Marko Milić
Creative Crossroads Cycle Two 2025–2026
Marko Milić is a dance and multimedia artist whose practice is rooted in non-institutional education and alternative performance formats. He began his artistic journey with Growing Up Theater and the Association of Independent Theaters in post-war Yugoslavia. Initially focused on photography, he was also drawn to dance, and his travels exposed him to diverse movement practices, leading him to rethink dancing beyond traditional performer-audience structures.
His international presence includes performances and exhibitions at festivals such as ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Tanz im August (Berlin), FIDQU (Montevideo), Perforacije (Zagreb), KONDENZ (Belgrade), GNARL Festival (Lincoln, UK), Il faut brûler pour briller (Luxembourg), and CoFestival (Ljubljana). His research extends into the intersection of dance and science, notably as a WimmelResearch Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and through his work on BINEMA, an ongoing project investigating dance in scientific settings.
He is actively involved with STATION – Service for Contemporary Dance, promoting dance in Serbia and the region.
Read more about Marko Milić here.
To dance
Workshop by Marko Milić
During his residency at Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse in Montpellier, Marko Milić teaches a one day version of his workshop To Dance.
The relationship between visibility and invisibility gets explored, what happens when dance is no longer centered on audience-performer engagement or the expectation of being seen? The workshop examines movement as a personal tool for experimentation and connection, liberated from being “on display”. What occurs when dance shifts away from the expectation of visibility?
Participants discover new layers of expression, blur creation and performance, and reflect on movement’s role for both the mover and the moved. The session will invite them to question: What moves us and why? How do contemporary perspectives on dance – its function, styles, and philosophies – shape our relationship with movement today?
Find details here.
Foreskin Diving
by Marko Milić
The term dickpic entered popular culture in the early 2000s, coinciding with the rise of camera-equipped smartphones and the social-media-fueled circulation of images. While the penis has long appeared as a symbolic presence – on fertility cults, graffiti, school desks, and bathroom walls – the “self-portrait” of the penis is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Marko Milić’s new work includes photographs, paintings and digital drawings, tracing the movement of desire in current visual culture. The exhibition(ism) invites fluidity, lateral drift, and immersive wandering through its visuals, tracing the surrounding currents and edges instead of focusing on the anticipated explicit.
Foreskin Diving by Marko Milić opens at KC Magacin as part of the Šouruk event.
26 December
10:00–01:00
GAITLESS
Performance by Marko Milić
GAITLESS is an interactive dance space exploring anti-surveillance and anti-AI tactics as choreographic concepts.
The idea came from a peculiar news story: a group of bank robbers allegedly outwitted AI-powered security cameras by rolling instead of walking – bypassing motion detection systems trained to recognize human gait.
The act of subverting machine perception becomes a choreographic principle.
Concept and Direction
Uroš Krčadinac & Marko Milić × MIREVI
Creative Development and Support
Ivana Družetić-Vogel, Patrick Kruse, Ben Fischer
Dance
in ongoing accumulation powered by: Milica Urić, Marko Milić, Uroš Krčadinac, Predrag Mladenović, Anke Plaßmann, Nenad Jelesijević and you
Multimedia Software Development
Ben Fischer
Music thanks to
Kӣr
Video and photography
Leon Loesch
Created in the framework of MODINA project. MODINA is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
Special thanks: Fabian Büntig, Lorenz Grau, Anna Freytag, Stefan Schwarz, Milisava Petković, Jelena Vuksanović
GAITLESS is presented in Budapest on 2 November, in Bucharest on 9 November and during Co-Festival in Ljubljana on 28 November 2025.
To dance
Workshop by Marko Milić at ImPulsTanz 2025
In the frame of his first Creative Crossroads activity, Marko Milić teaches a workshop at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. In To dance the relationship between visibility and invisibility gets explored, what happens when dance is no longer centred on audience-performer engagement or the expectation of being seen? The workshop examines movement as a personal tool for experimentation and connection, liberated from being “on display”. What occurs when dance shifts away from the expectation of visibility?
Participants discover new layers of expression, blur creation and performance, and reflect on movement’s role for both the mover and the moved. The session will invite them to question: What moves us and why? How do contemporary perspectives on dance – its function, styles, and philosophies – shape our relationship with movement today?
Find details here.
DILF – Is there a strong sexual fantasy without trauma
Performance by Marko Milić
DILF carves into the terrain of strong sexual desires, questioning how authentic they truly are — or how much they’ve been shaped by external influences over time. It also scratches sexual pleasure as something often entwined with the pain we wish to escape. The performance is created in collaboration with Svetozar Adamović, a retired principal ballet dancer of the Belgrade National Theater. The piece honors 40 years of his remarkable dance career.
DILF is shown in Rijeka, Croatia on 12 May 2025, in the frame if the Moving Balkans Showcase.
Marko Milić
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!
Foreskin Diving by Marko Milić
Foreskin Diving by Marko Milić, our Serbian Creative Crossroads artist, opens at KC Magacin in Belgrade.
The exhibition(ism) about dickpics invites fluidity, lateral drift, and immersive wandering through its visuals, tracing the surrounding currents and edges instead of focusing on the anticipated explicit.
Open Call for Finland based artists
In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Moving in November and Station – Service for contemporary dance are offering one Finland-based artist the chance to participate in a 4-day lab in Belgrade, facilitated by dance and multimedia artist Marko Milić.