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.

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.”

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Three performances as part of the MOT + program аt MKC

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3rd 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

 

4th November, 2022 @ 20.00

SCREENSAVER by Aleksandar Georgiev

tickets here

 

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Sign up by email at kultrening@gmail.com till October 31, 2022, the number of participants is limited.

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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop “Stillness in Motion“ with Jovana Zajkova

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Kultrening / Choreography and dance workshop

“Stillness in Motion“ with Jovana Zajkova

October 15, 13:00 – 15:00

@ Youth Cultural Center

 

Lokomotiva starts with the new series of KULTRENING free classes and workshops.

Join the first Kultrening workshop for this year is with Jovana Zajkova.

Sign up by email at kultrening@gmail.com by October 13, 2022, the number of participants is limited.

 

Follow the announcements on our social pages for the next workshops.

Zajkova is a keen researcher of ancient eastern disciplines and the principles behind them, which she applies in her practice physically as well as spiritually. In this workshop, she will share some of her ongoing research and long-term knowledge. For the participants without previous experience, the workshop will be a way to harmonize and balance the cognitive and the physical, whereas physically active participants (dancers, movers, athletes) will be offered a different perspective and new concepts of movement and the body.

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition / Between Glitter and Compost a Conversation on Ecofeminism

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ACT: Art, climate, transition/ Talk

Between Glitter and Compost

A Conversation on Ecofeminism

Suzana Milevska and Myriam Bahaffou, Moderated by Philsan Osman

October 14, 2022

 

In May 2021 Kaaitheater invited philosopher Suzana Milevska for an online lecture on ecofeminist art practices. This October she will resume this talk in live Brussels and will be joined by researcher and ecofeminist activist Myriam Bahaffou.

Patriarchal systems in different world cultures have long interpreted women as obsessed with cleansing and purification, parallel to the anthropologically driven representation of women as ‘dirty’. How can ecofeminism create environmental awareness while also deconstructing the stereotypical and patriarchal hierarchical assumptions of women’s creativity and productivity?

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