EDN Atelier: “The Body of Skill and Opportunity: Equity Through Embodied Practices”

Dansateliers and ICK Dans hosted an EDN Atelier connected to the Moving Futures Festival in Rotterdam and Amsterdam

Teodora Ezovska, artist from North Macedonia, supported by Lokomotiva joined a 3-day Atelier to explore different approaches to equity as an integral part of dance practices.

The Atelier is co-organised by Dansateliers Rotterdam and ICK Dans Amsterdam and takes place in Rotterdam on 17 – 18 May, 2023 and in Amsterdam on 19 May during the Moving Futures festival.

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

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?”

 

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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European Dancehouse Network’s General Assembly meeting in Barcelona

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European Dancehouse Network 

General Assembly Meeting

27-28 June 2022

@ Mercat de les Flors, Barselona

 

After long break during 27th and 28th of June, in Barcelona will happen the General Assembly meeting of European Dancehouse Network – EDN. As representative of Lokomotiva, Skopje, Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski attended the assembly. During these days the representatives of the member organizations will have opportunity to meet again and have important discussions, information sharing and decision-making.

During the General Assembly, co-organised by Mercat de les Flors, held in Barcelona on 28 June 2022, EDN members voted for new president and board members of the European Dancehouse Network.

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All dance professionals and others join the EDN Online Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience”

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European Dancehouse Network/ Online Forum

“Are you here? Dance and its audience”  

October 12,  2021

Organized by EDN, The Place and Saddler’s Wells

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje as one of the members of European Dancehouse Network  is inviting you to join the EDN Online Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience” is the online event open to all dance professionals and others who would like to delve into the complexities of the relationship between dance and its audience.

Join us online on 12 October 2021!

European Dancehouse Network together with The Place and Saddler’s Wells organize EDN Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience”.

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#DanceAndWellBeing campaign in cooperation with the European Network of Dance Houses – EDN

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Online classes

EDN/ #DanceAndWellBeing campaign

“Screensaver” presentation of a research by Aleksandar Georgiev

January 21, 2021

 

From November 2020 – February 2021 in cooperation with the European Network of Dance Houses – EDN, Lokomotiva actively participated in the creation of the format #DanceAndWellBeing program and proposed the choreographer Aleksandar Georgiev who held online classes as part of the program Contemporary choreography and dance / Kultrening.

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Lokomotiva – Kino Kultura project space – became a member of EDN – European Dancehouse Network

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EDN- European Dancehouse Network

Lokomotiva & Kino Kultura project space – became a member of EDN

 

We are delighted to announce that Kino Kultura project space, represented by Lokomotiva, became one of the members of EDN- European Dancehouse Network.

For the founders, Lokomotiva and Theatre Navigator, this is important news and is the realization of part of our goals for internationalization.

This membership in EDN, for us, means that Kino Kultura as a project space for contemporary performing arts, among what, dance and performance was recognized and supported by the international partners.

 

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