Madness runs in the family is an initiative for family collaborations. Shaw once said that if you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, maybe you can make it dance. In the way that madness or beauty can run in a family, it is very possible the drive for performing to run in a family too, but only one or two members could be aware about it. The others might not understand it, find performing arts boring, too intellectual, distant, sterile, dead, too easy to be a real job, beautiful but senseless, very difficult to be rendered physically, etc. Zarevska and Georgiev come from families that are not very familiar with their children’s work, but THEY made them. Maybe they find contemporary arts too confusing, and feel uneasy to ask questions about it. Their children, on the other hand, feel uneasy not to be able to talk about their work. Their paranoia have went far enough to make them believe they are being regularly mocked, too. Therefore, they propose a device that mediates the lack of communication between the performer and the rest of the family on the topic: “performing is my real job”, by that he/she making a performance and having them as participants/collaborators fully treated as professionals in the field. Georgiev had collaboration with his mother, brother and sister-in-law during 2013, and already feels better.
 “Madness runs in the family” will host Aleksandar Geogiev and Snezana Georgieva’s performance “Freshly-bakes theater spaces” produced and premiered in 2013.
Dragana Zarevska (1985/ MK) is a visual artist. She holds BA in Film Directing (NBU, Sofia/BG) and MSc in Media studies at the Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Worked as artist-in-residence at SITE - Production Centre for Performing Arts (Stockholm), Trafó (Budapest), AIR  Krems (Krems an der Donau), and participated in projects realized at Ausland (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (Paris), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Norrlands Operan (Umeå) among others.  Performed in dance performances by choreographers: Isabelle Schad (DE), Anna Koch (SE) and Rebecca Chentinell (SE). Since 2011, together with Jasna Dimitrovska works as an artistic duo under the pseudonym Ephemerki.
Aleksandar Georgiev (1985, MK/SE) is a choreographer and performer. He had his BA education in Dance theater Department at the New Bulgarian University (2004-2008) and attended couple of non-formal educational programs such as NOMAD Dance Academy, 50 Days fly low and passing through with David Zabrano, Spazio, DanceWeb, etc. During 2014 he graduated from the MA program in Choreography at DOCH, Stockholm. Since 2008 he works actively on exploring intensities, since 2014 his main focus of work are family constellations.