The fifth edition of Balkan Art Week in September 2009 is entitled /OBSESSION/ which seeks artistic interpretations that could be seen in religion, power, sexuality, politics, love, brutality, money and many more.

You can apply within the following categories:

[1] video/film/animation
[2] photography
[3] fine/applied arts
[4] jazz/improvisation/electronic music
[5] contemporary theatre/dance
[6] multimedia projects

DEADLINE
The final deadline for online submission is 15 January 2009.

ONLINE APPLICATION
Applicants are invited to apply with their works through an online application. Where works are too large to be sent online, artists are requested to send them via mail, on a CD/DVD format, with the entry form enclosed, to the following address:

TERMINAL/00/
41 ALBION YARD
WHITECHAPEL ROAD
LONDON E1 1BW
UNITED KINGDOM

NOTIFICATION
The selection for TERMINAL/00/ will consist of a collective choice made by selectors, based on the submitted material. Due to a high number of applications, only successful applicants will be contacted by email within six weeks of the final deadline. The decision of the selectors is final and non negotiable.

TERMINAL/00/ AWARD
TERMINAL/00/ will reward the best artist/project with a fully sponsored solo exhibition/performance or/and concert in London in 2009/2010.

APPLICATION FEE
The application fee is 20EUR per entrant, which goes towards the costs of administration. The application will not be viewed unless payment is received. This is non-refundable. Payment can be securely paid online via PayPal. A tax invoice will be sent to each applicant shortly after their application has been lodged.

WWW.TERMINAL00.ORG

Dance Explorations Beyond Front@ (Beyond Front@) stimulates and supports the production and presentation of contemporary dance for artists and audiences in the border regions of northeastern Slovenia, southeastern Austria, western Hungary and northeastern Croatia. The five main participating organizers: Flota (Murska Sobota, SLO), Hrvatski Institut za pokret i ples / Tjedan suvremenog plesa (Dance Week Festival) (HIPP-TSP) (Zagreb, HR), cie Frenak (Budapest, HU), Dance Identity/D.ID (Pinkafeld, AT), and OHO (Oberwart, AT) unite expertise and experiences with local and international artists and audiences to create a new collaborative venture in contemporary dance.
The project activities centre around four areas of cultural activity/action:

1. Performances Beyond Front@ to present high quality professional contemporary dance performances by choreographers/companies from the four participating countries and at Front@ Festival of Contemporary Dance (Murska Sobota), Dance Week Festival (Zagreb), and Burgenländischen Tanzwochen (Oberwart) and Trafo venue in Budapest.

2. Audiences Beyond Front@ to increase audience accessibility and mobility to culture through specially designed actions that can make culture more accessible (free transportation across borders, transportation for student groups, special performances for student or other targeted groups).

3. Dialogue Beyond Front@ to foster cross-cultural dialogue and exchange among artists and audiences who attend those festivals; to generate dialogue and interest about the cutting edge issues of contemporary dance through formal and informal public discussions, theoretical debates and gatherings of diverse audiences and artists, as well as a workshop for pedagogues and a 2-day conference.

4. DCL (”diesel”) - Dance Communication Lab to provide fuel for artists by organically develop new collaborations among young professional dancers and artists whose work intersects the dance field (architects, designers, video/filmmakers, visual artists, musicians) by producing a series of cross-cultural contemporary dance improvisation evenings.

5. Creation Beyond Front@ to develop cross-cultural co-productions among the participating countries and to encourage artistic production and performance by young artists.

Project goals include:

1. to present high quality professional contemporary dance performances by choreographers/companies from the four participating countries and other European nations at Front@ Festival of Contemporary Dance (Murska Sobota), Dance Week Festival (Zagreb), Burgenländischen Tanzwochen (Oberwart) and Trafo (Budapest);

2. to increase audience accessibility and mobility to culture by providing transport to audiences to help them more easily access activities across the border;

3. to generate dialogue and interest about the cutting edge issues of contemporary dance through informal gatherings and ;

4. to organically develop new collaborations among young professional dancers and artists whose work intersects the dance field (architects, designers, visual artists, musicians) by producing a series of cross-cultural contemporary dance improvisation evenings called Dance Communication Lab - DCL;

5. to foster new cross-cultural co-productions among artists as a result of the activities of DCL.

