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.

Conference: How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance

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European Dancehouse Network/ Conference

How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance

14 November 2022 @ Online

 

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EDN is organizing an online conference to which artists, cultural practitioners, academics, and local and international policy makers are invited. The conference on 14 November between 10:00 and 13:00 will coincide with the release and public presentation of EDN’s upcoming research publication. Register by 10 November 2022.

How can we move? This question is a common thread running through EDN’s 2022 activities. The conference will bring together conversations, thoughts, and actions around the theme of ecological sustainability. The annual online closing event on November 14, 2022, titled “How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance,” will bring together participants from within and outside the network and the sector, address burning issues for the sector and for society and culture more broadly, and present the results of all annual project activities.

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EDNext Sustainability Campaign “Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance: How Can We Move?”

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European Dancehouse Network/ Sustainability Campaign

How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance

14 November 2022 @ Online

 

EDN campaign presents concrete actions and ideas to engage the contemporary dance sector in Europe, its advocates, funders and stakeholders, in a shared movement towards a sustainable future.

How are ecological concerns addressed by contemporary dance organisations? Which are the main challenges with “greening” the way we design, produce and present contemporary dance artworks? What do we need in order to achieve greater ecological sustainability? And what has to be taken into consideration in view of our diverse international realities?

These were some of the central questions raised during EDN’s workshops, meetings and exchanges in 2022, that gathered ideas, actions and good practices contributed by a diverse pool of participants; artists, thinkers, leaders and producers from the field of contemporary dance and beyond.

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Lecture and workshop “Channels of Feeling” with Justin Cabrillos (USA)

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GPS/Global Practice Sharing exchange program/ Lecture and workshop

“Channels of Feeling” with Justin Cabrillos (USA)

Lokomotiva in collaboration with GPS, Movement Research, New York and Station- Service for Contemporary dance, Belgrade

03-04 October 2022 @ Youth Cultural Center, Skopje

 

LOKOMOTIVA – center for new initiatives in culture and art from Skopje in cooperation with Movement Research from New York, on October 4th (Tuesday), in the hall “25 May” in the Youth Cultural Center, starting at 11.00 am, organizes a workshop with Justin Cabrillos, a choreographer, artist and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn. In addition to the workshop, Justin Cabrillos will also hold a lecture for the students of the dance department at “Goce Delchev” University.

The workshop “Channels of Feeling” held together with local choreographers and dancers Aleksandra Petrushevska, Jovana Zajkova, Tereza Lazarev and Boban Ruseski explores how emotions circulate through the body and is intended for performers with and without experience. The participants, along with Justin, will move using imagery, meditation and tasks that encourage different ways of perceiving and embodying emotional states and unnameable sensations. The practical exercises will emphasize how we can individually connect with the different emotions and feelings that are stored in our bodies. The aim of the workshop is to separate the emotions from the physical, to discover alternative ways of moving and how to exist in parallel with these emotions.

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Residency “Dance in (non) democracy”

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Lokomotiva in collaboration with GPS, Movement Research, New York and Station- Service for Contemporary dance, Belgrade

Residency “Dance in (non) democracy” with Justin Cabrillos (USA), Sam Kim (USA), Jovana Rakić (SRB) and Aleksandra Petrushevska (MK)

Curators: Marijana Cvetković (SRB) and Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski (MK)

26 September – 05 November, 2022 @ Belgrade & Skopje

 

Title of the residency “Dance in (non)democracy” is thought as a trigger for collective reflection on the practices and roles of dance artists in social and political situations in which they are faced with partial or complete damage of democratic social protocols and institutions. In a small lab format artists will talk about their practices in those directions, exchange, give and take, and aerate their permanent care for their social/artistic/political context.
A week together in Belgrade and in Skopje is meant to be a place for critical thinking and mutual support.

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting in Hamburg, Germany

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ACT: Art, Climate, Transition/ Partners meeting/ Networking

September 29-30, 2022

@ Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik, Hamburg, Germany

 

On 29th and 30th of September representatives from Lokomotiva attended ACT Network meetings held in Hamburg, Germany as part of the Art Climate Transition project.

