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UNDER_CONSTRUCTION LocoMotion festival this year has been developed under very difficult financial circumstances that have restricted the access to resources, needs and capacities of the festival. In such circumstances it is very difficult to talk about a concept programation and festival format as planned, but as a program and format under- construction. Socio- cultural, economic as well as political circumstances in this context are framing the under-construction condition in which this festival can only exist, being not able to sustain the ideas, program, vision or even its format. In such a condition we are only able to provide certain environment and invite all the participants, audience and friends to construct a reflection and exchange frame. Such environment and frame will enable new collaborations and new economies instigated by the economies of exchange between the artists, cultural workers, audience, share of knowledge and networking based on heterogeneous investments, interests and practices. In this frame we will try to envision ahead the formation in which we reflect this permanent liquidity, or contest ourselves – valorize the institutional valorization of this festival and answer: Do we need this festival in this context that produces dead labor, underpaid or not paid artists and cultural workers, not opposing but supporting their precarious position? Is there, and what would be the future for a festival existing in under-construction context? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1" " 27th October, 2014 Monday 18.30 Lecture: Aldo Milohnić: Performing arts and the fictional structure of the law (part of the Critical Practice_Made in Yu_program, LLB) @Youth Cultural Centre Aldo Milohnić is an assistant professor of the history of theatre at the University of Ljubljana, Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He is editor-in-chief of the Politike book series and editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies of texts and special issues of cultural journals and author of the book Theories of Contemporary Theatre and Performance (2009). In the last twenty years he has been involved in many research projects dealing with history and theory of performing arts, sociology of culture, and cultural policy issues. 20:00 Performance: A TALK _Sudermann & Söderberg (Germany/Sweden) @Youth Cultural Centre Photo credit: Oilver Paul Concept, choreography and performance: Jolika Sudermann and Alma Söderberg// Artistic advice: Igor Dobrićić, Martin Nachbar // Light design: Erik Gramberg, Tilo Schwarz// Production management: Stephanie Lühn // Producer: hetveem theater Amsterdam// Co- producers: zeitraumexit Mannheim, FFT Düsseldorf With kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin We share a fascination for spoken language. We have studied the way we talk to each other, first filming our conversations and then learning them by heart. Through zooming in on the body language, the intonation, the sounds of hesitation, the rhythm and the gaps in the speech we discovered amorphous mechanisms that seem to communicate more than the literal content of our conversation. Form and content were constantly inverted. Eventually we found ourselves back in the dictionary, tripping on words like love, game, thing, trick. As we repeat the word Love over and over again it leaves the personal narrative and becomes a landscape for anyone to enter. In terms of the content, those words became a frame for the work. Using this method we have ended up with rhythms, songs, dances and silences. The spoken language contains them all and we only had to pay attention to what is already there. Our obsession for talking brings about a concert of words and gestures which starts to tell the story of our talk on a level of music and dance. 2" " Jolika Sudermann (DE) is a freelance theatremaker with a background in dance and environmental sciences. She studied dance theatre in Hamburg and graduated from the Mime course at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in 2010. Jolika is based in Berlin and works as an artist in residence at Het Veem Theater Amsterdam where a.o. she produced the successful duet A Talk, a trip into the musicality of spoken language in collaboration with the Swedish choreographer Alma Söderberg. A Talk premiered in February 2011 and has since been shown more than 50 times in various European venues. It won the audience prize and the prize for a remarkable performance at the Stuttgarter Theaterpreis 2013. Her quintet PULSE got selected into the Aerowaves dance network and toured Europe in 2011/12. Her latest work Infanten premiered in November 2013. Apart from making work, she teaches at Tanzfabrik Berlin and engages in community dance and theatre projects with adolescents and asylum