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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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Choreographed bodies programme/ 47. MOT Festival
Premiere of the dance performance
“I need a new body”
16.11.2022, 20 h
@ Dancing Hall, MKC
Tikets here
Concept and choreography: Viktorija Ilioska in conversation with Nastya Dzyuban, Laura Stellacci
Performance: Viktorija Ilioska and Nastya Dzyuban
Voices: Amélie Haller and Maren Küpper
In a world where we enjoy a fake image of endless resources, where we sucked the earth to draw out the last bits, how do we continue to pump? The operation of pumping, that is, moving matters from one location to another, seems to be at the core of most vital processes of both production and reproduction. We draw, suck, elicit, and drain the earth’s body to enrich our lives on it, emptying our future(s). At the same time, we suck, boost, inject and inflate our bodies, transgressing their capacities. Pumping can paradoxically be at the same time capitalist practice of exhaustion as well as the feminist practice of enrichment and enhancement. Once pumped on one side, the other one is being sucked. Perhaps, eventually this piece will be busy with wasting, emptying and exhausting. One thing is certain, “I need a new body” will take place in-between: between a body as an exhibition and a body as a resource while looking at the place where these two intersect.
(Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning: precarious story-sharing
Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits, Maša Radi Buh
November 3, 2022
Conference of Academies at PAF-Performing Arts Forum
(an encounter on politics and the relevant urgencies within the academic and professional performing arts field initiated by Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo)
28th September – 2nd October 2022, St Erme, France
(Co)thinking, (co)doing & ongoing (co)questioning: precarious story-sharing
Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits and Masa Radi Buh
(invited to PAF and mentored by Ana Vujanović in the frame of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) program)
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LOКOMOTIVА APIB program/ Exhibitionѕ
Simona Mancheva “Criminal acts against life and body”
Zorica Zafirovska “Invisibility of presence”
November 10 and 11, 2022
@ Museum Gallery Kavadartsi
“Criminal acts against life and body” by Simona Mancheva and “Invisibility of presence” by Zorica Zafirovska were created as part of the Art Institution Body Politics/APIB program of Lokomotiva, which supports the research artistic process of these two artists during one year. Within the framework of this program Lokomotiva deals with critical considerations in the artistic field, and the socio-political economic, environmental and other influences on and in it. With this aim, it opens joint processes with cultural workers and artists and provides space for thinking, acting and creating. The artists had the opportunity to expand their research and formulate it in their own works that will be exhibited on 11.11.2022 at the Kavadartsi Gallery Museum.
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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop
“Emotional dance tools“ with Boban Ruseski
November 5th, 13:00-15:00 h
@ Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center
Lokomotiva, Skopje is organising the third KULTRENING choreography and dance workshop with the dancer and choreographer Boban Ruseski.
Sign up by email at kultrening@gmail.com till 04.11.2022, the number of participants is limited.
The workshop “Emotional dance tools“ with Boban Ruseski will enable the participants to familiarize themselves about possibilities of bodily engaging movements and tools for creating and staging their own choreographies.
The workshop is divided in two parts, the first part is a warm-up and study of floor technique, followed by the development and continuation of work on the choreographic work “Social Criticism”, a work by Boban Ruseski staged in 2019. (for the festival for young choreographers “DanceLab” with one dancer, in 2020 at the dance festival “Tanс Fest” the same piece was reworked with an added vocalist and actor on the stage itself and is titled “Jas&Sara – Social Criticism”, in 2022. The dance festival “Dance Fest” is staged with a new line-up, namely three dancers and is titled “Social Criticism” with the music by Martin Modent, costume design by Mite Zanov, visual artist Iva Stankovska).
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Art Institution Politics Body/ MOT + Programme
SCREENSAVER
A choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev
4th November, 2022 @ 20.00
Hey dear. Bring your presence right here and invite everyone to your memory, your imagination, your daydreaming, to the stories that start with “what if”. While doing so be gracefully stable, not necessarily peaceful, most probably busy, but absolutely graceful, amused with the signals of satisfaction risen when you get stuck in movement loops which slightly rock your flesh and organs, or when, with a cultured alongué and its invisible but tangible traces from which flowers raise up, you send information and data that conquers the room, as if a rose´s essence hits you while walking your favourite street.
