2024
December
December 2024
NADA
(Non) Aligned Dance Archive
New digital database
NADA is a digital database and developing archive of contemporary dance and performative practices and works from the post-Yugoslavian region. It assembles and develops diverse perspectives and traces of artistic works and activities generally created and produced by formal and informal communities, collectives, and organizations working outside of the public arts and cultural institutions or in collaborations with them. This archive is the process of creating a memory, heritage, and discourse and it is a manifestation of a public time that reaches beyond the present moment, connecting communities, their artistic spaces, temporalities, and futures. It is the effort of the researchers and partner organizations who believe that artistic work is a common and collective endeavor that creates the (future) common.
December
December 2024
BODIES OF DANCE
Bodies of Dance: Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After
NEW BOOK OUT
This book, with its historical-theoretical position, provides the political, cultural, and artistic framing in which dance practices in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and North Macedonia emerged on various occasions. It articulates a selection of potent features that have been addressed by or appear in and through dance practice(s) and outlines a possible entry point into the wide scope of dance work that spans over a century and across four countries.
November 2024 – February 2025
November 20, 2024 – February 23, 2025
DANCING, RESISTING, (UN)WORKING
Aspects of Dance as Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After by Nomad Dance Academy – (Non)Aligned Movements
Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
This exhibition will perform long-term research on developing the digital archive of contemporary dance and the performing arts of the post-Yugoslav region. Because that is an ongoing process, we do not think of this exhibition as a final act or actualization of the material, but as one step towards sharing the relations we are building with the materials. We are showing it as a (un)working material, as a research space that is in its potentiality, not being there yet, or finished.
2023
December
December 2023
NAM residency for archiving in Belgrade
Critical Movement Residency

Station is organizing the last residency within the Critical Movement Residency program and the Non Aligned Movements project.
From December 11 to 15, the Nomad working group for archiving will gather in Magacin at Kraljevića Marka 4-8 and work on editing the digital archive of contemporary dance, which we have been working on for 3 years, as well as on the curatorial and technical design of the exhibition at MSU Zagreb, which will follow the official opening of the digital archive in mid-November 2024.
October/November
October/November 2023
Festivals!
Kondenz MOT festival CO-Festival
A various selection of curated works from the region is shown at the festivals of Non Aligned Movements partners in Belgrade, Skopje and Ljubljana.

Kondenz
→ dancestation.org/kondenz/kondenz-2023-feminist-futures/#NEWBODY
→ dancestation.org/kondenz-dan-drugi-trostruki-program
Lokomotiva / MOT festival
→ mot.mk
Co-Festival
→ cofestival.si/2023
August
August 20-29, 2023
Tanzfabrik Berlin
NAM Summer Summit & School
To Keep In Touch
Summer summit of the Nomad Dance Academy in the frame of the EU-project (Non)Aligned Movements at Tanzfabrik.

May
May 5-10, 2023
Lokomotiva Skopje
NAM residency
Digital Dance Database
Dance historians and archivists are going to meet at Lokomotiva to continue their work on the digital dance database in-progress, an exhibition (A) resisting dance and its bodies: Aspects of Dance as Culture and Art in the Socialist Yugoslavia and After (working title) and a book they are preparing to be published.

May 29 – June 2, 2023
Nomad Dance Academy Croatia, Zagreb
NAM residency Modular School

Modular School in Zagreb hosts artists from Serbia (PUZZLE#7), Slovenia and North Macedonia. They will get together and follow workshops by Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Larisa Lipovac Navojec and David Hernandez. Screening of the movie “Factories to the Workers” by Srđan Kovačević.
April 30 – May 7, 2023
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, Ljubljana
Mårten Spångberg in Ljubljana
Mårten Spångberg will give a lecture, lead a workshop for independent writers, and conduct a series of coaching sessions for authors in the field of contemporary dance and performance.
Co-organized with JSKD and zavod Maska.

April
April 11-13, 2023
Station/Stanica, Belgrade
PUZZLE#7
Workshop with Ana Vujanović

Puzzle#7 is a new cycle within the Puzzle platform, the aim of which is the systematic exchange of knowledge and experiences between a generation of established choreographers and theorists and younger artists, but also the presentation of an open, experimental, inclusive education model that questions the academic and institutional treatment of contemporary performing arts. The first workshop in this cycle will be Repuzzle, a dramaturgical workshop with Ana Vujanović .
April 28-30, 2023
Nomad Dance Academy Croatia, Zagreb
Modular School
Workshops, Davis Freeman and Roberta Milevoj
Modular School is opening space for a modular educative/residency program where authors can explore their ideas and have a collective exchange, a place they learn from one another and from different local and regional artists and beyond. We start with the workshops of Davis Freeman and Roberta Milevoj.

April 17-21, 2023
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, Ljubljana
Choreographic Turn #7
Deborah Hay, Christopher Roman, Céline Larrère, Laurent Pichaud and Darío Bardam
Choreographic Turn #7 is organized by NDA Slovenia and is hosting Deborah Hay, Christopher Roman, Céline Larrère, Laurent Pichaud and Darío Bardam.
The 5th anniversary of the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive in the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova is celebrated by reopening it to the public.

April 17-21, 2023, Ljubljana
Station / Stanica
Critical Practice (Made in YU)
Choreographic Turn #7

The Critical Practice programme is oriented towards empowering discursive reflections on contemporary performing arts while enabling their breakthrough into the larger public.
The new cycle of Critical Practice (Made in Yu) has its first live gathering of 6 participants and mentors in Ljubljana in the frame of the Choreographic Turn #7.
March
March 8-10, 2023, Vienna
Kick Off Meeting
Life Long Burning project / Nomad Network

March 14, 2023, online
Monthly Meeting
(NON)Aligned Movements
Our monthly meeting with all the partners
Life Long Burning project
Nomad Network
represented by Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and Divert from Croatia
February
February 1-7, 2023
NAM Residency Zagreb
NAM Archiving and Historicizing Dance in the Balkans
Rok Vevar, Jasmina Žaloznik, Tea Kantoci, Nina Gojić, Milica Ivić

Working on the new digital database established by the NAM project, Rok Vevar and Jasmina Založnik (NDA Slovenia) are going to work with our Croatian partners Tea Kantoci and Nina Gojić and with Milica Ivić from Serbia on the first uploads of digitalized materials and equipping them with a corresponding metadata, working practically on the use of software and learning about the database by using it.
February 6-12, 2023
NAM Residency Berlin
NAM ChoreoLab
Blind Spots and Placeholders: Re-Aligning Non-Alignment
Viktorija Ilioska, Sonja Pregrad, Dražen Dragojević
NAM ChoreoLab is a modular research choreography lab with the aim of re-reading the Non-Aligned Movement/s – by way of the historicism AND futurism of the ‘days of future past’ as well as the urgency of the current alignments and antagonisms, in relation to the on-going (queer) feminist and decolonial critiques and struggles, also the political and cultural, ultimately choreographic (self)governance.

February 13-17, 2023
Nomad Project Berlin
Co-Teaching
Rok Vevar, Dejan Srhoj, discollective, Gisela Müller

Co-Teaching is an educational format in which two, three, or more pedagogues co-teach the same dance training or a workshop. The format is developed by the members of the NDA network and other invited guests. The rules of Co-Teaching are determined by a choreographic score which is adaptable to the particular situation, group of students and the task we have set ourselves. The score may include the goal of the training, time, the number of teachers, as well as other information which would facilitate a clear and at the same time playful situation. The focus of the Berlin Co-Teaching will be on examining elements of dance practice and theory of the 60’s postmodern dance and finding its relevance today.