Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working – Aspects of Dance as a Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After is an exhibition curated by Nomad Dance Academy – (Non)Aligned Movements. It performs a long-term research on developing the digital archive of contemporary dance and the performing arts of the post-Yugoslav region.

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

Discuss with us.

by Sonja Pregrad

by Marko Gutić Mižimakov

with Lana Hosni

by Tamara Bračun

by Silvia Marchig

In the frame of ChoreCon 2024, the participants of the Modular School will share their collective work at TALA PLE(j)S. Through an interactive installation, visitors will have the opportunity to explore individual projects intertwined with group responses.

A morning class rooted in a self-creating practice, combining theory and various exercise and movement methods to explore non-normative ways of giving and receiving care for both, our own bodies and others’. 

A performance by Deborah Hay & Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia.

A Workshop by Selma Banich & Group For New Folk Practices

Antisezona and Nomad Dance Academy put together a day of discussions, aiming to sketch beter future scenarios of our dance community:

Activating the Present of Dance: Discussing Cultural Policies

Futuring: Dance Research as the Foundation of a new Dance Institution

New Structures for a new Future – Call for Action

The starting desire in the creation of this dance performance by Igor Koruga is the question: in what way can archiving dance art be an artistic practice? The author’s exploration of this desire takes place through a transgenerational creative exchange with six choreographers/directors/dancers/performers of the local independent dance scene: Nela Antonović, Anđelija Todorović, Jelena Jović, Tanja Pajović, Boris Čakširan, and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić.

Save the date! The Choreographic Convention 2024 is taking place from 19–23 November in Zagreb, hosted by Antisezona, co-hosted by Nomad Dance Academy.

An open lab by Teodora Ežovska. The focus of the Constellations of Bodies workshop is on creating group dynamics and harmony among participants by developing awareness of internal dynamics, space, time as a measuring unit, and proximity. 

A Performance Situation Room: Close encounters of the dance kind

What would you send into the future of dance? We asked the local dance scene to dance and write their answers to the following question: If there were something at your disposal right now that you would send into the future of dance, what would it be? We received answers from those at the beginning of their journeys, as well as from those who have been on this trek for a while. For very trivial practical reasons, the responses presented in the film don’t encapsulate the entirety of our scene, but demonstrate its multiplicity, polyphony, strength, persistence and permanence. 

Premiere of the Performance Hihi by Ivana Bojanić.

In the frame of our programme Outsetters Abroad, Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli started working in Zagreb as part of the organisational team of the ChoreoCon 2024.  

In the course of Antisezona#4 Darío Bardam is coming to Zagreb. He is sharing his practice based on the work seguir moviendo (keep moving) which he presents at the festival.

In the course of Antisezona#4, Marjana Krajač is giving a live online lecture. In her research she explores spaces at the former Workers and People’s University Moša Pijade in Zagreb that served as dance studios and were used as movement sites during the socialist and post-socialist periods.

Lana Hosni is inviting you to open morning sessions during her residency at Veem House in Amsterdam! The sessions are a selection of the warm-ups and tune-ins she would normally do as an entrance to her daily practice, and they are focusing on body, somatics, movement-emotion-voice aligning and opening into availability. 

danceWEB is looking for a dance critic/producer/independent dance curator/artist interested in getting to know the contemporary dance scene in Croatia. This internship is dedicated to the Choreographic Convention from 19–23 November 2024, organised by our partner Antisezona in Zagreb. Application ends on 2 October!

ICI–CCN invited Ametonyo Silva to participate at Improspections 2024 in Zagreb. 

Croatian Creative Crossroads artist Sonja Pregrad is in residency in Berlin! She also shows her work O at Uferstudios.

In Struga, North Macedonia, the International Summer School Curating in Context returns for its fourth edition, offering a unique platform for rethinking curatorial practices in contemporary art and beyond. 

Nomad dance academy Croatia is a guest at the Karlovac Dance Festival!

The summer edition of the 14th Karlovac Dance Festival brings collaboration and partnership with the Nomad Dance Academy Croatia through their Domino Residency and Modular School programmes.

