DANCE RESIDENCY | NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY | ZAGREB, CROATIA
29/05- 02/06/23
Zagreb, Croatia
Dance Residency of Nomad Dance Academy / (Non) Aligned Movements, in cooperation with Stanica (Serbia), Lokomotiva (North Macedonia), Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and Nomad Dance Academy Croatia.
The network Nomad Dance Academy was founded in 2005 by dance artists, producers, and theorists from the former Yugoslavia and from Bulgaria. After the turbulent political period following the break-up of the Yugoslav federation, the various dance actors endeavoured to create a dynamic and fluid artistic, cultural, and educational space in this part of Europe, to improve the creative and production conditions of dance and choreography, to create new production models, and to overcome the obstacles in regard to local and national, often nationalistic, cultural politics.
Since the beginning, Nomad Dance Academy has been active in the field of dance education, artistic creation, production, as well as dance promotion and advocacy for dance. Through its cultural activism, it seeks to strengthen the various creative and artistic forces in the local contemporary dance contexts of the Balkan region, in order to achieve the right conditions for professional, high-calibre, and exciting contemporary dance work. The Nomad Dance Academy members understand contemporary choreography as an artistic and social function, methodology and practice, which cares for good working conditions for artists. It reflects and makes visible various presences, absences or representations of the human body, individual or collective, as well as its traces, indications, and potentialities in the past, present and future.