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.
AS PART OF THE (NON) ALIGNED MOVEMENTS PROJECT, THE NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY (NDA) IS EXCITED TO PRESENT ITS SUMMER SUMMIT FROM AUGUST 20TH TO AUGUST 29TH, 2023, IN BERLIN! Check program in details here.
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Queer body programme/ Stage Performance Workshop with Simona Spirovska
June 20, 2023, 18:00
@ Socio-cultural centre Komitet
LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture the third year in the continuation organizes the program Queer body programme with the aim to enable the space for creating, sharing, and producing queer culture. The local community will have the opportunity to share their experiences with international and local artists and collaborators in opening new spaces and forms for the expression and development of dreg culture.
In the frame of the Queer body programme, Lokomotiva organizes several open workshops of lip-syncing, live singing, dance, and performance with the community, aiming to support the development of the movements and “bodies of resistance” as part of the culture. This project was created to encourage and give visibility to the local culture and its members.
The open series of workshops and performances will be led by the artists themselves Dario Barretto Damas (known as Irma Swan), Aleksandar Georgiev (known as Tita Extra Vita), Jana Jakimovska (known as Linda Socialista), Simona Spirovska an actor, dancer and performer, and Maja Milanova make-up artist. The artists, actors, and artists, with the participants will explore the various practices related to culture and togetherness.
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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Queer body programme/ Workshop with drag performer Linda Socialista
Be Pyg(ay)malion and create your Gaylatheia!
Јune 15, 2023, 18:00 @ KOMITET
LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture in collaboration with the socio-cultural center Komitet, third year in the continuation organizes the program Queer body programme with aim to enable the space for creating, sharing and producing drag and queer culture. The local community will have the opportunity to share their experiences with international and local artists and collaborators and open new spaces and forms for the expression and development of drag culture…
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?
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In the frame of the Queer body programme, Lokomotiva organizes several open workshops of lip-syncing, live singing, dance and performance with the drag community, aiming to support the development of the movements and “bodies of resistance” as part of the drag culture. This project was created to encourage and give the visibility of the local drag culture and its members.
The open series of workshops and performances with drag artists, actors and artists, will be led by the drag artists themselves Dario Barretto Damas (known as Irma Swan), Aleksandar Georgiev (known as Tita Extra Vita), Jana Jakimovska (known as Linda Socialista), Simona Spirovska an actress, dancer and performer and Maja Milanova make-up artist and with the participants together will explore the various practices related to the culture.
Lokomotiva announces: Summerlab Skopje, 2023, happening from 4 – 9th June in Skopje.
The theme of the summer lab will be related to public spaces, more specifically to the designated and planned ‘empty spaces’ in the city, or the so-called negative space in urbanism.
The summer lab will take the participants trough the parts of the city where those ‘empty spaces’ remain and those which are misused and reformed in places for private matters.
See the full program of the Summerlab Skopje 2023 HERE.
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.
