Author: lokomotiva

Lokomotiva ::: Independently curated programme which is based on collaboration with artists working with live arts, or dance, choreography and performance. Program is supporting research and production of art and knowledge through residencies, productions of dance, lectures-presentations, conferences, workshops, symposiums etc., in which certain problems in the field are reflected, reassessed and critically reconsidered.

 EDN Research Publication „Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dancе“

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European Dancehouse Network/ EDN Research Publication

„Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dancе“

15 November 2022 

LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture together with other members of European Dancehouse Network is promoting EDN Research Publication.

Across Europe, dance organisations and the arts in general are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability. As part of its EDNext 2022-2024 programme, the European Dancehouse Network has focused on the issue of environmental sustainability in its first year. The research publication “Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Dance: Emerging Issues, Practises and Recommendations” was commissioned to Jordi Baltà Portolés, who works as a consultant and researcher at Trànsit Projectes, a cultural management company based in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona.

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“Closeness of Touch” by Igor Koruga I 47. MOT I Lokomotiva I (Non)Aligned Movements

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(Non)Aligned Movements/ 47. MOT Festival

“Closeness of Touch” by Igor Koruga

Choreographic work and performance

18th November 2022, Friday, 21 h 

@ MKC Gallery, MKC

 

Tikets here

 

Choreography, performance, video, text: Igor Koruga

Dramaturgy: Ana Dubljević

Costume design: Maja Mirković

Production: Goethe institute & Station service for contemporary dance

Video: Miloš Janjić

* the work uses a parts of a dramatic text “Scenes of constructed relationships” by Dimitrije Kokanov

Photography by Vladimir Opsenica

Duration: 35 minutes

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Performance’s emergence I 47. MOT I Lokomotiva I (Non)Aligned Movements

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(Non) Aligned Movements / 47. MOT 

Performance’s emergence 

18th November 2022, Friday, 8:00 p.m

@Dancing Hall, MKC 

 

Tickets: https://bileti.mkc.mk/index.php?id=1166

 

Artistic director and artistic leader of the project: Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld

Choreography and performance: Koraljka Begović, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Mia Kevo,Larisa Lipovac Navojec, Nives Soldičić,Melita Spahić Bezjak,Irma Unušić

Dramaturgy: Jasmina Založnik

Music: Marin Živković

Light design: Saša Fistrić

Costumes: NDA CRO with influence of Irma Unušić

Choreography assistance: Tamara Curić

Set design: Hrvoje Jelincić

Photo: Fanni Tutek-Hajnal

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Sad Sam Almost 6 by Matija Ferlin I 47. MOT I Lokomotiva I (Non)Aligned Movements

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(Non) Aligned Movements / 47. MOT 

Matija Ferlin: Sad Sam Almost 6

17th November 2022, Thursday. 7:00 p.m

@Dancing Hall, MKC 

Tickets: https://bileti.mkc.mk/index.php?id=1164

 

Created and performed by: Matija Ferlin

Dramaturgy: Katja Praznik

Scenography: Artikl, Silvio Živković

Costums: Artikl

Light design: Urška Vohar, Saša Fistrić

Collaborators: Alexandar Nussbaumer, Mauricio Ferlin, Maja Celija, Maja Delak

Project coordinator: Sabina Potočki

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Premiere of the dance performance “I need a new body” I 47. MOT I LOKOMOTIVA I FIRSTBORN GIRL10 |

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Choreographed bodies programme/ 47. MOT Festival

Premiere of the dance performance

“I need a new body”

16.11.2022, 20 h 

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

 

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

Performance: Viktorija Ilioska and Nastya Dzyuban

Voices: Amélie Haller and Maren Küpper

Design: Julijana Mladenovska

In a world where we enjoy a fake image of endless resources, where we sucked the earth to draw out the last bits, how do we continue to pump? The operation of pumping, that is, moving matters from one location to another, seems to be at the core of most vital processes of both production and reproduction. We draw, suck, elicit, and drain the earth’s body to enrich our lives on it, emptying our future(s). At the same time, we suck, boost, inject and inflate our bodies, transgressing their capacities. Pumping can paradoxically be at the same time capitalist practice of exhaustion as well as the feminist practice of enrichment and enhancement. Once pumped on one side, the other one is being sucked. Perhaps, eventually this piece will be busy with wasting, emptying and exhausting. One thing is certain, “I need a new body” will take place in-between: between a body as an exhibition and a body as a resource while looking at the place where these two intersect.

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(Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning: precarious story-sharing

(Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning: precarious story-sharing

Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits, Maša Radi Buh

November 3, 2022 

 

Conference of Academies at PAF-Performing Arts Forum 

(an encounter on politics and the relevant urgencies within the academic and professional performing arts field initiated by Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo)

28th September – 2nd October 2022, St Erme, France

 

(Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning:  precarious story-sharing

Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits and Masa Radi Buh

(invited to PAF and mentored by Ana Vujanović in the frame of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) program)

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Art Institution Politics Body/ Exhibition of Simona Mancheva and Zorica Zafirovska at Museum Gallery Kavadartsi

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LOКOMOTIVА APIB program/ Exhibitionѕ

Simona Mancheva “Criminal acts against life and body” 

Zorica Zafirovska “Invisibility of presence” 

November 10 and 11, 2022

@ Museum Gallery Kavadartsi

 

“Criminal acts against life and body” by Simona Mancheva and “Invisibility of presence” by Zorica Zafirovska were created as part of the Art Institution Body Politics/APIB program of Lokomotiva, which supports the research artistic process of these two artists during one year. Within the framework of this program Lokomotiva deals with critical considerations in the artistic field, and the socio-political economic, environmental and other influences on and in it. With this aim, it opens joint processes with cultural workers and artists and provides space for thinking, acting and creating. The artists had the opportunity to expand their research and formulate it in their own works that will be exhibited on 11.11.2022 at the Kavadartsi Gallery Museum.

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop “Emotional dance tools“ with Boban Ruseski

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop

“Emotional dance tools“ with Boban Ruseski

November 5th, 13:00-15:00 h

@ Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje is organising the third KULTRENING choreography and dance workshop with the dancer and choreographer Boban Ruseski.

Sign up by email at kultrening@gmail.com till 04.11.2022, the number of participants is limited.

The workshop “Emotional dance tools“ with Boban Ruseski will enable the participants to familiarize themselves about possibilities of bodily engaging movements and tools for creating and staging their own choreographies.

The workshop is divided in two parts, the first part is a warm-up and study of floor technique, followed by the development and continuation of work on the choreographic work “Social Criticism”, a work by Boban Ruseski staged in 2019. (for the festival for young choreographers “DanceLab” with one dancer, in 2020 at the dance festival “Tanс Fest” the same piece was reworked with an added vocalist and actor on the stage itself and is titled “Jas&Sara – Social Criticism”, in 2022. The dance festival “Dance Fest” is staged with a new line-up, namely three dancers and is titled “Social Criticism” with the music by Martin Modent, costume design by Mite Zanov, visual artist Iva Stankovska).

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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

4th 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.

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“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
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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.

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