Partners:

Flota (Murska Sobota, SLO) www.flota.si

cie Frenak (Budapest, HU) www.dance-identity.at/cms

Dance Identity/D.ID (Pinkafeld, AT) www.oho.at

OHO (Oberwart, AT) www.frenak.hu

Hrvatski Institut za pokret i ples (Zagreb, HR) www.danceincroatia.com

Leaf Covered Figure comprises two main components and strategies. Both centre on the act of remaking and re-imagining. The first construct is titled  Leaf Covered Figure (see above) but is more widely known culturally as a Green Man. It comprises a human figure who has been bound from head to toe in green spring leaves and branches. For this work the artist has first restaged the tradition in rural Ireland, then with a team in Vienna remade the figure meticulously in 3D, each branch and twig virtually modelled, placed and animated in a process that has unfolded over 18 months. Leaf Covered Figure fluxes over time utilising a vocabulary of movement which extends from scans of actual dance movements in space. Using a novel three dimensional cinematic technique original movements from a human dancer are recorded in all dimensions using a motion capture system.

Minimum 3 years experience is required and you must be very familiar in working with collaborative projects.
This audition will be by invitation only
Address:  in Vienna at
TANZ*HOTEL | RESORT 1020,
Zirkusgasse 35, 1020 Wien,
Tel: 01/602 69 45
Date: 9th  September at 16.00 - 21.00 - First session and short list
Date: 11th  September at 09.00 -14.00– Final Session

To apply please send your CV with photo in electronic format to
Renata Polacow project manager renata@flame-uk.co
with copy to  info@jeanabreu.com

For further information you can check out the artists websites:
www.jeanabreu.com
www.Johngerrard.net

The International Dance Committee of ITI is collaborating with World Dance Alliance for the celebration of International Dance Day.
In 1995, in an effort to unite dance, the International Dance Committee entered into a collaborative effort for the celebration of International Dance Day with World Dance Alliance.

2008 International Dance Day Message

By Gladys Faith AGULHAS

The spirit of Dance has No colour, No selected shape or size
But Embraces the Power of Unity, Strength,
And Beauty found within us.

Each Dancing Soul, Young, Old, person livng with a disABILITY
Creates and transforms ideas into life changing moving Art.
Dance is the mirror reflecting the impossible made possible.
For all to touch, hear, feel and experience.

Sounds from our hearts and Soul is our rhythm,
Our every move reveals the history of mankind.
It is the element where the Human Spirit can embrace the ultimate Freedom.

Whenever our hands touch, something beautiful happens,
What the Soul remembers, the body portrays through movement.
Dance is therefore the healing force for all to access,
You are my eyes and I am your feet.

Celebrate INTERNATIONAL DANCE Day,
Use your Passion for Dance to heal each other,
Unify your dance community,
Most importantly be the Best that you can be in your Own Right,
We are able to stand unified through the Power and Spirit of Dance.

GLADYS FAITH AGULHAS

***

You are invited to use the International Dance Day texts and to circulate them. When you do so, please include the following mention,  and, if you display the material on Internet, please link to the ITI Internet site : http://www.iti.unesco.org

