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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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GPS/Global Practice Sharing exchange program/ Lecture and workshop

“Channels of Feeling” with Justin Cabrillos (USA)

Lokomotiva in collaboration with GPS, Movement Research, New York and Station- Service for Contemporary dance, Belgrade

03-04 October 2022 @ Youth Cultural Center, Skopje

LOKOMOTIVA – center for new initiatives in culture and art from Skopje in cooperation with Movement Research from New York, on October 4th (Tuesday), in the hall “25 May” in the Youth Cultural Center, starting at 11.00 am, organizes a workshop with Justin Cabrillos, a choreographer, artist and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn. In addition to the workshop, Justin Cabrillos will also hold a lecture for the students of the dance department at “Goce Delchev” University.

The workshop “Channels of Feeling” held together with local choreographers and dancers Aleksandra Petrushevska, Jovana Zajkova, Tereza Lazarev and Boban Ruseski explores how emotions circulate through the body and is intended for performers with and without experience. The participants, along with Justin, will move using imagery, meditation and tasks that encourage different ways of perceiving and embodying emotional states and unnameable sensations. The practical exercises will emphasize how we can individually connect with the different emotions and feelings that are stored in our bodies. The aim of the workshop is to separate the emotions from the physical, to discover alternative ways of moving and how to exist in parallel with these emotions.

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Lokomotiva in collaboration with GPS, Movement Research, New York and Station- Service for Contemporary dance, Belgrade

Residency “Dance in (non) democracy” with Justin Cabrillos (USA), Sam Kim (USA), Jovana Rakić (SRB) and Aleksandra Petrushevska (MK)

Curators: Marijana Cvetković (SRB) and Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski (MK)

26 September – 05 November, 2022 @ Belgrade & Skopje

Title of the residency “Dance in (non)democracy” is thought as a trigger for collective reflection on the practices and roles of dance artists in social and political situations in which they are faced with partial or complete damage of democratic social protocols and institutions. In a small lab format artists will talk about their practices in those directions, exchange, give and take, and aerate their permanent care for their social/artistic/political context.
A week together in Belgrade and in Skopje is meant to be a place for critical thinking and mutual support.

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