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.

Our artist Viktorija Ilioska from Lokomotiva, together with Vassiliya Drebova (Bulgaria), and Jovana Rakić (Serbia) were participating in the USA-Balkan Exchange: Practice and Discourse
Sharing Laboratory The project’s main objective is to explore contemporary dance at the intersection with the political and to enhance the awareness of the socio-political agency of artists and their practices. Through a practice and discourse sharing laboratory at The Chocolate Factory Theater, artists and theoreticians/curators from Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, and the United States reflect on their work through the perspective of its inherent politics. During the exchange in NYC, the three Balkan artists will work with three NYC-based artists – Martita Abril, Justin Cabrillos, and Moriah Evans – and three cultural theorists – Marijana Cvetkovic (Serbia), Biljana Tanurovska (North Macedonia), and Mira Todorova (Bulgaria). Following the lab, the Balkan artists have a weeklong residency at Movement Research, taking classes and rehearsing in the studios.

Check more about the public activity GPS talks here: https://movementresearch.org/event/18779

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The international project “Socio-Political Agency of Contemporary Dance. USA-Balkan Exchange:
Practice and Discourse Sharing Laboratory“ in New York is implemented with the financial support of
Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

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