Another Artistic Exchange Residency is coming up! Amsterdam based performer Flavia Pinheiro will research in Zagreb in June and July.

Expose brings together authors and artists from various fields of art who practice (self)archiving, (self)musealization, (self)documentation, (self)recording or/and (self)mapping through mixed formats and media. This three-day public event will explore these practices and their relation to the fields of dance and new media art.

Serbian dancer Nemanja Bošković joins workshops by Mathilde Monnier & Stéphane Bouquet, Nadia Lauro and Jassem Hindi in the frame of exerce by ICI–CCN.

This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.

Our Creative Crossroad artist Sonja Pregrad from Zagreb received the Croatian Professional Dancers Associations Award for the best performance in 2023, for her solo performance OBJECT OF DANCE. 

Divert Zagreb and Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia invite to a discussion with Valentina Miloš, Sonja Pregrad, Silvia Marchig and Gregor Kamnikar. 

Our Croatian Creative Crossroad Artist Sonja Pregrad presents her newest work O in the Course of Antisezona #5 on 24 November at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb – MSU. 

Lokomotiva (Centre for new Initiatives in Arts and Culture) and Firstborn Girl (Festival of Feminist Culture and Action) teamed up with MOT Festival. They set up the performance platform A Missing Institution. The dramatic advisors Jette Büchsenschütz and Maeve Johnson are participating and will follow up with an article, a reflection on the contemporary performance scene of Skopje.

Transforming digital space of livestream into mobile house theatre, where technician, cameraman and performer – all the same person – dissect potentials of that multi layered media format.

Our Croatian partner Divert is co-funding Anneleen Keppens new production Blue Moon Spring. 

With: Boris Barukčić, Ela Đimoti, Dora Pocedić, Nika Špekuljuk, Linda Tarnovski, Sara Trbara and Jovana Zelenović.

The participants, who joined the programme led by Aleksandra Janeva, had the opportunity to present their work. This event was a space for exchanging knowledge and experiences, a space for mutual support and opening questions in cooperation with other participants and the independent scene in Croatia and abroad. Participants have self-curated and organized the weekend in which visitors had the opportunity to meet them through very different formats.

Dora Đurkesac and Tea Kantoci were discussing with the artists after every performance during Improspections festival. They generate collaborative material which was interpreted afterwards at the closing session and shaped into a publication/zine, using interdisciplinary knowledge (art, design and museum studies).

The four artists are invited to contribute to the workshop programme of Improspection 2023 in Zagreb. 

Improspections invited Luka Švajda to share his artistic research project with students of the Department of Animation and New Media and the Department of Dance, within a four-day workshop and a public presentation.

As a part of the larger research project investigating how dance operates as a meaning-making mechanism, the workshop focused on the notions of matèrie ecrite (written matter) and immediate irreality. Matèrie ecrite is an invention of the French avant-garde artist Pierre Guyotat; however, this oratory, visceral, and rhythmic lexicon (i.e., a method of writing) was repurposed, allowing to experiment with different forms and media.

Divert is co-funding Vincet Riebeeks new work Don't Clapp for Crap, which will be premiering at Julidans on 4 July.

The lab embarked on a sensorial exploration in Zagreb’s botanical garden, using the different physical and vocal tools that were at hand in the artistic research of Faune/in the garden.

The garden is a vibrant and vivid ecosystem where multiple events take place; everything, everywhere, all at once: Participants opened up their field of vision – from the insect perspective to what’s there – on top of trees, the skin took an active part in the garden’s landscape and imaginative ears covered each centimetre of our bodies in order to tune in to the lowest sound, touch introduced us to the plant’s textures and their different shapes.

Alone and together, close to the plants and to each other, participants were traveling in the garden’s paths and its ever-changing tempor(e)alities.

The up and coming Croatian dancer and choreographer is participating at Choreographic Turn #7: Encounter with Deborah, which is a collaboration with Antisezona.

Klara Šoštarić started to work at Divert in Zagreb.