
11 th International Festival of Contemporary Dance 25 th of November – 1 st of December 2022 www.cofestival.si CoFestival 2022 can be divided into three
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
The idea of the interdisciplinary meeting »Ornaments, Masses and the Emergence of Urban Cultures« was stimulated by the publication of the Slovenian translation of the
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
Carry On is a performance in which eight experienced dance, theatre and music artists weave a performance from reflections on their personal past, memory, doubt
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 Slovenian Theatre Publisher Network, which includes Emanat Institute, the MGL Library, Maska Ljubljana and The Slovenian Theatre Institute – SLOGI, was established with the
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