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apap production studio: Techniques of movement manipulation

Showing by Iskra Shukarova, Helena Botto, Viktorija Ilioska


In this process manipulation is put as the major choreographic tool to create movement language. The manipulation is established between choreographer and performer.The audience is a witness to the relations between the established roles of “the choreographer” and “the performer”, looking at their different interpretative modes as part of the process. More precisely the choreographer in the role of the one that gives the task and the performer the one that executes it. The work in process will eventually lead to defining new performance aspects of the choreographic tools in relation to the dance itself as an independent integral form, existing in the same space.

Choreographer: Iskra Shukarova | Performers: Iskra Shukarova, Viktorija Ilioska | Collaborator and outside eye: Helena Botto | Technical assistance: Elena Risteska

The collaboration between Lokomotiva Skopje and the international artistic network APAP in the frame of the Advancing Performing Arts Project enabled support of six international residencies of Macedonian authors to work on development of new contemporary dance productions.TECHNIQUES OF MOVEMENT MANIPULATION by Iskra Shukarova is supported with the residency in Berlin 22.4-30.04.2015 at Tanzfabrik Studio in Uferstudios. Her work TECHNIQUES OF MOVEMENT MANIPULATION as a work in process has been presented on the festival Locomotion 2014. The residency in Berlin is supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin, APAP and EU Culture Programme (Education and Culture).


Followed bythe presentation of the Macedonian Contemporary Dance Scene
Iskra Shukarova has been an active player in the field of contemporary dance in Macedonia, the Balkans and internationally. For the last 20 years, she has been working as choreographer and the last five years as professor at the dance academy as part of the Faculty for Music-UKIM in Skopje.As part of the presentation she will present her project Robolero which was performed last year in Sofia-Bulgaria. The performers in the project Valentin Dimanovski (composer), Viktorija Ilioska (performer) and Elena Risteska (performer) will take an active part in the discussion.

The project has been supported by the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia.

Iskra Shukarova

Iskra Sukarovaaccomlished her ballet education in the state ballet school in Skopje. Shefinished her contemporary dance studies at the National Conservatorium Superiorin Lyon, France, and in 2002 obtained her Master’s Degree at the Laban Centerin London, UK. She has completed numerous dance trainings with established artists suchas: Susanne Linke, Mark Tompkins, Joe Alegado, Milli Biterlli, Yoshiko Chuma,Allyson Green and Jennifer Lacey. Sukarova’s pieces have toured regionally and  internationally. She has been honored withmany fellowships such as Arts Link and DanceWeb. Sukarova was a principal soloist in the Macedonian Opera and Balletsince 1991-2010, where she was also appointed as artistic director of theBallet company from 2002-2004. In 2009 the Artistic Director of the Choreographic Centre Josef Nadjhonored Sukarova with a residency to co-create the piece Formula which toured internationally from 2009-2011.She is one of the founders of Lokomotiva - Centre for New Initiatives inArts and Culture since 2003. At Lokomotiva she has been engaged as artisticdirector for the contemporary dance programe. Since 2008 she is the co-founderand co-programer for the contemporary dance festival Locomotion in Skopje. Sheis also one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD DanceAcademy project. Since 2010 Sukarova is employed as professor at the state faculty forMusic - department of Dance pedagogy in Skopje. In February 2014 she obtainedher PHD at the state faculty of Theatre Arts in Skopje.

Helena Botto

Helena Botto is a performer and a choreographer based in Berlin.She had her first contact with the performing arts through Acto. Instituto deArte Dramática, artistic organization directed by former students of the Workcenterof Jerzy Grotowski. There she acquired competences in the field ofperforming arts, centered on the methodology of physical actions, physical andvocal training. Until 2005 she worked exclusively there.
In 2006, she founded her organization: PROJECTO TRANSPARÊNCIAS – criaçãode objectos performativos. She has been working as a director, performer,researcher and instructor. In February 2015 she concluded with distinctionher M.A. in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Hochschuluebergreifendes ZentrumTanz (HZT), Universitaet derKuenste (UDK), in Berlin. She has beeninterested in exploring both physical and compositional strategies to reflectupon form and content concerning movement production; strategies ofgenerating, transforming or erasing meaning, mechanisms of creating humor andnon-sense; grotesqueness, repetition, fragmentation and exaggeration asaesthetical procedures to deconstructsocial and political issues.


Viktorija Ilioska

Viktorija Ilioska is a Macedonian choreographer and performer who lives and works between North Macedonia and Germany. For over a decade now, she has been actively working at programs for support and development of contemporary dance, both collaborating with institutions as well as strengthening the independent scene. Since 2010, she has been a member of Nomad Dance Academy, through which she works on bringing connections and collaborations within the local and national contexts of theBalkan region. Viktorija holds a Master's degree in Choreography and Performance from the Institute ofApplied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University, Gießen. Playing with different forms of provocation, her work often addresses the notions of labour, identity, and female representation in the public sphere. 
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