Critical Movement Residency with Nina Gojić, Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev

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(Non)Aligned Movement/Critical Movement Residency

Research residency with Nina Gojić, Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev

April 16 – 24, 2022

@ Mladinski Kulturen Centar/MKC (Youth Cultural Center)

Lokomotiva is hosting Critical Movement Residency that is aimed to support collaboration in the field of dance and choreography with the dramaturg Nina Gojić and choreographers and performers Darío Barreto Damas, Viktorija Ilioska, and Aleksandar Georgiev.

This residence will investigate the choreography and dance practices of the authors active in the region, throughout the process of discussion, thinking and writing together. Their work and research intend to deepen the choreographic processes through dramaturgical collaboration and sharing.

During the residency four authors will also meet local artists and cultural workers and will extend their collaborative network.

POETIC BODIES research residence by Zhana Pencheva

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Research residence and presentation

POETIC BODIES with Zhana Pencheva

11-15th April 2022

@ Youth Cultural Center

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) together with Lokomotiva – Center for a new initiative in art and culture, in the period from 11 to 15 April 2022 organized the research residence of the program line of POETRY BODIES, led by Zana Penceva. During the selection process Iskra Prodanova artist, Jovana Zajkova, dance artist, Jovan Gakovski, artist and performer, and Kiril Gjorevski were selected and contributed and shared their practices in Youth Cultural Centre in Skopje, North Macedonia. POETIC BODIES is a program line that offers the infrastructure to dig into an artistic interest or topic under the frame of situation. ICC proposes a situation as a short research guided by a specific artist who is joined by professionals from the field from the region under the role of co-researchers. A situation takes place throughout a working week.

Premiere of “Dance baby, dance” by Zhana Pencheva in the Youth Cultural Center

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Art Politics Institution Body/ Premiere of the choreographic work

“Dance baby, dance” by Zhana Pencheva

April 11th, 2022, 20:00

@ Youth Cultural Center

Dance baby, dance is work of a choreographic research focused on the relational potentialities that can occur when people come together and dance.

Work is seen as a choreographic concert with specific pathways and internal rules, where 6 kinetic/dancing bodies go through a variety of situations – flirtation, mystery, transparency, illogicality, irritability and other sensitive spaces.

The concert is submerged in a party-club-like atmosphere and showered with contemporary electronic and pop music.

Open Call for the Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022

Happy to announce that you can apply now, on the

Open call for the Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022

29th of August – 3rd of September 2022 @ Struga, North Macedonia

3rd of October – 7th of October @ Online

7th of November – 17th of November @ Online

International School Curating in Context that was organised online by LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, and co-curated by Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski and Slavcho Dimitrov in 2019 and 2020, this year, will be happening in Struga, North Macedonia, as part of the Open Course “Curatorial Practice and Context” 2022 organized by Stockholm University of the Arts, in collaboration with Lokomotiva.

“Morning Choreographic Concerts” (MCC) with Zhana Pencheva

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Workshop

“Morning Choreographic Concerts” (MCC) with Zhana Pencheva

11-15th April 2022, 10:00 – 11:00 h

@ DMBUC “Ilija Nikolovski – Luj” -Skopje

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) together with Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Arts and Culture organize Morning Choreographic Concerts (MCC) led by Zhana Pencheva from 11th – 15th April 2022 in Skopje. The MCC are free of charge.

About MCC:

MCC is 5 day morning training where we will meet for one hour and celebrate dancing together through different body practices and music varieties.

OPEN CALL: POETIC BODIES #ZhanaPencheva

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Research residence

OPEN CALL: POETIC BODIES with Zhana Pencheva

11-15th April 2022, 11:00 – 16:00 h

@ Youth Cultural Center

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) together with Lokomotiva – Center for New Initiative in Arts and Culture, launches an open call to select 3 ARTISTS (co-researches) to participate in ICC program line POETIC BODIES, this time led by Zhana Pencheva, in Skopje, North Macedonia. Co-researchers artists will be paid for their engagement.

