CoFestival

Based on the principles of cooperation and participation, CoFestival is an international festival of contemporary dance held annually since 2012. Embracing contemporary dance as a broad spectrum of aesthetics and practices, the festival presents an ambitious programme of dance performances, seminars, lectures, workshops, film screenings, and book presentations, making it the largest contemporary dance festival in Slovenia.

The bulk of the festival takes place at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture. Some of the other venues used are the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, the Mladinsko Theatre, and the Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station.

The festival is a member of the European Dancehouse Network.

Background

When CoFestival was first held in 2012, it was the result of a merger of three different dance festivals and initiatives, coming together for various reasons. One was the PLESkavica Festival, an outgrowth of the international Nomad Dance Academy project (produced by Fičo Balet and the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia). Another was the European project Modul-dance, led by Kino Šiška. The third was Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives, a biennial production still running and organised by Dance Theatre Ljubljana.

Programming

From the outset, the festival has been guided by the principles of cooperation and co-working, highlighting collective aesthetic forms and dance practices. Its programme is devised by a curatorial team comprising dancers, theoreticians and producers Dragana Alfirević, Mitja Bravhar, Jasmina Založnik, and Rok Vevar, with Goran Bogdanovski and Dejan Srhoj contributing until 2017 and 2019 respectively. Conceiving choreography as an expanded practice, the team approaches festival curation as a procedural endeavour rooted in collaboration and the coexistence of differences, shaping a programme of performances, improvisations, lecture-performances, restagings and reconstructions of works by canonical contemporary dance artists, exhibitions, seminars and talks.

Since 2015, CoFestival has grown into the largest international contemporary dance festival in Slovenia. It presents emerging and established local choreographers alongside intruiging international choreographic voices, fostering professional exchange and critical reflection. The festival also ventures into the intersection of art and technology, as reflected in presentations of projects developed within the European project MODINA, of which Kino Šiška is a member.

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Gallery

Isabelle Schad: Collective Jumps, performance, CoFestival, 2016.

Dejan Srhoj: Nao, the Robot, installation-performance, Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, 2018.

CoFestival

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Background

Programming

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