Igor Koruga | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

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• Biography
• The Project
• Organized by

• Igor Koruga

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  Igor Koruga works as an independent artist in the field of performing arts (contemporary dance and choreography). He graduated with a master's degree in ethnology and anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, as well as from the Department of Solo / Dance / Authorship at the University of Arts in Berlin. At the moment he is finishing a DAS Third research program in DAS Graduate scholl at the University of Arts in Amsterdam.

  Koruga is a member of the Station Service for Contemporary Dance and the Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia (UBUS).

  Koruga applies choreography as a tool for the interpretation of socio-political phenomena, which condition artistic production and knowledge distribution. He is the author of several works: Closeness of Touch (2022); One, two, three, comrade, come dance with me (2021), Hopelessness (2017), Only Mine Alone (2016), etc.

  Koruga works as a an associate for stage movement in theatre plays and film, and as a dramaturge in the field of dance. As a performer, Koruga has collaborated with various theaters in Europe (Dansens Hus, Stockholm; Weld Stockholm; Museum Quartier Vienna; Hubbel am Ufer HAU Berlin, Kammerspiele Munich etc.).

  As an assistant professor in the field of choreography, he taught at the Institute for Artistic Dance in Belgrade (2015-2017). He has mentored many artists of the younger generation of the local dance scene through various educational platforms (Puzzle, Station Service for Contemporary Dance; Dance Survivors, by Goethe Institute Belgrade; You Perform, by Yugoslav Drama Theatre Belgrade / Talia Theater Hamburg);

  Koruga is a member of the team for archiving the performing arts practices of the independent cultural and artistic scene in the region (Nomad dance Academy) since 2015. As an author of theoretical texts and research, he has published papers in prominent regional journals in the field of performing arts theory (Maska Ljubljana, Walking theory Belgrade, Movements Zagreb, etc.).

  So far he has been a scholarship holder by: Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart (2019-2021); Theater Theater International Forum, Berlin Festival (2020); Tanzstipendium of the Mayor of Berlin (2013); DanceWEB (2009); Nomad Dance Academy (2009); He won the first prize and the Critics' Award at the Festival of Choreographic Miniatures (2015), the award for the most original research of one of the segments of theatrical language at the 43rd Infant Festival (2016), and the annual award of the National Organization for Rare Diseases of Serbia (NORBS). suffering from rare diseases in Serbia through artistic work (2015).

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• Why not?

  16.-29.07.2022.

  Project Why not? searches for the embodiment and definition of today's (hopeless, isolated, scared, over-identified) body of the individual and the affective space of care between (at least) two people/entities, as a practice that can be further developed with the collective (audience). In such a framework, the authors specifically investigate the technique of unison, i.e. "sameness" as a performing means of dance and as a cultural-artistic practice that carries with it an important historical framework of application: from the multi-purpose aesthetic-poetic application in artistic works of different epochs in the history of dance development (in the 20th century) to a targeted ideological and technological tool for shaping the social body of various social orders (communism, fascism, capitalism, etc.). The goal of researching unison in the choreographic sense is to study the space for creating glitches through which differences on the affective, cognitive, physical level and time will be articulated, in the physical sense, to articulate multiple identity transformations as spaces of different social and physical powers and abilities, and thus also as a basis for political, engaged and critical association and co-existence today.

  The second part of the artist residency took place from 15/8/2022 to 26/8/2022.

• Artistic organisation Kabinet

  Artistic organisation Kabinet is founded in 2008 in Rijeka. Kabinet operates in the field of performing arts (with emphasis on dance art), researching possibilities of interdisciplinary cooperation with visual art and new media. Artistic director of Kabinet is Ivana Kalc, freelance dance artist.

  The project "Why not?"/"Zašto ne?" is coproduced with Stanica - servis za savremeni ples and Croatian Cultural Centre in Sušak (HKD).