Next stop is now

Next stop is now
video dance project, 3′, Skopje, 2019

Concept Ivana Balabanova & Alessandro Olla
Dancer Ivana Balabanova
Music Alessandro Olla

Filmed on the platform of a freight wagon in an abandoned railway station in Skopje, the work unfolds through a minimal device: fixed camera, strong perspective axis, a body slowly advancing towards the lens.

The railway line suggests inevitability, a vanishing point that promises direction and progress. Yet the editing interrupts this linear trajectory: forward and backward, subtle temporal displacements, a progression that fractures. Time does not flow — it oscillates.

The soundtrack — tuned drones with noise contaminations — does not accompany the dance but generates a field of perceptual tension in which the movement takes place.

The piece does not narrate a journey. It suspends it.
The centre is not the point of arrival, but the instant that repeats and slips.