Take the opportunity to meet with Cultural Actors in rural areas. Ask them questions, talk about their challenges, understand their experiences in working in non-urban areas and learn from other contexts. Sit back and listen, or help solve the issues we are facing in thinly populated areas.

AREA - Arts in Rural European Areas started as a working group within IETM. In October 2020, it became an independent network that continues to contribute to IETM.

AREA is a new network that supports arts in rural areas by creating exchanges of experiences, researching working methods, and collecting data and resources. It stimulates advocacy on a local, regional, national and European level. AREA includes all disciplines. Members are artists, creators, organisers, policymakers and scientists from all continents.

Moderators

Henk Keizer, AREA Network, Denmark

Jean Vinet, AREA Network, France

Speakers

Aleksandra Miladinović, SKC Markovac, Serbia

Tamás Oláh, Salašarsko pozorište, Serbia

A regular fixture since 2010, this session gives delegates an insight into what’s happening in the world of music theatre and sonic arts around Europe.

A space for members and non-member participants, who are presenting and producing sound and music theatre, to share information regarding resources, new works, venues and festivals, opportunities, and more.

An open discussion forum prompted by a series of short presentations, the session will also give you an opportunity to learn more about local artists’ practices and approaches to the creation of their work.

Please check the accessibility of the venue here.

Moderator

Josh Armstrong, Cryptic, United Kingdom

Speakers

Ana Vrbaški, Alice in Wonderland, Serbia

Marko Dinjaški, Alice in Wonderland, Serbia

Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, Hleb Teatar, Serbia

Jugoslav Hadžić, Hleb Teatar, Serbia

Join the conversation during this presentation and Q&A on how the programme and features of the Bitef Festival and the showcase of IETM Belgrade have been curated, and what the artistic vision and challenges were.

Speakers

Ivan Medenica, Bitef, Serbia

This session will have live captions in English.

We are excited to announce that we will be launching the IETM Environmental Working Group at IETM Belgrade. This group has been long overdue and will aim to push the green transition of the IETM community forward.

This working group will work towards creating a common green code of conduct for IETM and its network, and also reflect on how to make the arts the leading force in environmental processes in society. 

It will also be a space to share the best practices and practical solutions on how to make the performing arts sector more green at all levels. 

Join us for this first session in Belgrade!

Learn more about IETM working groups here.

Moderators

Barna Petryani, Pro Progressione, Hungary

Tímea Kókai-Nagy, Pro Progressione, Hungary

Gry Worre Hallberg, Sisters Hope, Denmark

01:00 - 02:00 AEDT | 00:00 - 01:00 JST/KST | 23:00 - 00:00 SGT | 18:00 - 19:00 EET | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | 11:00 - 12:00 EST | 08:00 - 09:00 PST

Join the live stream via Howlround

Dance as a modern art form emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, against the backdrop of consolidating industrial capitalism.

Just as the body and movement of masses were becoming subjected to the dictate of backbreaking machines, modern dance constituted itself around the choreographic exploration of body and movement, liberated from that machinic coercion.The history of modern dance can thus be read as a dialectical opposite of the transformation of commodified labour. Over the last hundred years, that opposition between the coercive and the liberated has crumbled and transformed by the growing flexibilisation and precarisation of labour relations.

The labouring body is increasingly enjoined to be free and enterprising, while the dancing body is increasingly demanded to show itself labouring to justify its privilege to free artistic exploration.

Our opening keynote will retrace the entwined historical trajectories of dance and labour and speculate on what dance portends for the understanding of the contemporary, algorithmically-commanded, on-demand forms of labour.

Speakers

Tomislav Medak, BADco., Croatia

Ása Richardsdóttir, IETM, Belgium

Ivan Medenica, Bitef Festival, Serbia
 

This session will be captioned and broadcasted online.