In the last two decades we have witnessed numerous re-stagings, reconstructions or historical stage studies of repertoire from different phases of contemporary dance. Some of

VENUS: between captivity and flight is a performance based on Sandro Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus depicting the moment of her emergence from sea

CoFestival was created in 2012 when the festivals Pleskavica (Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija), Ukrep, a festival of dance perspectives (until 2013, Dance Theatre Ljubljana), and

At Dance Optometry, a workshop for future dance critics, we will contextualise the performances featured in this year’s CoFestival programme, address the contradictory relationship between

The website of choreographer Isabelle Schad, who was honoured for her outstanding artistic development in contemporary dance as part of the German Dance Award in

Choreographer and dance artist Andreja Podrzavnik, this year’s recipient of the Ksenija Hribar Award and the Zupančič Award for choreographic achievements in the last two-year

Jonathan Burrows first appeared in Slovenia in 2001 together with Jan Ritsema in the duet Weak Dance Strong Questions (2001). Since then, he has presented

Before moving to Berlin, Polish dancer and choreographer Anna Nowicka lived and worked in Ljubljana for a while, which is why many artists in the

Israeli dancer and choreographer Roni Chadash addresses the socialising moment of the construction of stereotypical femininity in her solo Goofy, which she entitled with a

The well-known title phrase, borrowed from Trisha Brown, very accurately describes the problem that emerged in public when dancers and choreographers in contemporary dance began

Movement Research practical conference will focus on contemporary approaches and practices, artists whose work, at least in certain segments, is devoted to movement research in

Bulgarian artist Yasen Vasilev is a dramaturge, poet, playwright and choreographer whose talents present a somewhat surprising combination of artistic practices and media, which in

In the duet Figured, with which she was selected for the German Dance Platform programme in 2020, choreographer and dancer Sheena McGrandles creates a choreographic-cinematic

The issue of space is very fundamentally linked to movement research, as this is only possible if the conditions for it exist in terms of

At CoFestival, the international festival of contemporary dance, we have always been interested in liminal stage works or hybrids that transcend disciplinarities and can be

The new issue of Maska, the performing arts journal, focuses on the use of voice in contemporary dance with its central theme, Voice of Dance.

The choreographic work of Christos Papadopoulos, who debuted at CoFestival with his collective in 2017 with the performance Elvedon and opened the festival the following

In the last decade, after becoming a certified master of the body mind method that began to develop in the USA in the 1960s (pioneered