Tanzfabrik
Berlin
School
School
School
School Kreuzberg 3
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin School
School

Practicing Playful Thinking Together #1

Thinking with Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski, Marijana Cvetković, Ana Vujanović, Kasia Wolinska, Jette Büchsenschütz
In the frame of TO KEEP IN TOUCH ...

Systering – Practicing Feminist Governance

Join this session, which explores feminist approaches in dance and choreography within the context of NDA. Since its inception in 2005, NDA has been developing models of self-organization based on horizontal distribution of power among all the participants/actors, and cultivating spaces that openly embrace the element of surprise, care, and the joy of unforseen forms of sharing. Throughout the years, we have tried to critically engage with and reflect on prevalent forms of governing and the precarious working conditions they have introduced into our lives. United in our search for antidotes to creative, cultural, and social oppression, we are actively imagining, deliberating, and performing economic, political, and organizational alternatives, driven by care and solidarity, inclusion and diversity, starting with where (and how) we work and live. We believe that relationships are the living tissue that connects us, and only through nurturing a deep sense of solidarity are we able to stand up in opposition to the legacy of patriarchy and the institutions that continue to uphold it: competition (against others), ascension (over others), and exploitation (of others). A governing model that espouses the importance of caring relationships, and values equity, solidarity, balances, and the fair distribution of power, as well as joy and conviviality is, in our view, feminist. A sisterhood. 

The session will be curated by Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski and Marijana Cvetković with the collaborators Ana Vujanovic,  Kasia Wolinska and Jette Büchsenschütz. The session will be dedicated to the presentation of the book "Systering", created as a collaborative work of the participants of the 4th cycle of the Critical Practice_Made in Yu, a program developed by the Nomad Dance Academy and the apap - Feminist Future networks, that empowers discursive reflections on contemporary performing arts focused on, but not restricted to, the post-Yugoslav region. The new book explores feminist approaches to governance, production, curation, networking, writing, discussion, and critical thinking within the realm of dance and choreography. 

Biljana Tanurovska – Kjulavkovski

Biljana Tanurovska - Kjulavkovski is cultural producer, researcher and a curator at the intersection of dance, theatre and visual arts performance. She is co-founder of Nomad Dance Academy platform (NDA) (2005-) Kino Kultura (KK) – project space (2015-2020), Locomotion – festival for contemporary dance and performance (2008-2015) and program director of NGO Lokomotiva, Skopje (2003-). Currently she works on Archive of dance and performance in N.Macedonia as part of NDA project (Non)Aligned Movements; she is course leader of “Curatorial practices and context” at Stockholm University of Arts and co-mentor of the Critical Practice (made in Yu) program.She teaches and is author and editor of texts, journals and book “Modelling art and cultural institutions”. In 2019, she won the ENCATC International Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management for her doctoral thesis and in 2021 the AICA Macedonia “Ladislav Barishic” Award for the research “Political Performance as extended field in Macedonia in 90s”, among other. 

Marijana Cvetković

Marijana Cvetković has graduated in art history (Belgrade) and completed MA in management in culture and cultural policy (Belgrade and Lyon). Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Belgrade (museum management and development).She has initiated and realised various programmes and projects in the fields of cultural policy, international and Balkan cultural cooperation, contemporary dance, visual arts and museums.She is co-founder of Station Service for contemporary dance and Nomad Dance Academy, Balkan platform for development of contemporary dance and performing arts, as well as a cultural activist at the independent cultural scenes of Belgrade and Serbia.Marijana Cvetković is a lecturer at the University of Arts in Belgrade (UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management and MAIPR – MA in International Performance Research). 

Ana Vujanović

Prof. Dr Ana Vujanović (Berlin / Belgrade) is a cultural worker: researcher, dramaturge, writer, lecturer. She is focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art, while exploring feminist storytelling, ecofeminism, and resistance to fascism. She graduated from the University of Arts in Belgrade; holds Ph.D. in Theatre Studies and post-graduate diploma in Culture and Gender Studies. She has lectured at various universities; currently, she is a core team member and mentor at SNDO, University of the Arts Amsterdam, and a professor of theory at HZT, University of the Arts Berlin. She was a member of TkH [Walking Theory], a Belgrade-based theoretical-artistic platform, and editor of the TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory (2000-17). As a dramaturge or co-author, she participates in numerous performances and videos/films; most recently documentary film Landscapes of Resistance (2021) dir. by M. Popivoda. She has published a number of articles and several books, most recently "A Live Gathering: Performance and Politics in Contemporary Europe", ed. with L. Piazza (Berlin, 2019) and "Toward a Transindividual Self. A study in social dramaturgy", with B. Cvejic (Berlin, 2022).

Kasia Wolinska

Kasia Wolinska is a choreographer, dancer and author. She was born in Gdańsk and now lives in Berlin. As a dancer and choreographer, she collaborated with, among others, Lina Gomez, Sergiu Matis, Agata Siniarska, Anna Nowicka, Rosalind Crisp, Anton Vidokle. Her own choreographic works include, among others, “KISS” ( 2022 ), “Salvage” ( 2021), “Dance, Pilgrim Dance” (2017). Since 2018, Kasia has been writing a blog on dance and politics www.danceisaweapon.com. Her collectively and individually written texts were published in e.g. e-flux, Palletten, Dialog, and in books Danceolitics or Choreography Autonomies (Art Stations Foundation). From 2019 to 2023 she was a board member of ZTB e.V. Currently she is a member of systering, a transnational collective of artists, writers, dramaturges and cultural workers.

Jette Büchsenschütz

Open
In English
Price: Single Session 15€ / 5x-Card Afternoon Sessions 65€ / Flatrate Summer School 105€
Registration