CoFestival: Book Presentation of Bodies of Dance
The book Bodies of Dance: Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After by Nika Arhar and Jasmina Založnik was created as an accompanying publication to the exhibition Dancing, Resisting, (Un)Working – Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After, which was opened by the Nomad Dance Academy network in November 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art during Choreographic Convention 2024 in Zagreb and in March this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana.
CoFestival: Master class by Isabelle Schad
For 25 years, Isabelle Schad has successfully worked with an open artist constellation in Berlin, exhibiting over 60 works at major venues. She works across generations, sharing her knowledge and practice with younger artists who are now in a mid-career generation, in order to in turn pass on her knowledge to the next generation. This creates a new type of training that grows organically, becoming a movement in its own right, with its holistic practice at its heart, understanding body and mind, practice and the visibility of the work as an inseparable unity.
Adam Russell-Jones at the [8:tension] Podcast
Adam Russell-Jones is our guest this week at [8:tension] Podcast! His solo Release the hounds was invited to this years [8:tension] Series.
Adam told me about his transition from being a ballet dancer in big companies to making his own work as independent choreographer, about the attraction as well as danger of dancing until complete exhaustion. How the collaboration with musician Moritz Haas evolved and what a drunk stranger on the U8 in Berlin has to do with his piece.
Almud Krejza was talking with Adam during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.
CoFestival 2025
This year's CoFestival – International Festival of Contemporary Dance, organised by Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, takes place from 21–28 November 2025. It is the 14th edition of CoFestival.
Mélissa Guex at the [8:tension] Podcast
This week it's Mélissa Guex, who is featured in our [8:tension] Podcast! Her work DOWN (full album) was invited to this year’s [8:tension] Series.
She talked about her fascination for big crowds. About the magic of instant connection and how she met the drummer Clement Grin, with whom she created the piece DOWN. How she sometimes prefers speaking with her body to speaking with her mouth. And the importance of warming up and accepting downs.
Almud Krejza was talking with Mélissa during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.
danceWEB Applications for 2026 are open!
Applications for danceWEB 2026 are open now and until 5 December 2025!
The danceWEB programme is a 5 week further education and exchange programme taking place every year in July and August in Vienna in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. danceWEB 2026 takes place from 8 July to 12 August 2026.
This programme for young professional dancers and choreographers focuses on the exchange of ideas and knowledge, not limited by national borders, on concentrated further training, on meeting with internationally renowned artists gathering at ImPulsTanz with the aim to orient the career of its participants and establish a network.
GAITLESS by Marko Milić in Ljubljana
Our Serbian Creative Crossroads artist Marko Milić presents his new work GAITLESS – an interactive dance space exploring anti-surveillance and anti-AI tactics as choreographic concepts – in the frame of CoFestival in Ljubljana!
Marika Peura at the [8:tension] Podcast
Marika Peura is this week's guest at the [8:tension] Podcast! Her work Amalgam Melee was invited to this year’s [8:tension] Series.
She talks about violence – and what difference it makes, who defines what violence is. About the longing for belonging. How to appropriate a culture which is your own, but is still not very familiar. And about dynamics one cannot control, neither in real life nor on stage.
Almud Krejza was talking with Marika Peura during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.
Lisen Pousette & Olivia Rivière at the [8:tension] Podcast
We kicked off season #3 of our [8:tension] Podcast and this week we welcome Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière!
The makers of the performance DUNKEL talked about the time when they met in choir school and how singing is their natural habitat. How they moved on from soprano and alto to heavy metal and growling and about their ongoing fascination with the deconstruction of the voice.
Capacity Grid, On The Outset, Outsetters Abroad
Performance Situation Rooms, Choreographic Conventions