International Dance Day - 29th April
- Background -

International Dance Day Message
- Biography -

Authors of the International Dance Day Message 1982 - 2008

1982: Henrik NEUBAUER
1983: No message issued
1984: Yuri GRIGOROVITCH
1985: Robert JOFFREY
1986: Chetna JALAN
1987: Dance Committee Board
1988: Robin HOWARD
1989: Doris LAINE
1990: Merce CUNNINGHAM
1991: Hans VAN MANEN
1992: Germaine ACOGNY
1993: Maguy MARIN
1994: Dai AILIAN
1995: Murray LOUIS
1996: Maïa PLISSETSKAÏA
1997: Maurice BEJART
1998: Kazuo OHNO
1999: Mahmoud REDA
2000: Alicia ALONSO, Jirí KYLIÁN, Cyrielle LESUEUR
2001: William FORSYTHE
2002: Katherine DUNHAM
2003: Mats EK
2004: Stephen PAGE
2005: Miyako YOSHIDA
2006: His Majesty King Norodom SIHAMONI of Cambodia
2007: Sasha WALTZ
2008: Gladys Faith AGULHAS

For the second time now, the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples - HIPP) with its major project - Dance Week Festival (Tjedan suvremenog plesa - TSP), organizes at the end of April, a guest performance of a leading internationally acknowledged  contermporary dance company. Following last year’s presentation of Ballet Preljocaj’s “N”, introduction into 25th Dance Week Festival this year  Zagreb audiences will see the performance “Shaker” by israel Inbal Pinto Dance Company.

Inbal Pinto Danced Company fascinated local audieences already during its first appearance at the 15th Dance Week Festival, and especially memorable was their sold out performance in 2006 which got them the Dance Week Festival’s Audience Award during Dance Week Festival.

“Shaker” which will be presented on April 28 and 29 on the stage of Zagreb Youth Theatre (Zagreba?ko  kazalište mladih) was created in the 2006/07 season and for this production the choreographic team Inbal Pinto and Avshalom POlak  were awarded by the Israel Ministry of Culture and Education.

“Shaker” will officially announce the upcoming 25 Dance Week Festival, Croatia’s primary festival of contemporary dance which will take place in both Zagreb and in Rijeka from May 26 to June 3, this year.

The Festival offers a context to the development of new ideas, alongside world renown names and choreographic living legends exist trend setting authors and the space for emerging talent of new talent as well as a point for reflection on the art of dance within the overall Croatian culture and society.

As one of the oldest festivals in the region, DANCE WEEK FESTIVAL, has presented well over 500 works of internationally acclaimed choreographers.. Highlights of the Festival’s past programming include: Susanne Linke, Trisha Brown, Nederlands Dans Teater, Christina de Chatel, Batsheva Dance Company, PC and Emio Greco, Josef Nadj, Random Dance, CandoCo, Carol Brown, Truus Bronkhorst, Xavier Le Roy, Sankai Juku, Donald Byrd, Angelin Preljocaj, Akram Khan, Rosemary Butcher, Siobbhan Davies, Danielle Leveille, Holy Body Tattoo…to mention only some. The Festival has contributed to the preservation of a fragile but important regional network allowing for greater mobility of the arts. The festival has promoted and produced several generations of Croatian dance artists and has created bridges for international cultural exchange and collaboration, contributing to the increasing presence of a new generation of Croatian choreographers firmly connected to European centers and working both abroad as well as within the country (Ivana Muller, Andreja Bozic, Irma Omerzo, Bad Co, Marija Scekic, Marjana Krajac…).

An integral part of each Festival edition is the ancillary programming consisting of round-table discussions, exhibitions, workshops, informal meetings and networking sessions. The Festival takes place end of May/ beginning of June. Participation in the festival is by invitation only.

