Lead partner: MN Dance Company.
Other partners: SNG Nova Gorica.
Borderless Body – MN Dance Company’s Four-Year Artistic Journey (2022–2025)
Official Programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025
From Idea to Cerje: Four Years of Creation
Borderless Body represents the culmination of MN Dance Company’s four-year artistic research (2022–2025). What began as a question about the borders of the body and space gradually evolved into a dialogue between landscape, creators, and audience.
In July 2025, this long-term research reached its peak with a large-scale site-specific performance at the Cerje Peace Monument — a crossroads where history, nature and artistic expression merge into a unified, living organism.
MN Dance Company works with a permanent ensemble of seventeen outstanding contemporary dancers, whose virtuosity, dedication and creative energy enable the realization of even the most ambitious artistic visions.
Highlighted Performances (GO! 2025)
Key productions that shaped the identity and visibility of the Borderless Body project include:
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Borderless Body – Cerje (July 2025)
Central site-specific dance and music performance. -
Prometheus (January 2025)
A myth reimagined through contemporary dance and multimedia scenography. -
F-LIGHTS (June 2024)
An exploration of light, perception and digital atmospheres. -
Border-Line (April 2024)
A reflection on physical, emotional and geopolitical borders. -
Distance (October 2023)
A poetic study of closeness, separation and human connection. -
To the Moon and Back (June 2023)
An intimate triptych on gravity, longing and cosmic space. -
Perpetuum Mobile (November 2022)
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Poetical Body (Pre-premiere: November 2025, Premiere: January 2026)
A work continuing the creative path opened by Borderless Body.
Global Footprint
The vision of MN Dance Company has resonated internationally — from local stages to prestigious global festivals.
Slovenia
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 …
Italy
Visavi Festival, Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Loggia del Lionello, Mittelfest Cividale, University of Bologna, Auditorium Concordia Pordenone, Pietrasanta, InDanza Trento & Rovereto …
Europe
Paris Olympic Games – Culture Day, Chemnitz Contemporary Dance Festival, Adriatic Dance Festival, ITB Berlin, Bavarian Tourism Fair, Kleist Forum Frankfurt, InterUrban Veszprém, DeDans Week Rotterdam, Dance Masterclass Berlin, Dance Camera Istanbul, Moving Body Festival (BG) …
Worldwide
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 have strengthened the cultural presence of Nova Gorica and placed it firmly on the world map of contemporary dance.
Cultural Legacy and Regional Impact
The Borderless Body project has created lasting change in the Goriška Region through:
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the establishment of the first permanent contemporary dance ensemble in the region
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summer residencies, workshops and community programmes
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strengthened cross-border collaboration and international exchanges
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the development of Nova Gorica into a centre of contemporary performance, education and creativity
Digital Presence
MN Dance Company expanded the reach of the project through its strong digital platforms:
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Instagram: 103,000+ followers
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YouTube: 62,000+ subscribers
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Facebook: 10,000+ followers
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.
Full Programme (2022–2025)
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 (2023, 2024, 2025)
Documentary Film (2025)
Closing Ceremony – ECoC 2025
Conclusion
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 worldwide.
The project embodies MN Dance Company’s artistic vision, regional impact and global reach, and leaves a lasting cultural legacy for Nova Gorica, the Goriška Region and the international dance community.
Additional information is available via:
- phone number: +386 5 335 22 47
- e-mail: blagajna@sng-ng.si
Photo: Oksana Sur
