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"The School of Disobedience is not only a place to learn, it is also a place to unlearn. To decondition, to deprogram, to loosen inherited habits of seeing and making. It is a disruptive, progressive, transformative space that challenges traditional academic art education and rethinks the very idea of "learning". Here, theory meets intuition, concept meets emotion.
We study, but we also feel.
We think, but we also attend, intend, and listen.
We value trying.
We honour falling and failing.
We practice (un)doing and (un)making, attempting and experimenting, because learning is not the accumulation of correctness, but the cultivation of courage. The courage to stay with the simple, with the essential long enough for it to reveal its depth.
At the School of Disobedience, you do not only create artworks: you also create conditions, methods, and possibilities. We accompany you in becoming a daring architect of your own path: an inventor of languages, a disruptor of aesthetics, an amplified, subversive voice, an experimental risk-taker. Here, ideas take form. Dreams demand space. Visions insist on action, and find their way into the world."
—Anna Ádám
Founder of the School of Disobedience
Here, we don’t just make art.
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Founded by Anna Ádám, the School of Disobedience is an independent, artist-run school based in Hungary. A place to research, create, produce, show, and (un)learn performance art and creative writing. A living ecosystem that disrupts, questions, and reinvents. A playground for testing bold ideas, practicing experimental and embodied research, and engaging in collaborative creation. A shared garden where poetic, fragile, and hybrid forms sprout, take shape, and claim their space.
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three forces shape our practice:
1. EDUCATION
We teach by doing.
A living curriculum rooted in performance art and writing.
From modular performance masterclasses to a modular somatic writing program — a space to research, experiment, and build your artistic independence.
2. EMPOWERMENT
Not only motivation. Not only inspiration. Also agency.
We cultivate tools for standing, speaking, choosing, and daring — online and in person. Skills that stay with you long after the classroom.
3. TRANSFORMATION
Five-day retreats and ten-day residencies where daily routine dissolves and attention returns to the body, sensation, and imagination. A shift in focus and in rhythm. Not an escape from reality, but a different way of inhabiting it.
We teach by doing.
A living curriculum rooted in performance art and writing.
From modular performance masterclasses to a modular somatic writing program — a space to research, experiment, and build your artistic independence.
2. EMPOWERMENT
Not only motivation. Not only inspiration. Also agency.
We cultivate tools for standing, speaking, choosing, and daring — online and in person. Skills that stay with you long after the classroom.
3. TRANSFORMATION
Five-day retreats and ten-day residencies where daily routine dissolves and attention returns to the body, sensation, and imagination. A shift in focus and in rhythm. Not an escape from reality, but a different way of inhabiting it.
OUR OFFER
art education
PERFORMANCE ART
CREATIVE WRITING
- Modular Performance Art Masterclasses in English (Budapest)
CREATIVE WRITING
- Modular Somatic Writing Masterclass in English (Budapest)
- Five-year program in Hungarian (Budapest)
- Modular online program
empowerment
INDIVIDUAL MENTORING
Artist-to-artist guidance to build your path, shape your methods, and design a sustainable artistic life.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ARTISTS
Tools to structure your vision, sustain your practice, and transform ideas into livelihood without losing integrity.
FACILITATORS TRAINING
Learn how to hold space with ethics, rigor, presence, and responsibility. For those who want to lead without dominating, and support without rescuing.
FIGHT CLUB
A tender arena for attention.
A place to grow boundaries, strength, clarity, and courage. Soft power, sharp mind, grounded voice.
Artist-to-artist guidance to build your path, shape your methods, and design a sustainable artistic life.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ARTISTS
Tools to structure your vision, sustain your practice, and transform ideas into livelihood without losing integrity.
FACILITATORS TRAINING
Learn how to hold space with ethics, rigor, presence, and responsibility. For those who want to lead without dominating, and support without rescuing.
FIGHT CLUB
A tender arena for attention.
A place to grow boundaries, strength, clarity, and courage. Soft power, sharp mind, grounded voice.
transformation
ART RETREATS
Short 5-day retreats at Lake Balaton or in Budapest every summer and fall — to rest and reset, connect and share, get inspired and create.
INDIVIDUAL MENTORSHIP RESIDENCY
10 days in Budapest to deepen your research. You receive space, personalized one-on-one guidance, and structure to refine your language, strengthen your method, and let your practice grow in its own direction.
