Author: lokomotiva

Lokomotiva ::: Independently curated programme which is based on collaboration with artists working with live arts, or dance, choreography and performance. Program is supporting research and production of art and knowledge through residencies, productions of dance, lectures-presentations, conferences, workshops, symposiums etc., in which certain problems in the field are reflected, reassessed and critically reconsidered.

THE ULTIMATE #3 – a workshop with drag performers

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Queer body program/ Dance and choreography workshop
THE ULTIMATE #3 – with drag performers Irma Swan and Tita Extra Vita
06/06/2022, 18:00
Комитет / 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…

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.

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Summerlab Skopje, 2023 – Public Negative Spaces

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.

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Socio-Political Agency of Contemporary Dance: USA-Balkan Exchange: Practice and Discourse Sharing Laboratory in New York

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.

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EDN Atelier: “The Body of Skill and Opportunity: Equity Through Embodied Practices”

Dansateliers and ICK Dans hosted an EDN Atelier connected to the Moving Futures Festival in Rotterdam and Amsterdam

Teodora Ezovska, artist from North Macedonia, supported by Lokomotiva joined a 3-day Atelier to explore different approaches to equity as an integral part of dance practices.

The Atelier is co-organised by Dansateliers Rotterdam and ICK Dans Amsterdam and takes place in Rotterdam on 17 – 18 May, 2023 and in Amsterdam on 19 May during the Moving Futures festival.

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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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Exhibition „Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia“at Gallery MC in New York

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„Ecstatic Bodies: Archive of Performative Queer Bodies in Macedonia“

– Exhibition –

Curators: Slavcho Dimitrov and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski

@Gallery MC (549 West 52nd Street, 8th Floor (Between 10th and 11th Avenue), New York

Opening: 5th of May, 20.00 h.

as part of the program of 30 years of the Republic of North Macedonia in the United Nations and 30 years of the OSCE-UN framework agreement, 03 – 05 May 2023

 

with (selection on the occasion of this presentation): Nora Stojanovic | Milosh Kodzoman and Dragoljub Bezan| Hristina Ivanoska | Velimir Zernovski |Yane Chalovski | Natasha Geleva | STEAM ROOM | Mirko Popov | Zoran Ristevski-Bajbe | Ivana Dragsic | Sonja Ismail | FRIK Festival | First Born Girl | Skopje Pride Weekend|

Organizers: Coalition MARGINS Skopje, LGBTI Support Center, and Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Arts and Culture

Production team: Emilija Chochkova and Ljubomir Faizov

Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia

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Second dance performance of “I Need A New Body” at the Dancing Hall, MKC

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Choreographed bodies programme/ MOT+

Second dance performance of 

“I Need a New Body”

21.04.2023, 19:00 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

 

Tikets here

 

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

Performance: Viktorija Ilioska and Nastya Dzyuban

Voices: Amélie Haller and Maren Küpper

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How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene? – performing arts scene meetings in Skopje

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How do we work in the (independent) performing arts scene?

ONDA meeting local performing arts scene

20.04 – 23.04.2023

@  MKC, Skopje

 

Lokomotiva in collaboration with ONDA, as part of its interdisciplinary program, with the aim to encounter the Macedonian contemporary performing arts scene with 25 curators from diverse theatres and festivals in France, is organizing and curating from 20-23 of April, 2023 in Skopje a program that includes performances, artists talks, discussions and meetings.

The French curators will have an opportunity to meet with the artists and talk about the actual performances, processes of development of the ideas, as well as with the larger scene on topics related to the working conditions, policies and politics in which they operate locally and internationally, how are the spaces for performing arts organized, production facilities, distribution of the performances in the country and internationally. Lokomotiva will also raise the issue of whether we need an institution on contemporary performing arts?

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20 years of LOKOMOTIVA

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It’s been 20 years of coexistence of the community called Lokomotiva which was, not so peacefully, steering and sailing through our macadams… but still, if we look back to some point in 2003, we see a path, a very colorful one, full of sound, filled with lots of art, breaking lances, different crosswinds, more art, conversations, laughter, research, various challenges, struggles, victories, many lessons learned, communities created, spaces and changes we wanted…
A long journey is yet ahead of us, but this year, we will take a little break to say thank you to all of us who see ourselves as part of that coexistence, as collaborators, as audience and as friends, as those without whom Lokomotiva would never have been possible.
We want to dedicate this year to what that coexistence was based on for the past 20 years, i.e. to what makes Lokomotiva what it is – the collaborations here, in the region and beyond, research in art and cultural policies, commitment to the production and presentation of contemporary art , advocating for the needs of artists and cultural workers, creating new thinking spaces and discursive perspectives, new pedagogies and methods of how we learn together, how we build the community through solidarity and spaces where we create and coexist…

Thanks to Ana Jovanovska who is behind the design of this jubilee.

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Collaboration LOKOMOTIVA – PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON

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Collaboration LOKOMOTIVA – PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON

February 09-14, 2023

@Lokomotiva Skopje

During five days, from 9-14 of February, Maricruz Peñaloza, a curator from the PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2023 in Zurich (https://performancereihe.com) visited Skopje and Lokomotiva, since she invited Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski to co-curate the 14th edition of the festival. They met artists from the country, as well as cultural workers that will be presented on the festival that will be held in Zurich in September, 2023.

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