Research residency “Connective Tissue” with Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev

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(Non)Aligned Movement/ Critical Movement Residency/ Contemporary choreography and dance

“Connective Tissue” presentation by Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev

November 18, 2021, 18:00 h presentation

November 14 – 21, 2021, residency stay

@ Mandolin orchestra, Youth Cultural Centre

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

In the following period, Lokomotiva will be the host of this year’s choreographic research team of the (Non)Aligned Movements project: Viktorija Ilioska, Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld and Aleksandar Georgiev, and provide a space for their research work, public presentation on 19th of November, as well as their exchange with the local scene.

Residency research production of a choreographic work “A Womb for an Adult” by Viktorija Ilioska

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ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Other Spaces

“A Womb for an Adult” production residency by Viktorija Ilioska

10th – 21st November 2021

@ Youth Cultural Centre

As part of the program Other Spaces, Lokomotiva creates a space for production, creation of knowledge and reflection on diverse issues concerning our future and topics related to social justice, the environment, post humanity, the Anthropocene, cultural policies, queer and feminist issues, etc. In that regard, we are supporting Viktorija Ilioska, a performer and choreographer who will work in Skopje on the development of her piece A Womb for an Adult in the period between November 10 and November 21. The research, which started in Germany and was partially developed in Skopje during the summer, will have its final stage of development in Skopje and later its premiere at the Theater Neben Dem Turm, Marburg on December 10 and 11 (TNT https://www.theaternebendemturm.de/).

“S-Hall“ kultrening with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas

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Kultrening / Choreography and dance workshop

“S-Hall“ with Aleksandar Georgiev together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas

November 11, 11:00 – 12:30 h

@ Mandolin orchestra, Youth Cultural Center

Join our free classes and workshops in YCC and follow the announcements on our pages.

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

Aleksandar together with Zhana Pencheva and Dario Barreto Damas would like to invite you to KULTRENING to share their fascination with dance and choreography through approaching the mechanisms of dance practice that he called “S-Hall”.

“The Power of S“ production residency by the choreographer Aleksandar Georgiev

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Art, Politics, Institution, Body – APIB/ Residency

“The Power of S“ production and reserch residency by Aleksandar Georgiev together with Dario Barreto Damas and Zana Penceva

November 1-13, 2021

@ Mandolin orchestra, Youth Cultural Center

The production residency “The Power of S“ is a choreography research project by the choreographer Aleksandar Georgiev developed within Art, Politics, Institution, Body programme of Lokomotiva produced in collaboration with Youth Cultural Center and it will be taking place between 1-13 November 2021 in Skopje.

Final meetings and conference “How to do things with Context?” In Zagreb, as part of the project Curating in Context

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Curating in Context/ Strategic group meeting/ Learning Teaching Training

“How to do things with Context?” – conference

19 October – 21 October 2021/ 22 & 23 October 2021

@ MAMA – Multimedia Institute, and @ POGON – Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth

In organization of Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb

Representatives and invited collaborators from Lokomotiva, one of the partners of CURATING in CONTEXT, an Erasmus+ project, attended the Strategic group and Learning Teaching Training program meetings, in the period between the 19th and 24th of October 2021, organised and hosted by Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. Representatives of Lokomotiva, Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, Blagica Petrova, Zorica Zafirovska and Slavcho Dimitrov, attended the meetings in person, but also invited collaborators were following the hybrid meeting online.

“Ecological turn in culture: Imagining cultural professions beyond sustainable development and greening” lecture by Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka

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ACT: Art, climate, transition/ Other spaces

“Ecological turn in culture: Imagining cultural professions beyond sustainable development and greening”

Lecture by Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka
Thursday, 7 2021, 19:00 CET

The lecture will be followed by a discussion, both in the English language, and will have live streaming, which you join on the Lokomotiva Facebook page and the page of the event.

All dance professionals and others join the EDN Online Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience”

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European Dancehouse Network/ Online Forum

“Are you here? Dance and its audience”

October 12, 2021

Organized by EDN, The Place and Saddler’s Wells

Lokomotiva, Skopje as one of the members of European Dancehouse Network is inviting you to join the EDN Online Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience” is the online event open to all dance professionals and others who would like to delve into the complexities of the relationship between dance and its audience.

Join us online on 12 October 2021!

European Dancehouse Network together with The Place and Saddler’s Wells organize EDN Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience”.

Online Promotion of the video: “We vote!”

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Co-colaboration programme/ Research and video production

“We vote!”/ Online promotion

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

produced in collaboration with Civil

The video We vote!, is a result of the cooperation of the organizations Lokomotiva – Center for New Initiatives in Art and Culture, and CIVIL – Center for Freedom. The cooperation of these two organizations, one in the field of art, the other working in the field of human rights and freedoms was realized as part of the Election Health Check project organized by the non-governmental organization Unhack Democracy from Hungary, with the support of the Fund for Culture of Solidarity of the European Cultural Foundation and Friedrich Neumann Foundation for Freedom.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia)

Open Call for Applications

Deadline: October 11, 2021

Mentors of the programme: Ana Vujanović, Marijana Cvetković and Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski.

This edition of the programme is part of the apap – Feminist Futures project that addresses inequality in the contemporary performing arts field, using the body of thought consolidated by the term Intersectional Feminism to find concrete structural answers and raise public awareness. Through its Feminist Futures Festival, Feminist school and other programmes it will offer the participants of the Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia) a space for learning, producing and collaborating.

THE ULTIMATE – open queer and drag workshops with Aleksandar Georgiev and Darío Bardam

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Contemporary choreography and dance/ Queer body/ Workshop

THE ULTIMATE– second edition by Aleksandar Georgiev and Darío Barreto Damas

September 22-24, 2021

@ Kino Frosina, Youth cultural center

Due to compliance with the 19 protocols, it is necessary to present a vaccination certificate or a certificate of eligibility with a validity of not older than 45 days.

Lokomotiva is organizing THE ULTIMATE – the second part of the series of open queer and drag workshops with Aleksandar Georgiev and Darío Bardam in Skopje that will happen in Kino Frosina where we will have the opportunity to share and open new spaces and forms of expression and grow the drag culture…