More about the festival at it’s official website: www.danceweekfestival.com

MAPA(Zagreb) during its most fruitful years, as it was at the time also supported through efforts of Dutch colleagues and Dutch government initiatives, delivered over 50 diverse workshops – which were realized in a form of production laboratories which taught new skills, initiated opportunities for exchange in experience and for artistic collaboration across disciplines and sectors throughout Europe. The project assisted with moving hundreds of emerging and established artists who through these new avenues found not only ways to collaborate with colleagues from other regions/ countries but also opportunities for professional growth, education; working with established European companies. While a number of these artists returned to their respective places of origin, many stayed behind in the countries who welcomed them and where they found fruitful ground to continue to engage in creative activity. Several of these artists continue working abroad and contributing to the cultures that embraced their talents (Holland, France, England, Germany…)

Through the relative short, highly dynamic period of MAPA in Croatia, several novel initiatives were introduced to the cultural milieu including seminars and practicum in arts management; light design for movement theatre; project management for independent productions; along with numerous workshops in mime, dance, movement theatre, dramaturgy and dance. Even after the bulk of the MAPAz programming shut down with the official closure of the MAPAZ office, the collaboration of those who participated in the many projects remains live to date.

As a result of all these activities we saw the formation of an informal network of artists and art professionals from Croatia, Czech, Slovakia, Roumania, Hungary, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, France, Holland…with recent revived interest in the project the network has expanded into Serbia and Macedonia.

Since its official inception in 1992 to date, the numbers of those involved in projects differed – at times it grew and then declined – depending on interests of those involved. Regardless, the network acted as a glue and facilitator for those that invested resources, talents, were prepared to share and exchange ideas and expertise and creativity. It was at the time a very new way of working and offering professional development through a traveling curriculum; somewhat of an interdisciplinary practical laboratory for young artists which not only enhanced artists’ skills but more importantly thought them a new way of thinking about production as well as the very process of creation.

Even before the official opening of the office of MAPA in Amsterdam (June 30, 1993) the process in Zagreb and in Croatia was well underway and was hosted by the umbrella organization of Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples) which in 1990 was the first non-government not for profit in Croatia with the objective to assist the development of young artists in the independent dance sector; additionally the organization took to produce the international festival Dance Week Festival and also worked in areas of promoting Croatian contemporary dance (especially platforms and presentations such as the ones in Denmark and Sweden (1994), Holland (1996), Czech (1999), Italy (2006); archiving and documentation culminating in specialized publications including Dance News; and, in 1995 the publication of the first ever catalogue of Croatian dance and movement theatre (in English) distributed world-wide.

Numerous individuals active today in the Croatian cultural scene, as well as several that are successfully creating a name for themselves internationally have been involved in a number of projects organized and/ or produced by MAPAZ and by the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance: Ivana Muller, Andreja Boži?, Branko Cvjeti?anin, Branka Cvjeti?anin, Alexandar Acev, Matko Raguž, Nataša Lušeti?, Edvin Liveri?, Žak Valenta, Mirjana Smoli?, Irma Omerzo, Sanjin Dragojevi?, Emil Mateši?, Slaven Dellale, Deni Šesni?, Vladimir Stojsavljevi?, Nensi Lazi?, Sergej Pristaš, Vili Matula, Stanko Juzbaši?…

A selection of early MAPA(Z) projects include:

(1994; 1995) – project leader: Sergej Pristaš

- Labin Project – Collaboraiton to revive an abandoned mime into a cultural house: Grff Theatre (Holland), Labin Art Express along with a number of Croatian artists (which incuded amongs others: Stanko Juzbaši?, Nataša Lušeti?, Deni Šesni?, Darko Rundek…) as well as artists from Italy, Czech, Austria, Holland, Spain…

- Light and Scenography for Movement Theatre (1993, 1994, 1996 – Zagreb, 1998 Zadar)

- Mime workshop with Wilfred van der Peppel

- Musicality of Movement (1994)

- Principles of Biomechanics with Gennadi Bogdanov

- Arts Administration (in collaboration with School for Arts and Media Management, University Utrecht)

- Presentation of Croatian independent theatre and dance scene at Het Veem in Amsterdam (1996)

- Light and Movement laboratory – Zadar (1998)

Publication:

“Moving Minds – a network of talent” (a report on the mission and work of the Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA) compiled by Jan Middendorp, Amsterdam 1999.

www.mapa.nl

Conducted by Japanese artists specialising in media performance technology, DJs, VJs,choreographers, dancers, classical musicians, singers, rappers, sound designers, programmers, architects, fashion designers, photographers, visual artists, filmmakers and everyone interested in artistic and technological interventions are invited to join this two-day intensive workshop. This is an opportunity to explore and play along with a variety of creative senses using media performance technology.

