The text emerged from a need to think further on the question “… what dance practice can and could become in our wider environment at this moment in time?” included in the editorial letter of Choreographic Turn#7_Deborah Encounters 2 , a 5-day event organized and produced by the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and took place in Ljubljana in April 2023.
The Summer School was held in Struga in the south-western part of Northern Macedonia, where I have never been before. The context was new for me – as it was for all of us. After having spent the prequel few days in Skopje – a city touched with the monumentosis compulsion, I found this decentralizing decision to meet in Struga bold and tempting, and soon I also realized that it brought my thinking about curatorial practices down to earth, maybe even to the underlands of its mission, to the very context of where we are, what we can(not) give to the context, what we can(not) take from it, what temporalities we still keep in our bodies, and with who we would be shifting them in days to come.
This program is realised as an addition of Critical Practice - training for emerging dance writers, initiated within apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-founded by the Creative Programme of the European Union.
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