NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY is a common initiative of six partner organizations from Balkan region with the aim to promote, educate and collaborate in the area of contemporary dance and related arts.
NDA is developing in three parallel lines of activities: Education, Artistic research and Artistic collaboration (production, co-production and promotion).
Nomad Dance Academy is part of the activities of the Jardin d’Europe project/network. http://www.jardindeurope.eu/
NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY began with the Educational programme 2008, and continued in 2009. This year the programme is dedicated to 13 emerging artists in contemporary dance from the Balkans. These artists were living, learning, working and moving together for 4 months, creating a network for future artistic collaboration. It was a dynamic process of learning, exchange and creation and took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Tanzelarija), Bulgaria (Brain Store), Croatia (Tala Dance Center), Macedonia (Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture), Slovenia (Fico Balet) and Serbia (Station- Service for contemporary dance).
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In the coming days Ljubljana will host the closing events of the programme:
Nomad Dance Academy annual meeting – Ljubljana, June 20th – 24th
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Short Cuts
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Conference
20th – 24th June - Annual meeting of Nomad Dance Academy team with partners
Presentation of NDA partners, presentation of the results of NDA September 2007 – June 2009. Invitees: individual artists, partners and funders of NDA, representatives of dance organizations and initiatives from Europe
20th – 21st June - Short Cuts # 2
20.00 – 22.00 Short Cuts #2 – guided tour in different venues in Ljubljana
Students of Nomad Dance Educational programme 09 will show results of their work, realized under artistic mentorship and in the production of Nomad Dance Academy partners, Bunker and Ljubljana venues: Dance Theatre Ljubljana, DIC Kreatorij, Tovarna Rog ...
NOMADS 09:
Bor Pungercic, Ana Schnabl (SLO), Martina Nevistic, Marko Kalc (HRV), Igor Koruga, Katina Diskov (SRB), Nikolina Todorova, Zhana Pencheva (BG), Aleksandar Georgiev (MAK), Lejla Muhic (BIH), Larrere Céline (FRA), Ruta Nordmane (LAT), Elia Rubin Mrak Blumberg (USA)
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Short Cuts #2 is an international contemporary dance staging of ideas of thirteen travelling choreographers and dancers from six Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Bulgaria), as well as other countries (Latvia, France and U.S.A), who had been living, travelling and creating in the framework of the NOMAD Dance Academy programme between 24th February and 22nd June 2009. Every fourteen days, the participants moved to another country, to another city (Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Kanjiza, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ptuj and Ljubljana) offering them artistic residencies including workshops, lectures, encounters with local and international artists and theorists, as well as spaces for their personal artistic explorations.
In a short period of time in Ljubljana, the Nomads will create – with the help of artistic advisers and local technicians – a series of short stories, situations and events (5-20 minutes), which will be performed at different locations. The lighting, sound, set design and video for Short Cuts #2 will be co-created by young Slovene technicians attending Bunker's stage-technical workshop.
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21st June 2009
23.00 – party at ROG
22nd June 2009
Conference 12h – 15h, “Put on the Red Shoes and…”
Slovenian Academy for Arts and Science,
At conferences we usually find ourselves discussing about cultural policies, networking and production strategies related to dance.
This time we wish to employ experiences of the conference participants for the discussion of issues, such as: dance and the city; choreography of crowds; mind as a muscle; static and mobile qualities of dance; the manner in which artistic procedures reflect life in cities, and vice versa; contemporary art as primary urban phenomenon.
We wish to derive from ourselves as individuals taking the metaphor of the Red Shoes as an explanation for the self-perpetuating urge to move, create and organise… We would like to explore the question about which we seldom speak in public: "What is it that propels us and keeps us creative regardless of circumstances?" We approach the contemporary dance not only as the movement of bodies, but also as the movement of mind, of thoughts communicating and always already including the Other. A related question in this context is: "How and where this personal drive inhabits the city and its social realities.
Moderator: Rok Vevar
Rok Vevar is active in the field of contemporary dance as the publicist, dramaturge, critic, editor and theatre director
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22nd June 2009
15:00 – 20.00 picnic with conference participants, students and NDA team, outside of Ljubljana: time to enjoy nature and relax.
Venues:
Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova 18
Plesni Teater Ljubljana, Prijateljeva 2
DIC Kreatorij / Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja, Poljanska cesta 26, Stavba A
Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Novi trg 2, atrij
http:///www.nomaddanceacademy.org
Nomad Dance Academy project is supported by
Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans, Culture programme of the European Union, European Cultural Foundation,
With local supports of Ministry of Culture of R.Macedonia, Ministry of Culture of R. Serbia, City of Zagreb; and Short Cut are supported additionaly by: Ministry of culture of R. Slovenia, City Council Ljubljana and US Embassy in Ljubljana.
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