Participation is limited to 20 people. Fee is 100 Euro. Deadline for registration is on 30 April 2008.
For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/zensors

© brain store project & guests

1.-9.June 2008
Burgas, Black Sea, Bulgaria

Target groups:
The BSP summer school is a programme of workshops, trainings and researches, addressed to actors, performers, dancers, choreographers, directors, researchers in the field of performing arts and other contemporary artists interested in the programme.

Programme:
The programme will include daily Feldenkreis classes, dance classes, as well as the conceptual work with text, body, video/multimedia, writing and other elements necessary for the creation of a performance. At the end, the participants will be able to present the results of their work.

Structure of the programme:
- In the morning, the participants will be able to choose between Feldenkrais, lead by Paul Neuningen- Vienna and Body training class, lead by the choreographer Galina Borissova.
- In the afternoon, there is a creative and practical workshop, lead by members of brain store project under the theme

“Reality & fiction”

Reality: research and individual interpretation of existing reality media formats with existing examples from TV, internet etc.
Fiction: creation of visual and body images based on the examination of Science Fiction models
The studies and their results will lead to the creation of a complex artistic performative product.

The working process will include: practical daily tasks, based on the main theme, e.g. working with a particular text, film, visual material. The participant should elaborate his personal artistic statement. There will be a stress on a site-specific research by the means of video, photography and multimedia and by a research trip to the island St.Anastassia. In addition, the participants will be able to work conceptionally with the garment, its flexibility and transformation possibilities and its function in the performance.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to brain_store_project@abv.bg till April 15th, 2008 and include:
- a CV
- a motivation letter
- a personal photo

Costs:
- participation fee of 150 EUR to be transferred till May 1st, 2008
- workshops’ and classes’ fee for the whole period of 340 EUR to be paid by the beginning of the programme – June 1st, 2008
- travel expenses to Burgas
- visa costs (if a visa is necessary)

Conditions:

- accommodation – 9 nights in a double room in a hotel in the centre of the city
- workshops and trainings during the whole period
- research trip to the nearby island St.Anastassia
- opening reception and closing party
- meeting and exchange with local artists
- 1 day off for sightseeing and personal excursion

Workshop leaders:
?brain ?store ?project – creative concepts’ store is a long-term project for interdisciplinary work, founded by a group of artists working in the field of contemporary arts.

The members of ?brain ?store ?project are the performing artists Willy Prager, Mila Odazhieva, Iva Sveshtarova, and the designer Neli Mitewa. Their common work includes the realisation of own and co-productions with local and international artists such as Thomas Lehmen, Thomas Plischke, Xavier Le Roy, Alan Good etc.
?brain ?store ?project gives a platform for the creating and producing of own artistic projects in the field of performing and visual arts, fashion design and their boundary forms.
The core of the projects and actions of ?brain ?store ?project is built by artistic interventions, characterized by co-authorship: the common creating of all fragments of a performance, involving the “everyday-audience” into an spontaneous cultural context.

• Education (research and educational programme)
• Artistic collaboration (production and co-production)
• Promotion and information exchange

The core activity of Nomad Dance Academy is the educational program, which gathers potentials and coordinates resources on local and regional levels.

NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY is beginning with the Educational programme 2008, dedicated to 11 emerging artists in contemporary dance from the Balkans. These artists will live, learn, work and move together for 3 months, creating a network for future artistic collaboration. It will be a dynamic process of learning, exchange and creation and will take place in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia.

