📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Culture sent the proposal of the Development Strategy for Contemporary Dance 2024-2028 for public consideration. The strategy highlights the key challenges, vision, mission and guidelines for the development and integration of contemporary dance into a broader social framework. The deadline for submitting comments and remarks on the document is up to and including March 21, 2024.
To co-design the development strategy for contemporary dance, the Minister of Culture Dr. Asta Vre?ko invited experts from the field of contemporary dance. The strategy is part of wider changes to the cultural model and is being created in parallel with the new Resolution on the National Program for Culture 2024-2031 with the accompanying action plan. The central goal of both documents is the construction of a solidary, inclusive, creative and sustainable society.
Despite the long history and numerous successes of creators, contemporary dance is today one of the most precarious sectors of culture in Slovenia. Creators mostly work in unsuitable workspaces. Their support largely depends on short-term project logic. Most of those working in the field have the status of self-employed in a culture with extremely low and volatile incomes. Over the years, the absence of a central public institution that would be the hub of practices and creators from Slovenia and the international space and the engine of diverse support activities has become a major shortcoming.
The strategy of pole precarization and precarious working conditions recognizes five more key challenges in the field of contemporary dance. These are: lack of training, production and performance spaces; non-existence of a central public institution; lack of an integrated approach to support, international and other activities; the need to redefine the cultural ecosystem of contemporary dance within the performing arts and the need for a decentralized approach.
The resolution defines five development goals: systemic support for contemporary dance (a key measure is the establishment of a public institution for contemporary dance), internationalization, cross-sector integration, decentralization and improvement of working conditions and the rights of the self-employed in culture in the field of contemporary dance.
The proposal for the Development Strategy for Contemporary Dance 2024-2028 is published under this text.
Proposals, comments and opinions can be sent to the e-mail address gp.mk@gov.si or by regular mail to the address Ministry of Culture, Maistrova ulica 10, 1000 Ljubljana, until March 21, 2024, with the note "Strategy for modern dance - public consideration". (with the annotation "Strategy for contemporary dance - public discussion").