During these 2 days the program organized by Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik, Hamburg (Germany) was followed by representatives of the project partners: Art Admin/London, Bunker/Ljubljana, Kaai Theater/Brussels, COAL/Paris, Domino/Zagreb, Kampnagel/Hamburg, NTIL/Riga, Rotterdam Theatre/Rotterdam, The Change Management Research Group/ The Hague, and Lokomotiva/Skopje.

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Public lecture by Bojana Kunst “Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” in Struga

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“Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022”

Summer School “Curating in context”/ public lecture 

“Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” by Bojana Kunst 

Wednesday, 31.08.2022 at 19:00pm

@ Summer stage, Cultural centre, Struga

 

In the frame of the summer school “Curating in context” that will happen in Struga, public lecture “Thinking and Making beyond the project: Making temporal kinships” (Precarity and artistic work) will take place at 31st of August, at 7pm, at the “Summer stage” in the Cultural centre in Struga.

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Critical Movement Residency and workshops by elena rose light and Frida Laux

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(Non)Aligned Movement/ Critical Movement Residency

Research residency by elena rose light and Frida Laux

August 28 – September 3, 2022, @ Struga and Skopje

Summer school “Curating in Context”/ “Curatorial Practices in Context”

Workshop with elena rose light and Frida Laux

August 30th, 2022 @ Cultural centre, Struga

 

In the period of August 29 – September 3, 2022 in Struga, Lokomotiva, Skopje is hosting Critical Movement Residency as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movement. One of aims of the residency is to deepen collaborations in the field of dance and choreography and support young choreographers and performers including the residents elena rose light and Frida Laux.

The residents will investigate choreography and dance practices throughout the process of discussion, thinking and writing. Their work and research intend to deepen the choreographic processes through collaboration, sharing and meeting with local artists and cultural workers and extending their collaborative network.

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SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT 2022

SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT
STRUGA, NORTH MACEDONIA
29.08.2022 – 02.09.2022

PROGRAM/Abstracts and Bios
Summer School “Curating in Context”/ Intensive week in Struga, North Macedonia Aug. 29 – Sept. 2.

29.08. Monday
11.00- 12.15// Introduction and context presentation/ Brief introduction on the course presentation of the SKH, OPEN course and presentation of the participants by Tove Salmgren and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

Bio: Tove Salmgren works as a dancer, choreographer, curator and educator. Since 2016 she leads, together with the artist Kajsa Wadhia, Köttinspektionen Dans, an artist-driven platform and place for experimental dance and choreography in Uppsala, Sweden. As a choreographer, she explores shifted perspectives and reality, often through tiny interventions, based on the interest in negotiating what art (and non-art) can do and be as a place for the emancipatory unknown. Tove has over the last decade been part of various artistic collaborations, such as “The Blob” (initiated by Anna Efraimsson), a curatorial persona exercising and practicing an institutional critique of art, knowledge and beyond, the curatorial collaboration “We happen things” (with Manon Santkin and Moa Franzén) and since 2018, she forms, together with Moa Franzén and Kajsa Wadhia, a performance trio which explores the voice as physical materiality and choreographic tool. Since 2017, she has been employed as a Lecturer in perfomative practices at SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts.

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(Non)Aligned Movements “Summit” organised in Struga

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(Non)Aligned Movements/ Nomad Dance Academy Summit

25 – 30 August 2022@ Hotel Drim, Struga

Nomad Dance Academy presentation at Summer School “Curating in context”

Tuesday, 30th August 2022 at 19:00pm @ Foyer, Cultural centre, Struga

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th till 30th of August 2022 in the small city of Struga, will organize “Summit” meetings of the Nomad Dance Academy network, as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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Three activities as part of the (Non)Aligned Movements project organised in Struga

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Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th of August till the 3rd of September in the small city of Struga, will organize three activities as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements:

  • from 25.08.-30.08.2022 meeting of the Nomad Dance Academy network, entitled “Summit”,
  • from 28.08.- 03.09.2022 International Summer School “Curating in Context” part of the Open Course “Curatorial Practice in Context” at the Stockholm Academy of Arts, 
  • “Critical movement” residencies by Frida Laux (France) and Elena Rose Light (USA) from 28.08.- 03.09.2022.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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