Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) have been developing a long-term collaboration that gathers performance and body-based artists, theorists, and researchers from USA and the Balkans who engage deeply with issues of queerness in their work. They met in Skopje in June 2022 in the context of the Skopje Pride Weekend and Queer Arts festival, and this year their meeting in New York coincided with NYC Pride Weekend.
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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.
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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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“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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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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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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Lokomotiva in collaboration with Movement Research, New York
(2-11 June, 2022)
Artists in residence: Jasmine Hearn, zavé martohardjono, Sarah A.O. Rosner, Raymond Pinto (USA), Vladimir Bjeličić (SRB), Olja Grubić (SLO) and Aleksandar Georgiev (MK)
GPS Visiting Scholar: Levi Gonzales (USA)
Program:
2-10 June @ Macedonian National theatre and Mala Stanica (laboratory for exchanging practices and meetings with artists and cultural workers)
@ 09 June, 20:00 @ Mala Stanica/ @Skopje Pride Weekend Festival 2022
“Performing presentations” by Jasmine Hearn, zavé martohardjono, Raymond Pinto and Sarah A.O. Rosner
Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) are developing a collaboration that will gather artists, theorists, and researchers from USA and Balkans who define them and their work as queer, each from their specific artistic perspective.
During the collaboration we will try to explore diverse practices among themselves, as artists and cultural workers, also bringing closer local perspectives and situations in which such work appears and is developed.
Collaboration is developed through laboratory for exchanging practices, meetings and presentations on the Pride Weekend 2022, Festival for queer arts, culture and theory.
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Cooperation between Cultural Workers and Artists from the USA and the Balkans
Queer and feminist dance practices/ Online Workshop
Monday, December 20, 2021/ 17.00 CET/ 11.00 ET
Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) are developing collaboration that will gather artists from USA and Balkans who define them and their work as queer, each in their specific artistic perspective. During the collaboration we will try to explore diverse practices among themselves, as artists and cultural workers, also bringing closer local perspectives and situations in which such work appear and it is developed.
Collaboration will be developed through formats of online and live gatherings in Skopje and New York.
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GPS/Global Practice Sharing yearly meeting/ program GPS Chats
Cooperation between Cultural Workers and Artists from the USA and the Balkans
January 8-12, 2020
@ Movement Research, New York, USA
Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski as a representative from Lokomotiva, from 8-12 January attended GPS/Global Practice Sharing yearly meeting and program GPS Chats event at Movement Research’s Courtyard Studio. Besides, she followed performances and met artists, managers and curators from USA with who discussed for future collaborations.
