NAM ChoreoLab is a modular research choreography lab with the aim of re-reading the Non-Aligned Movement/s – by way of the historicism AND futurism of the ‘days of future past’ as well as the urgency of the current alignments and antagonisms, in relation to the on-going (queer) feminist and decolonial critiques and struggles, also the political and cultural, ultimately choreographic (self)governance.

The Non-Aligned Movement was set up as a movement of Third World states and Socialist Yugoslavia, rejecting the ‘double blackmail’ of the Cold War bipolarity of the US/USSR, advocating for an ‘alternative globalisation’ by challenging (neo)imperialism and (neo)colonialism.

The team aligns at the intersection of feminist dramaturgies, contextualised somatic practices, choreographic subjects, speculative and performative theory as well as archive and memory. They use decolonial historicism AND futurism to re-assess – and re-align – Non-Alignment (along with the ‘singularity’ of Socialist Yugoslavia) for contemporary audiences . The showing combines choreography installation with intermedia archive and lecture performance.

NAM ChoreoLab has been conceived and is being developed by the curatorial team of the (Non) Aligned Movements project (2021) (by way of Nomad Dance Academy): choreographers and performers Sonja Pregrad (Zagreb), Ana Dubljević (Beograd) and Viktorija Ilioska (Skopje), along with independent researcher and performer Dražen Dragojević (Berlin/Ljubljana). 

Research, choreography, archive, performance, reader: Sonja Pregrad, Ana Dubljević, Viktorija Ilioska, Dražen Dragojević

A project of Tanzfabrik Kreuzberg gUG, co-funded by the European Union as part of (NON)ALIGNED MOVEMENTS / NAM.