Residencies 2024
Naledi Majola
21st of May – 23rd of June
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Nefeli Gioti and Elena Novakovits
22nd of Octobre – 17th of November
We are happy, excited and proud to present our 2024 season of residencies.
In May and June we will get to host Naledi Majola. In October and November, we will be hosting Nefeli Gioti and Elena Novakovits.
Naledi Majola is researching the performance of language through choral text. They will work around how text can destabilize gendered language, to imagine and enact the boundlessness of Blackness and gender diverse identities. In Black vernaculars from South Africa to the US, words can embody and perform to apply to a wider range of people. These kinds of queer embodiments and performances of language can destabilize and broaden fixed gender categories.
Nefeli Gioti and Elena Novakovits will research and explore what dance can do and what it cannot do. They will explore potentialities of togetherness in collaborative processes, and how, even if we love dance, can we critically think about its importance in the Western context? They have an urgency to understand further the promises and dreams circulating in the discourses of dance and choreography, how they are generated, what are they carrying with them and what they render invisible.
During the residencies, Naledi will show their work In Flux during Revolve Festival 24-25th of May. They will also have a residency showing/sharing for a bipoc and LGBTIQ+ community. Nefeli Gioti and Elena Novakovits will have a workshop related to the theme of their work. They would like to enrich the process by adding multiple voices to their perspectives and creating space for critical thinking and doing.
We want to thank everyone applying to our open call for very inspiring, broad and ambitious proposals. We had 133 international applications and 40 national applications. It was difficult to choose only two, yet the process was very inspiring for us.
Naledi Majola is a South African artist-researcher and performer, currently based in Berlin, Germany. With interests in Black histories and gender, Naledi uses movement, vocal practice, and writing to approach questions around these topics with decisive uncertainty.
Elena Novakovits is a cultural worker in the fields of dance, choreography and performance: dramaturg, researcher, writer, and curator. She collaborates with independent artists in the context of their artistic trajectory and works in cultural event production. She curates performative, discursive, and educational encounters and platforms. She co-runs the independent curatorial platform undercurrent. She has been selected as a fellow in the fourth cycle of Critical Practice (Made in Yu), where the collective systering was formed. Her research interests focus on ecologies of work, politics of labour, curatorial and dramaturgical practices, and cultural models.
Nefeli Gioti (she/her) is a dance researcher, choreographer and dancer who works between Greece and Sweden. She has completed her MA in choreography at the University of Arts in Stockholm as well as her BA studies in Environmental Science in Greece. Her work delves into the narrative operation in the fields of dance and choreography by exploring discursive practices. Website: https://giotinefeli.wixsite.com/research-choreograph
