Art::Politics::Institution::Body

macedonian below>>>> *** The performance "MAKE IT MAKE IT- DON’T FAKE IT!" is part of the program "Arts, Politics, Institutions and Body" as part of the PLATFORM(a) 2018 -Program for Contemporary Performing Arts, organised by Lokomotiva - Skopje. MAKE IT, MAKE IT, DON’T FAKE IT! Concept & Performance: Darko Dragičević, Esta Matković, Vanja Smiljanić Dramaturgy: Jasmina Založnik Choreographic consultant: Martin Sonderkamp Coproduction: Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture and Nomad Dance Academy in frame of Life Long Burning Project Supported by: Culture programme of the European Commission, Quartier am Hafen (Cologne), JSKD – Public fund of Republic of Slovenia for cultural activities and STATION Service for contemporary dance Belgrade “Why castigate these creatures Whose angelic features Are bumping and grinding on trash? Are they not spawned by our greed? Are they not our true seed? Are they not what we’ve b

macedonian below>> *** With the performance "me again- but not alone", starts the program "Arts, Politics, Institutions and Body" as part of the PLATFORM(a) 2018 -Program for Contemporary Performing Arts, organised by Lokomotiva - Skopje. me again – but not alone 20 years are gone. The encounter with the musicians Gebrüder Teichmann brought Gisela Müller back on stage. me again – but not alone is a try out performance and an attempt to create a space of resonance where movement and sound converge. A space of exchange and of dialogue where the movement (dance) embodies sound and the sound picks up movement (dance). An interaction of tables, the dance floor and the players which might even lead to a battle. Concept: Gisela Müller and Gebrüder Teichmann Performance: Gisela Müller, Hannes + Andi Teichmann A production by Tanzfabrik Berlin in cooperation with Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and Goethe Institute Location: KINO KULTURA Start: 20:00 Free

PLATFORM(a) is a new program of Lokomotiva, part of the Kino Kultura space for contemporary arts and culture, and a new step forward in our efforts to enhance development in the contemporary performing arts context in Macedonia. Lokomotiva has been organizing the Locomotion Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance for the past eight years; this year however, we decided to stop the festival since we had been facing various obstacles in the past period. Such are, among many others, the financial difficulties as well as the sub- standard working conditions, which seriously impede our ability to plan and to program strategically, instead forcing us to act more tactically and react fast.Therefore, we came to the decision to extend the event of festival into an ongoing program, a Platform(a) for contemporary performing arts that would allow us tactical planning and action, and also presentation –when possible– of different activities in the field of contemporary performing arts, real