ANTISEZONA 24 BLOCK- NOMAD DANCE ADVOCACY: CHOREOGRAPHIC CONVENTION - BODIES IN FREE FALL, which takes place from 19 to 23 November in various locations in Zagreb, is a partnership between ANTISEZONA and the regional network Nomad Dance Academy, and a part of the EU project Life Long Burning 3 – Futures Lost and Found.
This international event gathers numerous local, regional and international artists and experts in the field of dance, choreography and performance, provides rich artistic and discursive program as well as a platform for discussion on the development of dance art in the Croatian region.
It covers the premier of short film CLOSE ENOCUNTERS OF DANCE KIND that features over 50 Croatian dancers, opening of the exhibition DANCING, RESISTING, (UN)WORKING – ASPECTS OF DANCE AS A CULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND ART WORK IN YUGOSLAVIA AND AFTER, advocacy event TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES FOR DANCE that will focus on the initiative for structural and institutional development of professional dance in Croatia and region, as well as a series of performances and participatory artistic events.
// Meet us from November 19th to 23rd 2024 in Zagreb
// Visit our exhibition, artistic, advocacy and discursive programs
// Become ADVOCATE for better conditions for dance and performing arts in Croatia and Balkan region
// Observe, rethink, share and act
// Enjoy and get inspired with us
// Welcome to BODIES IN FREE FALL
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PROGRAMME
*TUESDAY | 19th November
18.30, MSU, lobby
CONVENTION OPENING
Welcome reception
Video installation: Close Encounters of the Dance Kind, premiere
20.00, MSU, Gorgona Hall
PERFORMANCE
Hihi, Ivana Bojanić, premiere
*WEDNESDAY | 20th November
10.00 – 17.00, ZAGREB DANCE CENTER
NOMAD DANCE ADVOCACY:
Transformative Policies for Dance
19.00, MSU, exhibition space
EXHIBITION OPENING
Dancing, Resisting, (Un)Working – Aspects of Dance as a Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After
20.30, MSU, Gorgona Hall
PERFORMANCE
Desire To Make A Solid History Will End In Failure, Igor Koruga
*THURSDAY | 21st November
17.00, MSU, exhibition space
CURATORIAL TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION
Dancing, Resisting, (Un)Working – Aspects of Dance as a Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After
18.30 MSU, Gorgona Hall
PERFORMANCE
Inside the Outside, Deborah Hay & Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia
20.00, MSU, Gorgona Hall
PARTICIPATORY PROGRAM
Glasovi / Voices: A Lullaby For Bodies in Free Fall, selma banich & Group for New Folk Practices, in collaboration with the Somatic Laboratory for Voice Matters (Glasno pitanje)
*FRIDAY | 22nd November
16.30 MSU, Extenzija
PARTICIPATORY PROGRAM
Conversations on Assumptions, Beliefs and Habits that Linger Around in the Field Of Dance, Whether Wanted or Unwanted / Desires, Fantasies and Imagination, Lana Hosni
19.00 MSU, Gorgona Hall
PERFORMANCE
Blink of Silence, Tamara Bračun
20.30 MSU, Gorgona Hall
PERFORMANCE
Sol, Silvia Marchig
*SATURDAY | 23rd November
18.00 MSU, lobby
PARTICIPATORY PROGRAM
Hangover Session, discussion
20.00 MSU, Gorgona Hall
PERFORMANCE
O, Sonja Pregrad and colleagues
21.30 MSU, Gorgona Hall
FILM
Dragon Hunt, Marko Gutić Mižimakov
MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
https://antisezona.space/.../choreographic-convention.../
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NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY CROATIA programme
*TUESDAY | 19th November
10.00 - 12.00, TALA PLE(j)S
Open lab: Constellation of Bodies
Teodora Ežovska,
*THURSDAY | 21st November
10.00 – 12.00, TALA PLE(j)S
Open lab: Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin
13.00 – 14.00, TALA PLE(j)S
INTERACTIVE INSTALATION
Presentation of Modular School of Nomad Dance Academy Croatia
https://ajaneva.wixsite.com/nomad-dance-academy
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*ANTISEZONA is a project which brings an all-year-round program of presentation and contextualization of contemporary dance and related performative practices to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and TALA PLE(j)S. It is led by dance artists Silvia Marchig, Sonja Pregrad, Iva Nerina Sibila and museologist Tea Kantoci. ANTISEZONA is created through the development of our artistic (authorial, performative, educational) and curatorial practices / interests / intensities / needs and through the productive synergy of the capacities carried by our artistic organizations Divert, Kik Melone and Object of Dance, finding a partner in the central national institution of contemporary art in Croatia – the Museum of Contemporary Art. ANTISEZONA (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24) is recognized by the public as a new international epicenter of performing arts in Zagreb.
*Created in 2005, Nomad Dance Academy is a Balkan contemporary dance network which is active in the field of dance education, artistic creation, production, as well as promotion, advocacy and cultural policies for dance. Through its cultural activism, it seeks to strengthen various creative and artistic forces in the local and regional contemporary dance contexts of the post-Yugoslav region, in order to contribute to better conditions for contemporary dance development and better working conditions for artists. The partners of Nomad Dance Academy understand contemporary dance and choreography as an artistic and social practice, which deals with working conditions, production, construction, performing, mapping and thinking various presences, absences and representations of (human) bodies, as well as their traces, manifestations and potentialities in the past, present and future.
https://nomaddanceacademy.org/nda/
*Life Long Burning is a network of European institutions which are dedicated to contemporary dance and performance. The project Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3) is our third 4-years-project, which got funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
https://www.lifelongburning.eu/
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TICKETS
-at the Museum box office one hour before the performance
- single performance – 8 euros
- combo ticket for two performance – 12 euros
- students, students of dance schools, pensioners and unemployed - 5 euros
- persons with disabilities and accompanying person - free
- students of the Department of Dance at ADU - free
- program of Zagreb Dance Centre and TALA PLE(j)S - free
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The program is financed by the City of Zagreb Office for Culture, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the Kultura nova Foundation and is part of the NAM and LLB3 EU projects.
Production of the ANTISEZONA program at MSU:
Department for program and exhibition activity:
Branko Kostelnik, producer
Miranda Herceg, expert associate for multimedia hall programs
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Design: Niko Mihaljević
