Moving Balkans

Moving Balkans – the Regional Contemporary Dance Platform is a collaboration of dance professionals (presenters, dance houses, experts and promoters) from the geographical Balkans aiming to advance the contemporary dance in the region and to make it competitive within the European context through a long-term regional partnership network, activities that increase artist mobility, co-creations, empowerment of the region’s dance professionals and operators through capacity building and awareness raising. With 11 partners and 7 regional associate partners, the project covers a vast geographic area of the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Türkiye).

The MovingBalkans is initiated in the moment when the regional cooperation is reinforced (and more than ever necessary) across several other sectors, where efforts for reconciliation have been ongoing and slow and tensions are again on the rise in the Balkans amidst the war in Ukraine, post-Covid and other economic impacts. Its intent is to activate a series of actions over 36-months period to build up, amplify and expand the reach of achievements to date and to use the expertise and experiences of more mature pan European networks and festivals/national service providers (European Dancehouse Network, Aerowaves, Pan-Andria, French Institute, Goethe Institute, Bureau Ritter gUG, MasDanza, IceHot Nordic Platform) to inspire, learn from and implement best practices. Through curated showcases/festivals, series of workshops, the Exchange Programme, co-productions and touring of works (including VR and slow touring) underpinned by audience building initiatives and dynamic communications and marketing actions, we aim to strengthen connectivity of operators in the Balkan region, raise awareness for contemporary practices amongst local/regional audiences and European markets. [Source: FTOP.]

En-Knap Productions

(Partner)

All projects of Slovenian producer

Aerowaves

Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

The Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia (CDAS)

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Derida Dance Center (leader)

Bulgaria (EU)
Ustanova studentski kulturni centar u Novom Sadu (SKCNS) (partner)

Republic of Serbia
Institute for movement and dance (partner)

Croatia (EU)
Hrvatski kulturni dom na Susaku (partner)

Croatia (EU)
Albania Dance Meeting (partner)

Albania
Dance Cultural Centre UNITIVA (partner)

Greece (EU)
Interart Culture Centre (partner)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
National Dance Centre Bucharest (partner)

Romania (EU)
Istanbul Fringe International Performing Arts Festival (partner)

Turkey

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age