Category: (N)AM

(Non)Aligned Movements is the project that is designed to boost the creative and collaborative potential of contemporary dance in the Western Balkans. It reinforces the social impact of Balkan contemporary dance by raising its capacities for action and collaboration, by promoting its heritage and by inscribing it in future discourses and cultural practices.

Non Aligned Movements / Archiving and historicizing of contemporary dance in the Balkans Residency

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Non Aligned Movements / Research-Archiving Residency

Archiving and historicizing of contemporary dance in the Balkans

May 5 – 9, 2023, Skopje

@ Youth Cultural Center

 

Archiving and historicizing of contemporary dance in the Western Balkans has been one of the activities of Nomad Dance Academy in the last decade. The Non Aligned Movements archivists reside in Skopje (North Macedonia) from 5th until 9th of May 2023.
Hosted by Lokomotiva, MKD. The working team is busy with the development of the digital dance database in construction and an exhibition (A)RESISTING DANCE AND ITS BODIES – Aspects of Dance as Culture and Art in the Socialist Yugoslavia and After (working title) with a corresponding publication in a curatorial and editorial process (all out in November 2024). Their next working residency is planned in Belgrade in December 2023.

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“Closeness of Touch” by Igor Koruga I 47. MOT I Lokomotiva I (Non)Aligned Movements

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(Non)Aligned Movements/ 47. MOT Festival

“Closeness of Touch” by Igor Koruga

Choreographic work and performance

18th November 2022, Friday, 21 h 

@ MKC Gallery, MKC

 

Tikets here

 

Choreography, performance, video, text: Igor Koruga

Dramaturgy: Ana Dubljević

Costume design: Maja Mirković

Production: Goethe institute & Station service for contemporary dance

Video: Miloš Janjić

* the work uses a parts of a dramatic text “Scenes of constructed relationships” by Dimitrije Kokanov

Photography by Vladimir Opsenica

Duration: 35 minutes

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Performance’s emergence I 47. MOT I Lokomotiva I (Non)Aligned Movements

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(Non) Aligned Movements / 47. MOT 

Performance’s emergence 

18th November 2022, Friday, 8:00 p.m

@Dancing Hall, MKC 

 

Tickets: https://bileti.mkc.mk/index.php?id=1166

 

Artistic director and artistic leader of the project: Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld

Choreography and performance: Koraljka Begović, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Mia Kevo,Larisa Lipovac Navojec, Nives Soldičić,Melita Spahić Bezjak,Irma Unušić

Dramaturgy: Jasmina Založnik

Music: Marin Živković

Light design: Saša Fistrić

Costumes: NDA CRO with influence of Irma Unušić

Choreography assistance: Tamara Curić

Set design: Hrvoje Jelincić

Photo: Fanni Tutek-Hajnal

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Sad Sam Almost 6 by Matija Ferlin I 47. MOT I Lokomotiva I (Non)Aligned Movements

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(Non) Aligned Movements / 47. MOT 

Matija Ferlin: Sad Sam Almost 6

17th November 2022, Thursday. 7:00 p.m

@Dancing Hall, MKC 

Tickets: https://bileti.mkc.mk/index.php?id=1164

 

Created and performed by: Matija Ferlin

Dramaturgy: Katja Praznik

Scenography: Artikl, Silvio Živković

Costums: Artikl

Light design: Urška Vohar, Saša Fistrić

Collaborators: Alexandar Nussbaumer, Mauricio Ferlin, Maja Celija, Maja Delak

Project coordinator: Sabina Potočki

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Critical Movement Residency and workshops by elena rose light and Frida Laux

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(Non)Aligned Movement/ Critical Movement Residency

Research residency by elena rose light and Frida Laux

August 28 – September 3, 2022, @ Struga and Skopje

Summer school “Curating in Context”/ “Curatorial Practices in Context”

Workshop with elena rose light and Frida Laux

August 30th, 2022 @ Cultural centre, Struga

 

In the period of August 29 – September 3, 2022 in Struga, Lokomotiva, Skopje is hosting Critical Movement Residency as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movement. One of aims of the residency is to deepen collaborations in the field of dance and choreography and support young choreographers and performers including the residents elena rose light and Frida Laux.

The residents will investigate choreography and dance practices throughout the process of discussion, thinking and writing. Their work and research intend to deepen the choreographic processes through collaboration, sharing and meeting with local artists and cultural workers and extending their collaborative network.

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(Non)Aligned Movements “Summit” organised in Struga

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(Non)Aligned Movements/ Nomad Dance Academy Summit

25 – 30 August 2022@ Hotel Drim, Struga

Nomad Dance Academy presentation at Summer School “Curating in context”

Tuesday, 30th August 2022 at 19:00pm @ Foyer, Cultural centre, Struga

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th till 30th of August 2022 in the small city of Struga, will organize “Summit” meetings of the Nomad Dance Academy network, as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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Three activities as part of the (Non)Aligned Movements project organised in Struga

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Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th of August till the 3rd of September in the small city of Struga, will organize three activities as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements:

  • from 25.08.-30.08.2022 meeting of the Nomad Dance Academy network, entitled “Summit”,
  • from 28.08.- 03.09.2022 International Summer School “Curating in Context” part of the Open Course “Curatorial Practice in Context” at the Stockholm Academy of Arts, 
  • “Critical movement” residencies by Frida Laux (France) and Elena Rose Light (USA) from 28.08.- 03.09.2022.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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Critical Movement Residency with Nina Gojić, Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev

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(Non)Aligned Movement/Critical Movement Residency

Research residency with Nina Gojić, Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev

April 16 – 24, 2022

@ Mladinski Kulturen Centar/MKC (Youth Cultural Center)

 

Lokomotiva is hosting Critical Movement Residency that is aimed to support collaboration in the field of dance and choreography with the dramaturg Nina Gojić and choreographers and performers Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev.

This residence will investigate the choreography and dance practices of the authors active in the region, throughout the process of discussion, thinking and writing together. Their work and research intend to deepen the choreographic processes through dramaturgical collaboration and sharing.

During the residency four authors will also meet local artists and cultural workers and will extend their collaborative network.

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“Co-teaching: dots of sheltering bodies” kultrening with Viktorija Ilioska and Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld

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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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