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.
Nastya Dzyuban (Ukraine) together with her colleagues and collaborators Viktorija Ilioska (North Macedonia) and Lee Mun Wai (Singapore)
“What difference does it make what we are oriented toward?”, asks Sarah Ahmed. In her perspective, queer phenomenology might be the way to be facing towards the back. But what does it mean to be oriented backwards? And more generally, how do we even get oriented?
Organized by: The Chocolate Factory Theater (NYC) and with the collaboration of Lokomotiva – Centre for new initiatives in arts and culture (Skopje), Station Service for contemporary dance
(Belgrade), and Movement Research (NYC)
After first part realization of this project in Balkans in October 2022 (link here), this year exchange ishappening in New York from 15-30 May, 2023.
