MEDIATHEK

The starting desire in the creation of this dance performance is the question: in what way can archiving dance art be an artistic practice? The author's exploration of this desire takes place through a transgenerational creative exchange with six choreographers/directors/dancers/performers of the local independent dance scene: Nela Antonović, Anđelija Todorović, Jelena Jović, Tanja Pajović, Boris Čakširan, and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić. Together, these six artists are performers of this performance, that is, "archive in motion" - embodying insufficiently recorded notes of movements, experiences, memories, oral histories from their artistic works - at a time when there is no official institutional framework for archiving the local dance scene. Through the transgenerational (self) questioning of physical, social, emotional, economic, ideological and other (mostly invisible) vulnerabilities behind their cultural and artistic work and practice, the tactics, principles, (re)positioning and contradictions of their self-sustainability also being reexamined as a form of resistance, criticism and togetherness in the turbulent socio-political circumstances of work and life during the last forty years. What do Antonović, Todorović, Jović, Pajović, Čakširan and Krsmanović Tasić have to say about all this from today's perspective (artistically and personally)? What do their bodies carry and hide? In what ways is the impermanence of archiving particular time and history reflected through the impermanence of the artistic performance itself (dance)? How does dance art (of the independent scene) survive as a relevant social, cultural and political tool for reshaping the social body? The desire to make solid history will for sure end up in failure. The only question is, for whom? 

Authorship and choreography: Igor Koruga
Performers: Nela Antonović, Anđelija Todorović, Jelena Jović, Tatjana Pajović, Boris Čakširan, and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić;
Dramaturgy: Milica Ivić
Composition: Luka Mejdžor
Spinning dress design and wig making: Boris Čakširan
Lighting design: Boris Butorac
Coordination: Marko Pejović, Filip Perić
Production: Marijana Cvetković
Graphic design: Mane Radmanović
PR: CommunicArt
Photos: Vladimir Opsenica
Translation: Nevena Delić

Production: Stanica Service for contemporary dance with the support of the Dance On, Pass On, Dream On project, the Creative Europe program and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia

Partners: Cultural Center Magacin, Bitef Theater 

In Serbian with English surtitles

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