Regular open classes for contemporary dance techniques and movement research. The classes, held by international and domestic choreographers and movement practitioners are free and open to wider community.
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.
19.06 and 20.06.2023 @ 11.00-12.30 at UGD
Practising (re-)orienting
In this re-orienting practice, we will start with the question “what difference does it make what we are oriented toward?” and move on not only forwards, but also backwards. Moved by the Feldenkrais-inspired principle of practicing curiosity, we will together orient ourselves towards the senses, sensations, body parts, movements and sounds that are usually underrepresented and marginalised. What are the things that we are leaving behind, behind our backs? Moving in-between these questions, we will play around with scoring sensations, practicing anticipation and developing telepathic connections.
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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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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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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
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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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop
“Co-teaching: dots of sheltering bodies” with Viktorija Ilioska and Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld
(Non)Aligned Movements/ Public presentation
Research by Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev
November 18-19, 2021, 17:00 – 19:00 h
@ Mandolin orchestra, Youth Cultural Center
Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.
In the frame of Kultrenig this year’s choreographic research team of the (Non)Aligned Movements project: Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev, will hold public presentation on 19th of November, about their research work, as an exchange with the local scene.
Sign up by e-mail at Kultrening@gmail.com the number of participants is limited.
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Kultrening / Choreography and dance workshop
“S-Hall“ with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas
November 11, 11:00 – 12:30 h
@ Mandolin orchestra, Youth Cultural Center
Sign up by e-mail at Kultrening@gmail.com the number of participants is limited.
Join our free classes and workshops in YCC and follow the announcements on our pages.
Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.
Aleksandar together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas would like to invite you to KULTRENING to share their fascination with dance and choreography through approaching the mechanisms of dance practice that he called “S-Hall”.
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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop
“Choreographic miniatures” with Aleksandra Petrushevska
September 15 – 17 2021, 17:00 – 19:00 h
@ Gallery, Youth Cultural Center
Sign up by e-mail at Kultrening@gmail.com the number of participants is limited.
Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.
With great pleasure, we are announcing the following KULTRENING – series of dance and choreography workshops with choreographers and performers Aleksandra Petrushevska, Ivana Kocevska and Hristina Angelovska!
In the following period, these three artists will share their research, experiences and thoughts in the field of dance and choreography through the workshops that we will hold as part of the KULTRENING program.
