CoFestival is one of the central Slovenian and regional dance festivals, created as a co-production between the public institution Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška and the non-governmental organization Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia. We have been creating it since 2012. The current curatorial team consists of Dragana Alfirević, Mitja Bravhar, and Rok Vevar; in the past, Jasmina Založnik, Dejan Srhoj, Irena Tomažin Zagoričnik, Goran Bogdanovski, and others also collaborated on the festival.

In the second half of 2011, members of the Balkan dance network Nomad Dance Academy met in Skopje (North Macedonia) to develop a pedagogical program within an EU project then called Jardin d’Europe, as part of a program segment titled Teaching the Teachers. The aim was to create a teaching format that would involve multiple teachers simultaneously in a studio setting and connect practical work with the history and theory of dance. We created a pedagogical dance format that we named Coteaching.

My colleague and I have been collaborating with the members of the Pokretnica collective for twelve years. Over the years, this collaboration has taken various forms, culminating in 2024 with their invitation to co-create a performance in Novi Sad. We then returned the invitation: let's conceive and create a performance together! And we asked ourselves whether, and in what way, this invitation would change the working and personal relationships between us.

NATURE is an ongoing dance project in which we explore movement in dialogue and the ways of seeing and being seen. NATURE raises questions about the function of art and live performance today, within the social and political environment in which we live, and asks, “Can we view dance as we view nature; can we situate ourselves within the environment of dance as we situate ourselves within nature?”

Dragana Alfirević se je udeležila srečanja partnerske mreže GPS / Global Practice Sharing, ki povezuje plesne prakse med ZDA ter Vzhodno in Srednjo Evropo. Mreža letos obeležuje 10 let delovanja. Srečanje poteka v New Yorku med 7. in 9. januarjem. Dragana je predstavila izkušnjo sodelovanja s Keithom Hennessyjem ter zasnovo prihajajočega gostovanja luciane achugar, ki prihaja v Ljubljano v letošnjem letu.