Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found

Kaïsha Essiane is on residency at ICI–CCN in November, working on her Life Long Burning Co-Production Les choses de mon corps.

Moving in November released its programme for the festival from 7–17 November in Helsinki! One format we are involved in and highly recommend: The Soup Talks, where informal conversations raise between audience and artists mingling around a hot pot full of soup.

Episode 13 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Here is Astrid Boons, everyone!

In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Vienna based choreographer Costas Kekis is visiting Helsinkis international dance Festival Moving in November.

Eliza Trefas is visiting our Finnish network partner Moving in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency in Helsinki.

Brand new episode 12 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Chris Haring had a chat with French choreographer and dancer Georges Labbat.

Episode 11 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! 

We started to release Season #2 of our [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series! 

Our first guest is Deva Schubert, dancer and choreographer from Berlin and one of the winners of the 2024 ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographer’s Award with her piece Glitch Choir.

IC–CCN has invited playwright Marie Reverdy to accompany a group of people to explore the programmes of Par/ICI: Madeleine Fournier and Bryan Campbell.

The project manager, artistic mediator and facilitator from France recently moved to Finnland and is now involved in the production of the contemporary dance festival, which takes place from 7–17 November this year.

Elvan Tekin is working for Uferstudios in the frame of our programme On The Outset.

André M. Zachery gives a workshop on Intention, Invitation, Initiation during Puzzle#8 in Belgrade, Serbia. 

Discuss with us.

by Sonja Pregrad

by Marko Gutić Mižimakov

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres on 22 November at Tanzquartier Wien! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

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

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.

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.

Mean Time Between Failures, the Helsinki-based experimental dance and performance art collective of Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen. During their Artistic Exchange Residency at STUK, MTBF will work with sound designer Oula Rytkönen, who is a long-term collaborator of the collective. They will focus on dramaturgical and choreographic development of a new dance piece called DOWN BEAT.

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.

Klara Šoštarić started to work at Divert in Zagreb.