NOMAD / Educational programme is made to improve and encourage exchange, education and creation in contemporary dance in the Balkans through a set of workshops, lectures, study visits and encounters with artists and theoreticians from all related countries and abroad.
This is an opportunity for young dancers and choreographers to upgrade their artistic expression, to enhance their career at its early stage and to make a ground for future international collaboration.

NOMAD 2008 will provide daily professional open classes, workshops and lectures from contemporary dance practice and theory, space for individual research and contacts with local and international artists and institutions.
The programme offers 11 scholarships that cover the program fee, travel expenses and accommodation during 3 months (March-June).

NOMAD’s educational programme route
16th March - 31st March - Skopje
1st April - 14th April - Sofia
15th April - 8th May - Belgrade
9th May - 24th May - Zagreb
25th May - 9th June - Ljubljana

NOMAD teachers and lecturers 08
Galina Borissova, Selma Banich, Martin Sonderkamp, Francesco Scavetta, Mala Kline, Nikolina Pristas, Goran Sergej Pristas, Isabelle Schad, Andreja Rauch, Teodora Popova, Eric Lamoureux, Ana Vujanovic, Bojana Kunst, Suzana Milevska, Sonja Zdravkovska - Dzeparovska, Elena Jovanova Marcevska, Tzvetelina Iossifova, Neli Mitewa, Borut Separovic, Maja Djurinovic, Rok Vevar, Venelin Shurelov, Igor Remeta, Tomaz Strucl, Emir Besirevic, Brane Zorman, Igor Medjugorac, Miha Klinar, Mateja Rebolj, Andreh Intihar, Alma Selimovic

NOMAD students 08
Ivaylo Dimitrov and Denitsa Georgieva (Bulgaria); Kire Gjorevski and Kire Miladinoski(Macedonia); Ana Dubljevic (Serbia); Ljiljana Mihajlovic, Nina Bozic and Nina Jan (Slovenia);Marko Jastrevski and Rina Kotur (Croatia); Jasmina Kazazic and Elma Selman (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and as a guest student Elia Mrak Blumberg (USA)

Partner organizations in NOMAD Dance Academy are:

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tanzelarija, Bulgaria - Brain Store Project, Croatia - TALA dance center, Macedonia - Lokomotiva- Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Serbia - Station Service for contemporary dance and Slovenia - Fico Balet.

More information on programme: www.nomaddanceacademy.org

NOMAD Dance academy is supported by Swiss Cultural Programme,
European Cultural Foundation and Kultur Kontakt.

Local supporters:

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Goethe Institut, Sarajevo; Institut Francais, Sarajevo; Embassy of Austria, Sarajevo; Galerija 10m2, Sarajevo; Sarajevo; Secondary Music School, Sarajevo;
Elementary Music and Ballet School, Novo Sarajevo;
City of Sarajevo; SARTR (Sarajevo Ratni Teatar)

Slovenia
Bunker productions, Ljubljana; KUD Pozitiv; PTL / Dance theatre Ljubljana;
Theatre Glej, Ljubljana; Ministry of culture Slovenia;
City Ljubljana - department for culture and research

Bulgaria
Goethe -Institut Bulgarien, Sofia

Serbia
Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia; City Council for Cuture Belgrade;
Italian Institute of Culture, Belgrade; Regional Creative Atelier “Jozef Nady”,
Kanjiza; Magacin u Kraljevica Marka, Belgrade; Other Scene, Belgrade

Croatia
City Council for Culture Zagreb; ITI UNESCO Zagreb; Goethe Institut;
Royal Netherland Embassy; Generalturist

Macedonia
Macedonian National Theatre; Music Ballet High School “Ilija Nikolovski - Luj”;
British Council - Macedonia; City of Skopje; Centre regional des Lettres de
Basse-Normandie (Le CRL de Basse-Normandie); Centre Choregraphique
National de Caen, Basse-Normandie