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“Delusional perhaps but Constellation always hopes we are up to more than just providing popular entertainment, an idea occasionally reinforced when practitioners of artforms outside of music seek to collaborate with our artists.[...] Our humble projects perhaps receive no greater commendation than when they are married with contemporary dance artists [...].” Don Wilkie from Constellation Records

“Sonzai-Kan” means in Japanese: “to sense a presence of something or somebody”. What happens if the sight tells you are meeting a human, but your senses cannot recognize a human being? What determines if one is alive? And quite the opposite: how does a body without life act?

Deschooling Classrom Project at the Cultural Center MKM in Belgrade will host on December 18 to 20, 2009 the working meetings and methodological laboratory conducted by Bojana Cvejić, co-editor of the lexicon of poetic terms of East Dance Academy. Participants in this program are Belgrade- and Skopje-based members of the group Notions, operating as part of the project Deschooling Classroom (2009/10)

HOMMAGE à trois is a piece based on questioning authorship and ownership of ideas; we are dealing with stretching the territories of copying and originality; we work from an understanding that paying tribute establishes authority, while at the same time undermines it.

Štromajer and Zorman are preparing a new Internet ballet – Ballettikka Internettikka Nipponnikka, broadcasting live from Minami Torishima island, Japan. Paciific Ocean. Action to be performed: At the same time that two Suns simultaneously rise from the Pacific Ocean, two robots will walk/dive into the ocean, dancing an early morning Internet Ballet at the easternmost point of Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun.

Internationally renowned for her activity in the digital reality of Second Life, Gazira Babeli is born there in spring 2006. She is a character in the Matrix, something in between the Oracle and Neo. What she does has been either dubbed as bug, virus, performance or art; what we can say about it is that it subverts the traditional notions of space, time, body, identity and behavior we inherited from our daily experience.

Brechtian documentary about the brutal repression of the anti-NATO events in Bucharest in 2008. The reconstruction was filmed during a 4 day workshop as participants analyzed their memories and wrote the script together. In the end, there was no unique reconstruction - the same moment of history is re-told through 3 perspectives: the 'objective,' the subjective and the collective.

This is the second edition of the LocoMotion contemporary dance festival that, this year as well, aims to present an overview of the current discourses and practices in the field of contemporary dance, here and throughout the world. In five festival evenings, the audience will have opportunity to see and communicate with different dance creations, film projection and music concert.

Prelom Collective in collaboration with Cultural Centre REX invites you to a Frontbildung lecture. The lecture will focus on different methods of analysing the struggle of cultural workers in Hamburg. Combining performance and lecture, Frontbildung will dedicate special attention to the structure of self-organized groups in relation to the current reorganization of institutions.

BDP 2009 will present the latest production of BADco (Croatia), Rosana Hribar & Gregor Luštek (Slovenia), Madalina Dan (Romania), Dragana Bulut, Gillie Kleiman & Lígia Soares (Serbia), Griffon dance co. (Greece), Kinesthetic Project (Bulgaria) and Aleksandar Georgiev (Macedonia).