NagiB Contemporary Dance Festival
In the period 2005-2008, the festival was organised by Pekarna Cultural Centre. Since 2009, the festival is organised by Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room, though Pekarna Cultural Centre still hosts a number of performances presented at the festival.
Recent editions of Festival NagiB presented works by emerging international authors, such as Yasmine Hugonnet, Maria Jerez, Ioana Popovici, Pere Faura, Silke Z., Radharani Pernarčič, Adva Zakai, Jolika Suderman and Alma Söderberg, Keren Levi, Hugo Dehaes as well as performances of renowned authors, such as Katie Duck, Sebastijan Horvat, Snježana Premuš, Katrina Brown. Thus far, the programme has included performances from Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia, Austria, Romania, Germany, Spain, and Slovenia. Besides presenting international performances to the Slovene public, the festival also encourages the exchange of artistic experiences and knowledge through offering workshops by international artists and pedagogues. In 2006 the programme featured an improvisation workshop by Katie Duck and Mary Oliver from Magpie Music and Dance Company and a contact composition workshop given by Rebecca Murgi. In 2007 the festival hosted a workshop on the dramaturgy of movement given by Igor Dobričić (Serbia, the Netherlands) and in 2008 a dramaturgy workshop by the theoretician and dramaturge Bojana Kunst and a dance workshop by Maja Delak. In 2009 a practical workshop investigating the principles of improvisation and composition, Pandora's Box, was given by the Spanish dancer Aimar Perez Gali.