Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found

DILF,  a performance by our Serbian Creative Crossroads artist Marko Milić is shown in Rijeka, Croatia, on 12 May 2025, in the frame of the Moving Balkans Showcase. 

Saline Nebula, a performance by our Bulgarian Creative Crossroads artists Stanislav Genadiev and Violeta Vitanova, is shown in Ljubljana on 11 May 2025 in the frame of the Moving Balkans Showcase.

Lokomotiva (Skopje) and Uferstudios (Berlin) invite applications for a 10–14-day artistic residency in Berlin in 2025 (ideally 16.06. – 27.06.2025). This residency is designed to support choreographers, dancers and dance makers in the field of contemporary dance and performance based in North Macedonia who need support in their creation process.

Applications are open until 23 May 2025.

Dance Shop is gathering a third and final time to sum up the season. Irene Plaque invites you to join to summarise the gathered experience whilst witnessing new materials and continue to interpret.

The young dance artist Ana Petkova shares her experience as a scholarship recipient of the prestigious danceWEB programme in Vienna. The discussion will be moderated by dance and theatre critic Angelina Georgieva, who will also share her impressions as a guest visitor at the Moving in November festival in Finland and its audience engagement formats.

O by our former Croatian Creative Crossroad artist Sonja Pregrad is shown at Antistatic Festival in Sofia on 17 May 2025.

Dance Magazine is an annual print publication dedicated to ballet, contemporary dance, and dance culture. Its goal is to cover current events, analyze processes, and highlight outstanding figures from the Bulgarian and international dance scenes during the season. Issue #7, which is published on 16 May 2025, introduces new, vibrant presences on the Bulgarian and international scenes such as Simeon Atanasov, Deva Schubert, Christos Papadopoulos among others.

Adam Seid Tahir premieres his new work Dawn in May at MDT Stockholm.

Maud Blandel is the artist in residence during the 18th edition of the Antistatic festival this May in Sofia. 

danceWEB nominated Austrian choreographer, dancer, dance-pedagogue, dramaturge and researcher Inge Gappmaier for a studio residency and a visit to Without Distance platform in Sofia.

The exhibition Dance, Resistance, (Un)Working – Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After, which opened in November 2024 in the frame of the Life Long Burning Choreographic Convention in Zagreb, is on screen in Ljubljana from 20 March until 31 May. 

Teodora Simova is working at Brain Store Project Sofia in the frame of On The Outset. As a graphic designer she is responsible for the festival programme books and also for the Dance Magazine.

During ChoreoCon 2024 we introduced the artist of the second cycle – her's a sneak peek, more details will follow next year.