CoFestival, International Festival of Contemporary Dance (2012)

CoFestival 2012

Rok Vevar and several curators: Choreography in an Epoch of Movement, exhibition and media library

Mankica Kranjec: Not Everything That Is Below Is Above, exhibition

Disciplina Kitschme, Ludovik Material, concert

Concretely Immaterial

Andros Zins-Browne: Immaterial Bodies, Embodied Materials (2010), lecture performance

Vid Vodušek: Meeting Place, recurrent discussion

CoFestival opening and speech

The Loose Collective: Old Testament According to the Loose, work in progress

Let’s Make Some Space

Mateja Bučar: Space Gaps in the Choreography of Mateja Bučar, lecture and discussion with the author

Leja Jurišić and Petra Veber: Ballet of Revolt (Balet upora), pre-premiere performance

Experience Has Recollection

Co-working: Kino Šiška, Špica Prule, daily co-working spaces for duration of festival

Céline Larrère, Jana Jevtović: Chorégraphie, BABY! (2012), research

Teja Reba and Loup Abramovici: 650 Experiences (A History of the Body That Hasn’t Been Robbed Yet)

How to Do Things With Dance?

Clear Thoughts I: Contemporary Dance Initiatives, presentations, discussion, performance

Itamar Serussi: Mono Excerpts, interview performance

Choreographies of Remunerated Works

Clear Thoughts II: The Future of Slovene Contemporary Dance, presentations

Nina Božič and Dejan Srhoj: Intro Innovative Mindset & Personal Involvement,

workshop

Gregor Ilaš: Does the Theory of Post-Fordism Have Anything to Say of the Precarious Work of the Movers? Huh, Yes and No!, lecture

Mala Kline: Eden (2012), work in progress

Slowly or Even Keeping Still, but Not Necessarily

Global SOFA and Ekvilib: Janez Janša & Janez Janša, lecture

La Zampa: Spekies, work in progress

Qudus Onikeku: STILL/Life, performance

Transformations – Even of Those Just Observing

Global SOFA and Ekvilib: Tandem Kitch and Dragana Alfirević Srhoj, lecture

Jasmina Križaj and Cristina Planas Leitão: The Very Delicious Piece (Zelo okusen zalogaj), work in progress

Maps of the Paths (Re)Made

Picnic at Špica

Tina Dobaj Eder and Gregor Kamnikar: Capital on Sale

RadioCona (Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman): Transmit Walk, intermedia and interactive

work

Pierre-Yves Diacon and workshop participants: Derivative Products, workshop presentation

Dejan Srhoj: Mapping the City (Mapiranje mesta), ready-made performance and public discussion

Today We Will Improvise!

Nina Božič and Dejan Srhoj: Improvisational Practice, workshop

Emili Bizjak, Nika Mlakar, Naomi Novak, Maja Radojevič, Laura Štangelj, Vesna Zupanc: 6 x 19, dance solos

RadioCona (Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman): Transmit Walk, intermedia and interactive work

Tina Valentan and Luka Martin Škof: Working Title (Delovni naslov), participatory work in progress

Dragana Alfirević Srhoj and Marjeta Kamnikar: Meta Level, documentary improvisation

Tina Tarpgaard: Living Room, excerpt from a performance

Extend the Sounds through the Windows

Nina Božič and Dejan Srhoj: Reflective Practice, workshop

Theremidi Orchestra, music performance

Tomaž Grom and Loup Abramovici: Maybe It Is Time for the Two of Us to Take a Moment..., performance

Today We Will Improvise Again – Together!

Nina Fajdiga: To Fly! (Leteti!), movement research

Goran Bogdanovski, Dejan Srhoj, Violeta Bulc: Network and Intuition, open training and discussion

Contact jam session

Working with Budgets Closed

Saška Rakef, Nika Arhar, Pia Brezavšček, Katja Čičigoj, Jasmina Založnik: Choreographing Calculations, lecture performance

Dragana Bulut, Eduard Gabia, Maria Baroncea: E.I.O., performance

Take Our Time!

Nina Božič and Dejan Srhoj: Time – Space – Process for Supporting an Innovative Mindset, workshop

Nina Božič and Dejan Srhoj: Innovative Mindset – Sharing Experiences, open session/discussion

YU GO – The Friction, My Buddy Moose, concert

All Good Things Must End

End of festival and evaluation

COFESTIVAL

"CoFestival, which integrates the artistic programmes of Pleskavica, Ukrep and Modul Dance (of the international European Dancehouse Network), is an artistic manifestation of collaborative work in the hybrid field of contemporary dance. It reflects a specific time where we ended up thanks to global financial markets, and the possibilities for a new consideration of what it means to live and spend time together, what it means to collaborate and make art, and what it means to create policies and methods of collaborative work in the field of art. Undoubtedly, this festival has been marked strongly by last year’s edition of Pleskavica, where rather than finished artworks, the focus was on joint work of invited contemporary dance artists, producers, dramaturges and critics. They created a kind of a virus that spread through the region to Impulstanz in Vienna, where the Nomad Dance Academy network was having a residency, to festivals Kondenz (Belgrade) and LocoMotion (Skopje) and to the educational format entitled Teaching The Teachers, which is being developed in the network Jardin d'Europe and was executed last year by the Skopje-based non-governmental organisation Lokomotiva in a partnership with the Balkan network Nomad Dance Academy. Having realised that the ideology of cultural policies and production was exhausting our temporal choreography of art manufacture, it has been our aspiration to shift the festival programme from production to creation. We have been striving to free the dance from manufacture, give it time and to make sure we had a great time as well.

CoFestival is neither an esoteric get-together nor a heterotopic platform. Rather, it is a procedurally programmed joint artistic and educational programme combining three festivals, its aim being to co-shape in a responsive and reflexive manner the conditions and organisation of artistic creation as well as the ways of artistic presence in the addressed social space. We are interested in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and non-disciplinary creation of dance potentials and perspectives ranging between art, science and education, i.e. between the fields of creativity that no country should eliminate from its policies when thinking its future. At the same time it has to be stressed that our work also focuses on erasing the intergenerational borders, to which special attention has been paid within certain projects. There is no age limits in creativity and education. In no way should collaborative and experimental work be an exclusive domain in art, science and education, yet we believe that these are the fields where its growth is ensured the best climate. CoFestival wishes to provide the space for excessive creativity and thought, which is the only way to anticipate the approach of new times."