Category: MOT Festival

International theatre festival MOT stands for Mlad (Young), Otvoren (Open), Teatar (Theater). MOT theatre is engaging and critically progressive theater festival happening in Skopje, North Macedonia holding its program in YCC Youth Cultural Centre. MOT as one of the oldest international theater festivals in the region, persists to draw a public with of all ages with its repertoire. Every year boldly holds international program in with local and guest performances from Balkans, Europa and beyond. In the past years Lokomotiva, Skopje creates part of the festival program by curating and organizing independent and regional productions and supporting various independent artists and dance groups.

Premiere of the dance performance “I need a new body” I 47. MOT I LOKOMOTIVA I FIRSTBORN GIRL10 |

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Choreographed bodies programme/ 47. MOT Festival

Premiere of the dance performance

“I need a new body”

16.11.2022, 20 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

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Concept and choreography: Viktorija Ilioska in conversation with Nastya Dzyuban, Laura Stellacci

Performance: Viktorija Ilioska and Nastya Dzyuban

Voices: Amélie Haller and Maren Küpper

Design: Julijana Mladenovska

In a world where we enjoy a fake image of endless resources, where we sucked the earth to draw out the last bits, how do we continue to pump? The operation of pumping, that is, moving matters from one location to another, seems to be at the core of most vital processes of both production and reproduction. We draw, suck, elicit, and drain the earth’s body to enrich our lives on it, emptying our future(s). At the same time, we suck, boost, inject and inflate our bodies, transgressing their capacities. Pumping can paradoxically be at the same time capitalist practice of exhaustion as well as the feminist practice of enrichment and enhancement. Once pumped on one side, the other one is being sucked. Perhaps, eventually this piece will be busy with wasting, emptying and exhausting. One thing is certain, “I need a new body” will take place in-between: between a body as an exhibition and a body as a resource while looking at the place where these two intersect.

SCREENSAVER choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev in the space of MKC

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Art Institution Politics Body/ MOT + Programme

SCREENSAVER

A choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev

4^th November, 2022 @ 20.00

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

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Hey dear. Bring your presence right here and invite everyone to your memory, your imagination, your daydreaming, to the stories that start with “what if”. While doing so be gracefully stable, not necessarily peaceful, most probably busy, but absolutely graceful, amused with the signals of satisfaction risen when you get stuck in movement loops which slightly rock your flesh and organs, or when, with a cultured alongué and its invisible but tangible traces from which flowers raise up, you send information and data that conquers the room, as if a rose´s essence hits you while walking your favourite street.

“seguir moviendo” choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas in the space of MKC

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Choreographed Bodies/ MOT + Programme

“seguir moviendo”

choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas

November 3, 2022, 21.00 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

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Block tickets for both performances here

this whole text fails repeatedly with no hope for ever-not failing: through a flux of specific whateverness, incipient multiplicity.* to shift the ground that moves you, suspending. yet the baroque twists and turns its fold, pushing them to infinity, fold over fold.* it has been happening for 12.6 billion years. it goes very well with what you know you know. transitoria y fugaz. a disjointed, a nomad lost in a kind of irreducible odyssey…with the aimless conviction that every movement will fail to find a destination, a «good reading», a valid interpretation.* fogging its own edges. piensa, con oído. is it this? i ask. more or less, more or less, ambiguous, not a clear thing. from on-going morphing, disappearing, to dissolution, to stardust (and in reverse, upside down and disordered) (again). aware of what it is not yet and what it could be soon or not. in approximately 4.7533108 x 10-8 millenniums a whistle will take over the space.

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

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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.”

Three performances as part of the MOT + program аt MKC

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3^rd November, 2022

Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy by Aleksandra Petrushevska

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seguir moviendo by Darío Bardam

tickets 21.00 here

Block tickets for both performances here

4^th November, 2022 @ 20.00

SCREENSAVER by Aleksandar Georgiev

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@ 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.

(Cancelled) “Poiesis of self” performance by Snježana Premuš together with Rok Vevar in the frame of MOT

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Art, politics, institution, body/ Performance

“Poiesis of self” by Snježana Premuš and Rok Vevar

November 22, 2021, 22:00 – 22:50

46th edition of Mlad otvoren teatar

@ Cinema Frosina, 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.

Premiere of “The Power of S“ with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas in the frame of MOT

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Art, politics, institution, body/ Performance

“The Power of S“ with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas

November 22, 2021, 22:00 – 22:50 h

46th edition of International Theatre Festival – MOT

@ Dancing hall 25 May, 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.

“DOWL – ‘Dance, dance, Otherwise We’re Lost’“ performance by Sonja Pregrad in the frame of MOT

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(Non)Aligned Movements/ Performance

“DOWL – ‘Dance, dance, Otherwise We’re Lost’“ by Sonja Pregrad

November 22, 19:00 – 20:20 h

46th edition of International Theatre Festival – MOT

@ Dancing hall 25 May/Foyer, 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.

Program of Lokomotiva at the 46-th edition of the International Theatre Festival – MOT

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On 22nd of November, within the 46th edition of the International Theatre Festival – MOT presents the following works:

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost (“DOWL”) on Sonja Pregrad (Croatia)

November 22, 2021 at 19:00 – 20:20

@ Dancing hall 25 May/Foyer, at Youth Cultural Center

“The Power of S” (premiere) by Aleksandar Georgiev in collaboration with Zhana Penceva and Dario Barreto Damas (North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Spain)

November 22, 2021 at 22:00 – 22:50

@ Dancing hall 25 May, at Youth Cultural Center

MOONLIGHT performance at 44.MOT Festival

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15.09.2019, 22:00, Kino Kultura

Lokomotiva Skopje in collaboration with 44.MOT 2019 is presenting you the performance MOONLIGHT

Choreography and performance: Aleksandar Georgiev and Dario Barreto Damas
Duration: 45 min.
Language: without text

About the performance:
MOONLIGHT is a choreographic project focused on poetic structures, a staged exploration of dispersed meanings, a malleable reality. This proposal rediscovers persistently established identities, unfolding and queering normativity. MOONLIGHT functions as a quick machinery of change and disruption.