41. DWF
Workshop
Encounters
Workshops are free for professionals dancers and also for advanced – graduating students of dance.
Those interested must register by email: hipptsp@gmail.com
All the workshops are held at Zagrebački Plesni Centar.
11. 06. 2024
10.00 – 13.00h
Poetic Body with Milan Tomašik!
The focus of this visceral workshops is on presence and musicality of movement, articulation of body parts, foot work, spins, jumps. Milan Tomašik, co founder of internationaly acclaimed company Les Slovaks, has over 20 years of international career created a unique creative method and process.
Poetic Body deals with the ability to perform actions and tasks fully, with passion and with ease in performance. The body and mind are awakened through various physical games, the body and mind are awakened through various physical games, and the body harmonizes with the moment, the space, connecting with our inner being but also with the environment. Milan likes to work in a friendly working atmosphere, which unites and inspires through diversity. He offers a holistic approach to dance in which the application of spontaneity but also certain movements are connected, where technique meets passion and where well-being is a priority. The emphasis is on rhythm and musicality, and on the articulation of individual parts of the body, precision of performance, footwork, jumps, turns. Milan guides you through an exploration of the contrasting qualities of movement, diverse ranges of body tension, and an exploration of the connection between emotion and movement.
12. 06. 2024.
10.00 do 13.00h Zagrebački plesni centar
Rafaële Giovanola : Unthought Body
The physical encounter with an unknown way of moving and the exchange with “different” non-academically formed bodies deepened the understanding of the body and significantly enriched the choreographic work of the German-Swiss choreographer Rafaëla Giovanola and members of Cocoon Dance.Through longer, intensive, continuous periods of movement research, and working with experts from other disciplines and those who use different dance techniques, this creative process studies ways of expression that are not typically dance.The processes are experiments that explore the perception of the body, both one’s own and another’s, and no specific dramaturgical thread is followed, except for the one offered by the body. The bodies are thus transformed into something new, different, into a movement that is not only there to move the dancers but also the audience.
Glossary work / MoveApp
The study of language, as an instrument for recording, clarifying and archiving movement, is the core of the research carried out by Cocoon Dance. Since 2017, the group has been systematically developing an increasingly rich glossary with the intention of creating an open archive that will not only serve as a depository of acquired knowledge, but will be continuously studied, upgraded and shared with others through dialogue. The result of such a glossary is a special method of work that emerges from the process and that contributes to more efficient communication not only in the context of working with professional dancers but also in working with non-academic dance enthusiasts.
13th June
10.00 – NOON
Morning with Simona Deaconescu
Simona Deaconescu is a Romanian choreographer and filmmaker working across genres and formats. She examines social constructs, at the border of science-fiction and objective reality, sometimes with irony and black humour.
Deaconescu holds a BA and a MA from the choreography department of the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. She received the danceWEB scholarship (2014), the CNDB – National Centre for Dance in Bucharest Award (2016), was an Aerowaves Twenty18 Artist (2018), and a Springboard Danse Montréal Emerging Choreographer (2019). She has developed new work connected with microbiology and virtual reality settings as an artist in residence of the European Projects “Moving Digits” and “Biofriction” in 2019 and 2020. In 2022, she will be an associate artist at CNDB.
In 2020, Simona Deaconescu started researching historical dance plagues, which led her to create Choreomaniacs, a docu-fiction performance about the 1518 Dance Epidemic in Strasbourg, premiered at CNDB in Bucharest. In 2022, she will be a Forecast Mentee Artist, mentored by French choreographer Mathilde Monnier, and a PACT Zollverein artist in residence, with “Ramanenjana”, a new docu-fiction performance about the 1863 dance epidemic in Madagascar. Her research will continue in Aachen and Koln, with a grant from Dance Research NRW, focusing on the 1374 River Rhine Dance Plague.
Find out more about the diverse and multilayered creative process and worlds, along with VR project Virtual (Living) Room.
10. 06 1.00PM to 2.00PM
Masdanza Festival Introduction with Natalia Medina
Zagreb Dance Centre, Mediatheque
Meet Natalia Medina, founder and artistic director of unique Spanish- European dance festival that takes place across the Canary Island. Learn about the international competition that has launched the carriers of many emergent choreographers, but also opened doors to many looking to expand their international presence. Natalia is keen to learn about you and your work.
Masdanza Festival is an associate partner of new 3-year EU project Moving Balkans.
10.06. 2024. at 6.00 pm
Introducing new EU project: MOVING BALKANS
Zagreb Dance Center, Mediatheque
Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Platform, is a new three-year EU project co-financed by the European Union and which started in 2024, with the aim of raising the status of contemporary dance through the cooperation of partners operating in these spaces, and to strengthen the competitiveness of artists who, within the wider European context, operate in the Balkans as well as their productions. Through festival collaborations, various actions in the field of artist mobility and productions, workshops and other forms of collaboration, the intention is to strengthen creativity and innovation in the field of contemporary dance.
Project Partners are: – Art Link Foundation (BG), Student Cultural Center, Novi Sad (RS), Albania Dance Meeting (AL), Contemporary Dance Association, Slovenia (SI), Croatian Cultural Center, Rijeka (HR), Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (HR), DAN.C.CE UNITIVA (GR), EN-KNAP Produkcija (SI), Interart Cultural Center (MK), Kino Šiška Center for Urban Culture (SI) and the National Dance Center, Bucharest RO).
www.movingbalkans.eu
PROJECT UPDATES:
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS to present at Platform MB 2025 is now closed.
The Moving Balkans contemporary dance platform, dedicated to supporting contemporary dance and bringing together dance organizations from the Balkans, has just closed its first open call for artists, which ran from April 4 to June 2, 2024. 173 applications were received.
An artistic committee consisting of all the network’s artistic directors will review all applications and select the Top10 applicants, who will be announced in September 2024. The process will consist of three phases:
Phase 1: filtering all eligible papers
Phase 2: the artistic committee and two international experts select 15 works
Phase 3: voting for the final 10 works
The top 10 applicants will be presented at the first edition of the Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Showcase, which will take place from May 10 to 13, 2025 in Ljubljana, Rijeka and Zagreb. It will offer artists and the audience a unique opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, interact and become part of a new artistic network. Selected performances will be shown in three host cities, engaging both the general public and international professionals in the field of contemporary dance. Selected works through the network’s touring scheme gain increased visibility and the possibility of continued artistic exchange.
For more information about the Moving Balkans project, visit the website www.movingbalkans.eu or contact us at info@movingbalkans.eu.
The Moving Balkans project is co-financed by the European Union.