Madness Runs in the Family (Ludiloto e del od semejstvoto) was a collaborative platform initiated by Aleksandar Georgiev and Dragana Zarevska to reflect on the nature of their profession and explore the idea of extended choreography through the perspective of family collaboration.
The project grew out of Georgiev’s earlier work with his parents, which took place in 2013 and 2014. Georgiev and Zarevska challenged traditional notions of performance by engaging their family members who often do not fully understand the creative work of choreographers and performers, particularly those operating outside mainstream institutional frameworks, and who have no prior experience in dance or performance.
Madness Runs in the Family opened up spaces for diverse identities and bodily presences, dismantling hierarchical distinctions between professional and non-professional performers. The intimate, intergenerational aspect of family collaboration blurred boundaries between personal and public, also with the performances in various spaces, including domestic settings like their homes, as a way to rethink the formal boundaries of performance settings. In doing so, Georgiev and Zarevska created an inclusive, open platform where collective processes could be experienced by people from different social groups, professions and environments, expanding the idea of what performance could be.
