING/Choreography and dance workshop “Sensitive Body” with Teresa Lazarev at the Youth Cultural Center (MKC).

The workshop is open to participants with or without previous dance experience. Sign up by email at kultrening@gmail.com by October 17, the number of participants is limited.

The “Sensitive Body” workshop is composed of three parts:

1) embodying

2) practicing

3) sharing

Through working with different images the participants together with Tereza, will try to create a space for rising awareness of personal moving patterns, while creating a space for explore new ones. Working on their own, with a partner or in a group, the participants will practice how to play with touch.