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 Nomad Dance Academy Launch of NOMAD Education Program Balkan Dance Network partners: Fičo Balet – Ljubljana, Eks Scena – Zagreb, Tala Dance Center - Zagreb, Station - Service for contemporary dance - Belgrade, Lokomotiva - Center for new initiatives in arts and culture - Skopje, Brain Store Project – Sofia launch the first phase of NOMAD Education Program which will start on 16th March 2008. NOMAD’s route 16th March – 31st March - Skopje 1st April – 14th April - Sofia 15th April – 8th May - Belgrade 9th May – 24th May - Zagreb 25th May – 31 May - Piran 1st - 9th June - Ljubljana First generation of NOMAD students: Ivaylo Dimitrov (Bulgaria), Kire Gjorevski (Macedonia), Ana Dubljević (Serbia), Nina Jan (Slovenia), Marko Jastrevski (Croatia), Jasmina Kazazić (BiH), Rina Kotur (Croatia), Lilijana Mihajlović (Slovenia), Kire Miladinoski (Macedonia), Elma Selman (BiH), Ljiljana Tasić (Serbia) and guests Nina Božič (Slovenia) and Elia Mrak Blumberg (USA) Choreographers and their workshops: Galina Borissova (Bg) / Between horizontal and vertical Selma Banich (Cro) / Working with strategies Martin Sonderkamp (Nl/D) / Improvisation in Performance Mala Kline (Slo) / INCORRECT IN-CARNATIONS or In the Colour of One's Flesh Nikolina Pristaš and Goran Sergej Pristaš (Cro) / ''Sam svoj majstor'' - Whatever Dance Toolbox Isabelle Schad (D) / Good Work Productions Andreja Rauch (Slo) and Teodora Popova (Bg) / Additional classes Invited lecturers and their interventions : Ana Vujanović (Srb) / A provisional historical map of the dance in the 20th and the 21st century; Dancing dramaturgy of dance Bojana Kunst (Slo) / Dramaturgy and dance Suzana Milevska (Mk) / Interdisciplinary aspects of performativity Sonja Zdravkovska – Džeparovska (Mk) / Dance, within the term Culturalisation; Comparison of the Macedonian contemporary dance scene and the European contemporary theatre Elena Jovanova Marčevska (Mk) / Performing tactical media Tzvetelina Iossifova (Bg) / Bulgarian dance stage in the last 15 years Neli Mitewa (Bg) / Inhabited garment – Social dress Borut Šeparović / Balkanlander (Cro) / Monitoring audience (communication) tactics Maja Djurinović (Cro) / Who needs Tradition? Rok Vevar (Slo) / Contemporary dance between Slovenia and Europe - comparative history of dance - selected chapters Interdisciplinary workshops: Venelin Shurelov (Bg) / Multimedia atelier - TRANSFUSION Igor Remeta, Tomaž Štrucl, Emir Beširević, Brane Zorman (Slo) / Learning through practice – light, sound, set Igor Mudjugorac, Miha Klinar (Slo) / Shaping and Implementation of ideas Alma Selimović (Slo) / Production ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOMAD/ Educational program is dedicated to 12 emerging artists in contemporary dance from the Balkans who will live, learn, work and move together, creating a network for future artistic collaboration. NOMAD / Educational program is made to improve and encourage exchange, education and creation in contemporary dance in the Balkans through a set of workshops, lectures, study visits and encounters with artists and theoreticians from all related countries and abroad. NOMAD / Educational program is an opportunity upgrade an artistic expressions, to enhance careers at its early stage and to make a ground for future international collaboration. NOMAD / Educational program 2008 will provide daily professional open classes, workshops and lectures from contemporary dance practice and theory, space for individual research and contacts with local and international artists and institutions. NOMAD gives 12 scholarships that cover the program fee, travel expenses and accommodation during 4 months (March-June). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOMAD Dance Academy NOMAD Dance Academy is education and research program of Balkan Dance Network that gathers all available potentials and resources in contemporary dance on local and regional level with the aim to contribute to improvement and professionalization of contemporary dance in the Balkans. Specific problems in the Balkans addressed by NDA are: Lack of higher education programs, Lack of cultual policy in the field, Lack of development funds for contemporary dance, Low visibility of contemporary dance within local cultures, Need for professionalisation of contemporary dance field. This initiative – Nomad Dance Academy – should open possibilities for development of the existing artistic practices and potentials in contemporary dance based on: intense regional cooperation and exchange, important international networking and credibility of the artists from the Balkans, need for empowering common market which should enable sustainability of new productions and better social status of contemporary dancers and choreographers, need for interdisciplinary approach to contemporary dance which is a synergetic art form relying on various art fields (visual arts, new media, music, theater, video, art theory....) and enriching these art fields, need for development of pedagogues who will take over extension of education policies with contemporary dance. The NOMAD Dance Academy program consists of three program lines with a different focus: - education - artistic research programs and regional / international creative cooperation - productions, co-productions and festivals . |
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