Short 5-day retreats at Lake Balaton or in Budapest every summer and fall — to rest and reset, connect and share, get inspired and create.
INDIVIDUAL MENTORSHIP RESIDENCY
10 days in Budapest to deepen your research. You receive space, personalized one-on-one guidance, and structure to refine your language, strengthen your method, and let your practice grow in its own direction.
WHAT SETS US APART?
- Choose your language: Study with us in English.
- Small groups
- Focus on both learning and unlearning
- Flexible commitment: from 5-day retreats to 10-day resodencies or month-long masterclasses
- Multidisciplinary approach: integrate various art forms and methods
- Student-centered: programs tailored around each student's interests
- Confidence building: Enhance agency and develop collective and individual trust
- Diverse settings: Experience city life or countryside environments
- Collaborations & Networking: Engage in numerous collaborations and expand your professional network.
- Regular public performance opportunities: Showcase your work and gain feedbacks.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
The School of Disobedience is a journey.
A slow and attentive transformation — from self-exploration to self-acceptance, from self-doubt to self-trust, from self-censorship to self-liberation.
We accompany you, but you walk your own path in you own time zone.
The School of Disobedience is a springboard.
We teach capacity: tools, rigor, methods, and a mindset to claim your agency, shape your practice,
and create your own opportunities instead of waiting for permission.
The School of Disobedience is a laboratory.
A place to test ideas in practice, to take risks, to confront the unknown. A structured and stable space that welcomes experimentation — where we test, fail, and restlessly try again.
The School of Disobedience is an oasis.
A counter-space to pressure, comparison, and spectacle. Here we unlearn inherited models — academic scripts, institutional habits, cultural obedience — to make room for sincerity, depth, courage, and complexity.
The School of Disobedience is a new form of art education.
An antidote to the academy, a garden to cultivate and grow, a mirror to see and reflect, an ode to sincerity and generosity, a passionate and joyful platform for simple actions and profound changes.
A slow and attentive transformation — from self-exploration to self-acceptance, from self-doubt to self-trust, from self-censorship to self-liberation.
We accompany you, but you walk your own path in you own time zone.
The School of Disobedience is a springboard.
We teach capacity: tools, rigor, methods, and a mindset to claim your agency, shape your practice,
and create your own opportunities instead of waiting for permission.
The School of Disobedience is a laboratory.
A place to test ideas in practice, to take risks, to confront the unknown. A structured and stable space that welcomes experimentation — where we test, fail, and restlessly try again.
The School of Disobedience is an oasis.
A counter-space to pressure, comparison, and spectacle. Here we unlearn inherited models — academic scripts, institutional habits, cultural obedience — to make room for sincerity, depth, courage, and complexity.
The School of Disobedience is a new form of art education.
An antidote to the academy, a garden to cultivate and grow, a mirror to see and reflect, an ode to sincerity and generosity, a passionate and joyful platform for simple actions and profound changes.
performance masterclass
You can enroll in as many Masterclasses as you wish to tailor your learning experience, anywhere from one to all seven! Each Masterclass delves into a specific aspect of Performance Art offering deep, focused exploration.
mentorship residency — 100% tailored to your needs
A space to withdraw, to focus, to go deeper.
Our Individual Mentorship Residency offers time, structure, and one-on-one artistic accompaniment for artists developing solo works across disciplines. A temporary home for research and creation including accommodation, studio access, three individually tailored mentorship consultations, a public sharing and feedback moment, and basic documentation support.
Our Individual Mentorship Residency offers time, structure, and one-on-one artistic accompaniment for artists developing solo works across disciplines. A temporary home for research and creation including accommodation, studio access, three individually tailored mentorship consultations, a public sharing and feedback moment, and basic documentation support.
online writing program
Seeking an exclusively online program you can attend at your own pace?
Learn More about our ONLINE Somatic & Experimental Writing Program!
Learn More about our ONLINE Somatic & Experimental Writing Program!
fight club
Looking for a soft space for radical care and empowerment to develop self-confidence, physical and mental resilience?
Learn More about our monthly Fight Clubs!
Learn More about our monthly Fight Clubs!
creative entrepreneurship for artists
Instead of years of wandering alone, you receive orientation, perspective, and tested methods, so you can act with precision, not chance. Not “become successful,” but become sovereign in your artistic path. Here, entrepreneurial skills are not about branding yourself, they are about freedom: to choose, to create, to continue.