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.

Art Institution Politics Body/ Exhibition of Simona Mancheva and Zorica Zafirovska at Museum Gallery Kavadartsi

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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

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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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SCREENSAVER choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev in the space of MKC

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Art Institution Politics Body/ MOT + Programme

SCREENSAVER

A choreographic work by Aleksandar Georgiev

4th November, 2022 @ 20.00

@ Dancing Hall, MKC

 

tickets here

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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“seguir moviendo” choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas in the space of MKC

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Choreographed Bodies/ MOT + Programme

“seguir moviendo” 

choreographic work by Darío Barreto Damas

November 3, 2022, 21.00 h

@ Dancing Hall, MKC
tickets here
Block tickets for both performances here

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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Cold Air ::: An ode to female fantasy by Aleksandra Petrushevska in the space of MKC

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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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Three performances as part of the MOT + program аt MKC

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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

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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.

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Critical practice for “Curatorial practice in context”

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.

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Art Institution Politics Body/ Queer body “THE ULTIMATE” – a series of workshops with drag performers

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Art Institution Politics Body/ Queer body

“THE ULTIMATE” – a series of workshops with drag performers

November 01-05, 2022, 5:00 p.m

November 25-30, 2022, 6:00 p.m

November 26, 2022 8:00 p.m performances

@ Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts & Socio-cultural center KOMITET

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje, in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts, and the socio-cultural center Komitet organizes THE ULTIMATE – a series of open workshops and performances for drag and queer culture.

This week November 01-05, 2022, 5:00 p.m. in the space KOMITET we will have the opportunity to share our experiences with local and future drag queens and open new spaces and forms for the expression and growth of drag culture…

In the next scheduled period November 25-30, we will work together with Jana Jakimovska on personal drag comedy act.

 

The series of workshops and performances with drag artists, Ultimate #2 second year in the row 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), Jovan Gakovski and others together will explore the various practices related to this culture.

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop “My body, my home“ with Hristina Angelovska

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Kultrening/ Choreography and dance workshop

“My body, my home“ with Hristina Angelovska

November 1, 19:00-21:00 h

@ Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

 

Lokomotiva is organising the third KULTRENING choreography and dance workshop with Hristina Angelovska.

Sign up by email at kultrening@gmail.com till October 31, 2022, the number of participants is limited.

The workshop “My body, my home“ with Hristina Angelovska will encouragе free movements enabling the participants to present themselves in the way they want and want to be recognized.

The workshop will be conducted according to principle that each participants can create movements, define a relationship and the freedom in it, everyone can breathe freely and move as long as they need it. Anyone can start and stop whenever they want, they just need to have a strong enough reason to do so.

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

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“Socio-Political Agency of Contemporary Dance:

USA-Balkan Exchange: Practice and Discourse Sharing Laboratory“

with Thomas F. DeFrantz, Kathy Westwater, Andros Zins-Browne,

Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski, Viktorija Ilioska, Jovana Zajkova,

Tereza Lazarev and Theodora Ezhovska

October 17- 31 2022 @ Sofia, Belgrade and Skopje

Organized by The Chocolate Theatеr (New York), New Dramaturgies Platform (Sofia),

 Lokomotiva – Centre for new initiatives in arts and culture (Skopje), 

Stanica/Station Service for contemporary dance (Belgrade), Movement Research Inc. (New York)

 

In challenging social and political times of turbulence on so many levels of private and public life, the realms of politics and the political as mechanisms for regulating and negotiating common living come to the fore. As other areas of human activity, performing arts and dance in particular, which function within the larger picture of the social order, also insist on being thought through this perspective, inevitable in conditions of crisis.

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