About POETIC BODIES:

POETIC BODIES is a program line that offers the infrastructure to dig into an artistic interest or topic under the frame of situation. ICC proposes a situation as a short research guided by a specific artist who is joined by professionals from the field from the region under the role of co-researchers. A situation takes place throughout a working week.

Workshop: Preserving place and space for marginalized belongings through culture, heritage and arts

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Contemporary Culture and Public Policies/ Workshop

Preserving place and space for marginalized belongings through culture, heritage and arts

University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (N. Macedonia) and Cultural Heritage Without Borders (Albania)

Participants: Dea Vidović, Francesca Gotti, Francesca Sabatini, Ana Žuvela, Hanna Szemzö, Laura Tapini, Peter Dragoev, Lea Vroman, Carole Debuck Luka Knežević- Strika, Artan Sadiku, Jasmina Bilalovikj, Ivo Krug, Flaka Xerxa Beqiri, Ivana Vaseva, Filip Jovanovski, Irena Ružin
Chairs: Claske Vos, Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski and Ana Žuvela

23, 24 March 2022

@ Upper foyer Kino Frosina, Youth Cultural Center

All across Europe, and in particularly in urban settings, public places and spaces of belonging as well as public goods have come under pressure. Even though the existence of open and inclusive public spaces has long been recognised as a key factor for promoting the development of more sustainable and resilient urban societies, several developments such as neoliberal policies of privatisation, deregulation and liberalisation and rising xenophobia have hindered the preservation of such spaces. In these times in which inclusive public places and spaces are shrinking, the culture, heritage and arts sector has become central in the creation of spaces in which the general public can channel its dissatisfaction, alternatives can be shown and creativity and free thought be expressed. Several initiatives have been developed with as it main aim to create ‘concrete utopia’s’ – concrete action towards the anticipation of the not-yet. By developing new forms of governance, places and spaces for alternative engagement are provided safeguarded which allow for the continued existence of marginalized belongings.

“Urban Gardens: Connective Tissues”, process project by Ana Lazarevska

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ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other Spaces

“Urban Gardens: Connective Tissues” durational project by Ana Lazarevska

Friday, December 24, 2021/ 4 pm-6 pm,

@ Greenhouse, Faculty of Pedagogy, Skopje

In this development/process project, Ana Lazarevska presents part of her research which is based on careful and unrushed observation of nature and society, their functions, relations, and ways of functioning as a system. She compares them to the system by which the human body functions, which exists in its complexity as nature does, which depends on the functionality of the organs, their connection, the environment in which it develops and lives, depends on external influences, trauma, safe keeping, love , care, etc. By deconstructing the body, she reflects on the process of creating and on the bodies and systems in which they function, i.e. how cells combine to form tissues, tissues to form organs, and organs to form organisms that exist in systems – social systems and ecosystems.

“Queer and feminist dance practices”, online workshop

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Cooperation between Cultural Workers and Artists from the USA and the Balkans

Queer and feminist dance practices/ Online Workshop

Monday, December 20, 2021/ 17.00 CET/ 11.00 ET

Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) are developing collaboration that will gather artists from USA and Balkans who define them and their work as queer, each in their specific artistic perspective. During the collaboration we will try to explore diverse practices among themselves, as artists and cultural workers, also bringing closer local perspectives and situations in which such work appear and it is developed.
Collaboration will be developed through formats of online and live gatherings in Skopje and New York.

Critical Practice (Made in Yu) / Seminar 2021

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Critical practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Seminar 2021

Conceived and led by Ana Vujanović

13 – 17 December 2021

The initial seminar of the new cycle of the Critical Practice (Made in YU) program will focus on recent critical discourses in performing arts and culture, coming from the cultural space of Yugoslavia. We will combine different formats of work: discussions of assigned readings, interviews with invited authors, and internal group work meetings / talks.
The seminar is followed with a reading list proposed by Ana Vujanović; the texts selected to be discussed or talked about with invited authors are to be read in advance.
The seminar is supposed to result in a new reading list, composed of the texts proposed by the participants. Further seminar-like situations will be self-organized.