Borderless Body: A Four-Year Artistic Journey of MN Dance Company within ECoC 2025
Official Programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025
Borderless Body represents the culmination of MN Dance Company’s four-year artistic research (2022–2025). The project grew from a question about the borders of the body and space and evolved into a dialogue between landscape, creators, and audience.
In July 2025, the process reached its peak with a large-scale site-specific performance at the Cerje Peace Monument—at the intersection of history, nature, and artistic expression—where a unified, living organism emerged.
MN Dance Company works with a permanent ensemble of seventeen outstanding contemporary dancers whose virtuosity, dedication, and creative energy enable the realization of the most ambitious artistic visions.
Key productions that shaped the identity and visibility of the project:
Central site-specific dance and music performance.
A myth reimagined through contemporary dance and multimedia.
An exploration of light, perception, and digital atmospheres.
A reflection on borders—physical, emotional, geopolitical.
A poetic study of closeness, separation, and connection.
A triptych on gravity, longing, and cosmic space.
Continuing the creative path of Borderless Body.
The vision of MN Dance Company resonated from local stages to major international festivals:
SNG Nova Gorica, Cankarjev dom, SLG Celje, Festival Velenje, Primorski poletni festival, Kosovelov dom Sežana, PTL, SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, Tartini Theatre, Tolmin Cinema, FSF Portorož, Festival Krafft Kranj, Slovenska kinoteka, National Gallery, Cerje, Center mladih Koper.
Nova Gorica: Bevkov trg, Europe Square, X Center, Epicenter, GONG, EDA Center, Kromberk, Rusjan Monument …
Visavi Festival, Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Loggia del Lionello, Mittelfest Cividale, University of Bologna, Auditorium Concordia Pordenone, Pietrasanta, InDanza Trento & Rovereto …
Paris Olympic Games – Culture Day, Chemnitz Contemporary Dance Festival, Adriatic Dance Festival, ITB Berlin, Bavarian Tourism Fair, Kleist Forum Frankfurt, InterUrban Veszprem, DeDans Week Rotterdam, Dance Masterclass Berlin, Dance Camera Istanbul, Moving Body Festival (BG) …
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Sans Souci Festival (Boulder), Dance Camera North (Minneapolis), Inspired Dance Film Festival (Sydney), Ketchikan Festival (Alaska), MANIFEST (India), Dance Film Making LA …
These performances and film projects strengthened the cultural presence of Nova Gorica and placed it firmly on the world map of contemporary dance.
The Borderless Body project has created lasting change in the Goriška Region:
MN Dance Company expanded the project into the digital sphere:
Millions of views of performances and dance films carried the identity of Borderless Body across the world and reinforced the visibility of ECoC 2025, Nova Gorica, and Slovenian contemporary dance.
In addition to the main productions, the project included:
DE-SET (revival) · Step Out of My Shadow PI314 (coproduction) · Fashion Meets Dance – GO! 2025 × Benedetti Life · Opening of ECoC 2025 · Cultural Showcase Berlin · Paris 2024 Olympic Games · Under Mars · A-Line & Drop (dance films) · Inferno · Abstract · Perpetuum Mobile · PASOLINI 100 · 10-Day Residencies (2022–2025) · Borderless Movement · Dance films Horizont & Layers · International Dance Day ECoC · ONE YEAR TO GO · OUTSTANDING · ECOC Family Meeting · Dance Film Night on the Border · Documentary Film (2025) · Closing Ceremony ECoC 2025
Borderless Body is not just a performance. It is:
4 years of creation | 77+ events | 11 premieres | 3 dance film cycles | 3 residencies |
17 dancers | 20+ festivals | cross-border collaborations | educational programmes | millions of views
The project embodies MN Dance Company’s artistic vision, regional impact, global reach, and lasting cultural legacy for Nova Gorica, the Goriška Region, and the international dance community.