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Choreographed Bodies/ MOT + Programme
“seguir moviendo”
choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas
November 3, 2022, 21.00 h
this whole text fails repeatedly with no hope for ever-not failing: through a flux of specific whateverness, incipient multiplicity.* to shift the ground that moves you, suspending. yet the baroque twists and turns its fold, pushing them to infinity, fold over fold.* it has been happening for 12.6 billion years. it goes very well with what you know you know. transitoria y fugaz. a disjointed, a nomad lost in a kind of irreducible odyssey…with the aimless conviction that every movement will fail to find a destination, a «good reading», a valid interpretation.* fogging its own edges. piensa, con oído. is it this? i ask. more or less, more or less, ambiguous, not a clear thing. from on-going morphing, disappearing, to dissolution, to stardust (and in reverse, upside down and disordered) (again). aware of what it is not yet and what it could be soon or not. in approximately 4.7533108 x 10-8 millenniums a whistle will take over the space.
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Choreographed Bodies/ MOT + Programme
Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy
Choreography and performance by Aleksandra Petrushevska
November 3, 2022, 19.30 h
@ Dancing Hall, MKC
tickets here
Block tickets for both performances here
Description of the piece:
“Cold Air” is an ode to the female fantasy and an invitation to come closer to the fragile and vulnerable female inner world.
Air is invisible, but when cold, the eyes can grasp it.
With every breath I keep track of time. I whisper to myself, “I am still alive.”
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3rd November, 2022
Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy by Aleksandra Petrushevska
tickets 19.30 here
seguir moviendo by Darío Bardam
tickets 21.00 here
Block tickets for both performances here
4th November, 2022 @ 20.00
SCREENSAVER by Aleksandar Georgiev
tickets here
@ Dancing Hall, MKC
https://mkc.mk/
The MOT + program is part of a collaboration between Lokomotiva and MOT, and is part of an ongoing process of a several-year-long mutual endeavour to bring to the Macedonian audience a view of the latest local, regional and international dance and performance productions affiliated with the Lokomotiva program, which aims to position dance as a socially and politically relevant artistic form enabling diverse bodies in dance to distract, affect, extend or amplify our view on dance and performance. The three performances will give us a view of the latest works of exquisite artists Aleksandra Petrushevska, Darío Bardam and Aleksandar Georgiev, who collaborated with Lokomotiva over the past year and now premiere their pieces at MOT+. Their artistic contribution to our scene is not only aesthetic, but socio-political in their shared labour and contribution of resources during the production process. United and collectively, we are creating in this program the possibility to develop our contemporary dance and performance scene, and this collaboration is a step forward to make it possible and accessible.
Curating in Context Summer School
Struga, North Macedonia
August 29 – September 5, 2022
“Con-texts: the curatorial, the lake, the writing bodies and bodies of water”
Few notes from Struga Summer School / a collective diary of sharing thoughts
Anka Herbut, Elena Novakovits, Jette Buchsenschutz, Kasia Wolinska, Maeve Johnson, Masa Radi Buh
Where is your body now? How does it feel?
Cause my body, for instance, is trying to recall and tune in to the feeling it experienced when the above questions were introduced at the very beginning of the Summer School in Struga. We were sitting on a sunny terrace in a circle, facing each other, trying to return to our bodies in order to feel what we’re coming with, what we could bring into the collective process that was just about to begin, what we were ready (or not) to share. My body came to Struga quite overwhelmed by holidays which actually were not so holidayish, but instead they were rich in deadlines, taking care for others and no-time-to-loose-tasks. So my body was somewhere in between tightening muscles there on the nape of my neck, and a relief dissolving my tension thanks to the fresh waters of the primeval Ohrid Lake – a slowing-down teaser promising to experience something here.
