Feedback on the Beyond Front@ Project and Stipend Experience
Author: Ingeborg Zackariassen. Participating in the Beyond Front@ project during 2025 has been deeply valuable for my artistic and journalistic practice. The stipend allowed me to undertake three trips that would otherwise have been financially impossible: to Kraków for Four Seasons, to Zagreb for the Dance Week Festival, and to Budapest for Sissi Dance Week Festival. […]
Dance Critics’ Residencies and Stipend Programme: Final Report
The final report of the Dance Critics’ Residencies and Stipend Programme is now available. This comprehensive document traces the journey of emerging dance critics within the Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project. The report provides an overview of three international residencies held in Budapest, Krakow, and Celje/Maribor, followed by a year-long mentoring and stipend programme. It […]
Report from recipient of Critic’s Stipend as a part of the Critic’s Residency programme
Author: Zuzanna Berendt. Between February and November 2025, I took part in the Critic’s Residency programme as a participant selected by the Kraków Dance Theatre. During this time, I attended three festivals, and my travels resulted in critical texts devoted to the performances I saw there. In addition, after attending the performance Dirty Dancing and after […]
Process: the key to in-depth Contemporary Dance?
Author: Ingeborg Zackariassen. In the world of Contemporary Dance, there is one word we all seem to use a lot: Process. But what does it actually mean, and can we manage without it? Dance Communication Lab (mentor: Márta Ladjánszki) – Budapest, Hungary – 15 Nov 2025. Photo by Gábor Dusa While the dawn of AI is rapidly […]
Decentralizing movement, decentralizing knowledge – A short report from Vitlycke
Author: Jaka Bombač. In september, I visited the HERE Festival in the Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts. The festival took part throughout September, during four weekends. In this short report, I will focus on two performances I saw during the first weekend of the festival: Dance Becomes Her, a lecture performance created and performed by the […]
Four Seasons, four times — CEDT / Maciej Kuźmiński — Four Seasons
Author: Emese Kovács. Life’s cycle never truly halts, and there’s little way to escape the grip of social pressure and embeddedness — at least, that’s what Maciej Kuźmiński’s dance performance, created for the Central Europe Dance Theatre (CEDT) in Budapest, seems to express. Although this review was initially intended to focus on the pre-premiere in Krakow […]
Parallels
Author: Emese Szabó. I am concerned with the question of how, as a critic, it is worth expressing oneself and from what perspective. When I was a university student, once I learned about a feedback method where we had to position ourselves before formulating our critique about the performance and about our expectations for a […]
