Nomad dance academy Croatia
About Us
Croatian dance network
Since our launch in 2011, the team at NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY CROATIA brings together dance organisations and independent artists working in the field of contemporary dance and performing arts in Croatia. We are a network that aims to decentralise and strengthen the artistic, performative and educational potential of contemporary art in a wider national social context.We act as an open platform that, through a series of meetings-workshops, artistic projects, continuously considers the specific needs of the dance scene at the local level as well as at the national.We are not a firmly structured program, but a development project that focuses it's human and financial resources on strengthening those segments of the performing scene that at specific moment have the greatest potential for the wider community. Thus,we are an educational, artistic, structural and lobbying project .Key activities are developed around the idea of co creations so we developed a series of residencies where artists work on a horizontal level co-creating a performing piece. We are partners of Nomad dance academy since it’s foundation and have collaborated with them throughout the years in conceiving and implementing various projects.
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At NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY CROATIA, we are providing space to exchange ideas and articulate new program lines that are a need of a larger community.
We are a member of Nomad Dance Academy
Since 2005, Nomad Dance Academy is a Balkan contemporary dance network which is active in the field of dance education, artistic creation, production, as well as promotion and advocacy. Through its cultural activism, it seeks to strengthen the various creative and artistic forces in the local and national contemporary dance contexts of the Balkan region, in order to achieve the right conditions for professional, high-caliber, and exciting contemporary dance work. The partners of Nomad Dance Academy understand contemporary choreography as an artistic or social function, methodology, or practice, which deals with working conditions, the creating or producing of composing, constructing, performing, perceiving and thinking various presences, absences, or representations of the human body (in the individual or collective sense), as well as its traces, indications, and potentialities in the past, present, or future.
Nomad Dance Academy (NDA) is a transnational network of dance artists and cultural workers rooted in the legacy of the Non‑Aligned Movement: anti-colonial solidarity, cultural sovereignty, and commitment to emancipatory artistic and pedagogical practices.
In response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and decades of settler-colonial oppression, we express our unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, justice and historical accountability. Our position draws on the political imagination of the Non-Aligned: a refusal to side with imperial powers, a rejection of domination in all its forms, and a commitment to cultural resistance that centers people over nationhoods, justice over neutrality.
We therefore commit to refusing collaboration with Israeli state institutions and all entities that enable or benefit from Israel’s policies of ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and systemic violence.
At the same time, we remain open to collaboration with Israeli artists, researchers and organisations who actively oppose the genocidal war on Palestinians, occupation and systemic violence, who are not funded by the Israeli state and who share the foundational values of freedom, justice and equality. Such collaborations are not gestures of false balance, but a continuation of Non-Aligned political ethics that rejects both normalisation and isolation.
We believe that art- especially dance and somatic practices- can act as a space of decolonial imagination and of articulation of resistance. In all projects, partnerships and exchanges, we commit to transparency of funding sources, ethical accountability in collaboration and a clear position against the normalisation of the genocide, occupation and injustice.
Our commitment to justice includes a responsibility to be vigilant in how art and culture are mobilised - to question when they serve propaganda or whitewashing, and to affirm when they create space for resistance, mourning, survival and shared struggle. This is not a temporary position, but an ongoing ethical and political horizon that guides our actions and alliances.
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