seekers. http://hetveemtheater.nl/en/maker/jolika-sudermann/ http://jolika.theaterblogs.de/ Alma Söderberg (SE) works as a choreographer, performer and performer-musician after having studied flamenco, contemporary dance and choreography. She graduated from SNDO, the choreography department in the Amsterdam arts academy, in 2010. Alma Söderberg makes performances where sound, movement and speech are equally important and in her eclectic practice she is constantly re-discovering how intertwined the three are. She has made three solo performances: Entertainment, Cosas and TRAVAIL, has an ongoing collaboration with Jolika Sudermann with whom she made A Talk and plays in the performance band John The Houseband. Her new work Idioter (a collaboration with visual artist and theatre maker Hendrik Willekens) will premiere in May 2014 during Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels.http://hetveemtheater.nl/en/maker/alma-soderberg/ http://almasoderberg.com This performance on Locomotion is supported by Goethe Institute Skopje. 21:00 Post-show artist talks: leaded by Marialena Marouda (part of the Critical Practice_Made in Yu_program, LLB) @Youth Cultural Centre 28th October, 2014 Tuesday 19:30 Presentation/event: CAFÉ TALK by Peter Miles (Sweden) / presented by Aleksandar Georgiev (Macedonia) @Youth Cultural Centre This is a concept developed by Peter Miles and colleagues from the program of choreography at DOCH. During their education they created discussion game and café, a collaborative project. The project came about from their wish for a democratic space where conversation could exist. The discussion game is a game where the voice is distributed and the format of exchange also, transversing from speaker to everyone in a round, and from talking to the physical touch in social dancing. In the discussion café there were “fika” (coffee and cake), social dancing and discussions. The event is hosted providing a simple and transparent frame so to facilitate a space for the participants to adventure freely, safe, calm and in any direction. 1.randomly choose a card and read aloud. /2.everyone says something about the idea on the card. /3. open for a conversation, and if no interest to talk choose a new card and start again. /4. this continues for 20-30min when a compulsory break is made and everyone does the foxtrot demonstrated by the host with persons from their conversation, and everyone ask the opportunity to have cake and coffee./5. return to step 1. 3" " 20.00 Performance: KINETIK MAKEOVER_Milka Djordjevich (USA) @Youth Cultural Centre choreography & performance Milka Djordjevich; music Chris Peck; lighting Madeline Best; costume Reid Bartelme; eyes Rebecca Brooks photo credit: Brian Rogers Kinetic Makeover is a dance solo giving power and autonomy to one body. This body attempts to produce various images through the self-imposed task of repeatedly and compulsively moving. Perpetual action is a means for change in order to establish a new way of seeing and being. The various thresholds of the body are revealed through this self-directed persistence. Actions oscillate between being repetitive, mechanical, mundane, sustained, hypnotic, energetic, aggressive and euphoric. The act of doing is always in negotiation of the past, present and future. The dance is an attempt at the here-and-now, a never-ending effort that ceases to exist. The work is a reimagining of the body and its potential, what it represents and how it exists. Commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, developed at Performing Arts Forum (pa- f.net), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space, The Garage and Workspace Brussels, Belgium. This performance was made possible by a CCI ARC grant. Milka Djordjevich is a dance artist motivated by a desire to blur the distinction between ‘dance’ and ‘non-dance’ by attempting to un-choreograph choreography and choreograph spontaneity. Her work has been shown at several venues including REDCAT, Pieter and Machine Project (Los Angeles); the 2010 Whitney Biennal, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project and AUNTS (New York); Counterpulse and The Garage (San Francisco); Uferstudios (Berlin); Bitef (Belgrade); Artdanthe (Paris); WUK (Vienna); Fabrik (Potsdam); Solo in Azione Festival (Milan); Toihaus Theatre (Salzburg); Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (UK). She has received funding from NYLA’s Suitcase Fund; a commission from the Danspace Project 2010-11 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the Jerome Foundation; and residencies at Fabrik Potsdam, PACT- Zollverein, Workspace Brussels, UCLA Hothouse, LMCC Swingspace, among others. Djordjevich was a 2006- 2007 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2008/2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar. Her other projects include co-curating the