"Body, Identity, Society" is a full time program you can attend for either 3, 6 or 9 months. It was designed for you, if you want to prepare or develop your professional career on the intersection of creation, connection, and community:
"Body, Identity, Society" is:
The educational path is built on three modules ("Body", "Identity", "Society"), each 3 months long, and articulated around 7 different approaches (Theory, Practice, Technique, Research, Project, Wellbeing, Community). In form of thematic workshops, creations, studio times, lectures, community activities, ceremonies, celebrations, performances, conversations, presentations, well-being times, research labs, dancing jams, public space interventions, and many more, students will be guided by a beautifully international and cross-cultural team, composed of artists, authors, makers, creators, curators, choreographers, musicians, DJs, scholars, healers, witches, and cultural activists.
- make art (develop your own artistic language, choreographic vocabulary, personal aesthetic)
- hold spaces (develop your own method, creative or healing practice)
- build communities (around multi-sensory experiences, rituals, collaborations, festivals).
"Body, Identity, Society" is:
- A full-time program you can attend for either 3, 6 or 9 months
- 24 workshops
- 19 international "unlearning facilitators"
- dance techniques (Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria), funk carioca (twerk), Khorovod (Ukraine), improvisation, release...)
- relaxation & healing techniques (Guided Yoga, Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing...)
- 6 public performances
- 3 creations with a guest choreographer
- 3 personal creations with public showcase
- 1 pagan ritual
The educational path is built on three modules ("Body", "Identity", "Society"), each 3 months long, and articulated around 7 different approaches (Theory, Practice, Technique, Research, Project, Wellbeing, Community). In form of thematic workshops, creations, studio times, lectures, community activities, ceremonies, celebrations, performances, conversations, presentations, well-being times, research labs, dancing jams, public space interventions, and many more, students will be guided by a beautifully international and cross-cultural team, composed of artists, authors, makers, creators, curators, choreographers, musicians, DJs, scholars, healers, witches, and cultural activists.
organization
Modules & Schedule:
Approaches:
Number of participants: max. 10
Teaching language: English
Conditions: This program is open for women only
Participation costs:
- "Body": Aug. 7 > Oct. 20
- "Identity": Oct. 30 > Jan. 28
- "Society": Feb. 5 > Apr. 21
Approaches:
- Theory:
Week-long workshops on a specific topic linked to the fields of sociology, psychology, geopolitics, and dramaturgy, questioning socio-political contexts, inequalities, power dynamics, social justice, hegemonic class, normative behaviors, dominant ideologies.
Activities include: lecture, readings, screenings, historical material, archives, divers audiovisual resources, discussion, writing, presenting... - Practice:
Week-long workshops linked to a performing art form (dance, music, theatre, spoken word / lecture, creative writing, puppetry / object-theater, performance art...) or body practice, having a specific topic, cultural context, and artistic outcome.
Activities include: movement practice, dance, creative writing, poetry & lecture performance, dj & mixing, choral, voice training... - Technique:
Week-long technique and dance style workshops far from western academic canons and/or beauty norms, composed of both a movement practice part (combinations, short sequences, phrases, etc) and a sharing part (historical, cultural, and socio-political background).
Techniques include: twerk, hip-hop, ukranian folk dance, butoh, kathak, capoeira, ballroom dances, waacking, kickboxing, tai chi... - Project:
Week-long workshops where a guest artist, maker, choreographer, composers shares her ongoing creation project with student: invites students into her artistic world, share her tools and working method, test her craziest ideas, try out new things, deepen her research, rehearse, compose, create, progress together.
Activities include: movement research, experimentation, creation, composition, repertoire, rehearsal, final sharing... - Well-being:
Week-long workshops where we learn how to take care about our body, how to accept and appreciate it. Through a series of healing technique, relaxation technique, manual technique, therapeutic practice, will learn how to rest, how to enjoy taking the time for ourselves, how to develop our own self-care and self-love routine.
Activities include: yoga, relaxation, massage, politics of care, healing and therapeutic practices... - Community:
Week-long workshops seen as “calls for gathering” for friendship, trust, and togetherness. It's about creating safe and generous spaces that go beyond relational aesthetics by including in it the production of collective knowledge and the sharing of skills, tools, and processes.
Activities include: immersive group experiences, community cooking, group rituals and ceremonies, excursion, hiking...
Number of participants: max. 10
Teaching language: English
Conditions: This program is open for women only
Participation costs:
- 1 week: 200 €
- 1 module (3 months): 1800 €
- 2 modules (6 months): 2800 €
- full year (9 months): 3800 €
- 1st step: Online application here
- 2nd step in case of successful pre-selection: creation exercise
- 3rd step in case of successful selection: individual discussion with the program creator, Anna Ádám
module 1.
body
Schedule
Aug. 7-11: Introduction
Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Body politics"
Aug. 14-18: Theory
Iris Medeiros (Brazil): "Ways and meanings of the touch: a tool for empowerment, well-being, and knowledge"
Aug. 21-25: Technique
Luana Naquin (France): "Afro fusion dance styles: Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria)"
Aug. 28 - Sept. 1: Research
Anna Ádám (Hungary): "The sketchbook project"
Sept. 4-8: Choreographic creation & Performance
Marion Binois (France): "Monster: as a liberation of the submerged side of the iceberg, that is hidden, unaccepted, uncontrolled"
Sept. 11-15: Fall holiday
Sept. 18-22: Community art
Victoriia Medviedieva (Ukraine): "Pagan Passion: Slavic ritual songs and dances"
Sept. 25-29: Practice
Penelope Morout (Greece-France): "Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release"
Oct. 2-6: Studio: Personal creation
Oct. 9-13: Well-being
Marion Filippi (France): "Multi sensorial journey: Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing"
Oct. 16-20: Assessment & Showcase
Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Body politics"
Aug. 14-18: Theory
Iris Medeiros (Brazil): "Ways and meanings of the touch: a tool for empowerment, well-being, and knowledge"
Aug. 21-25: Technique
Luana Naquin (France): "Afro fusion dance styles: Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria)"
Aug. 28 - Sept. 1: Research
Anna Ádám (Hungary): "The sketchbook project"
Sept. 4-8: Choreographic creation & Performance
Marion Binois (France): "Monster: as a liberation of the submerged side of the iceberg, that is hidden, unaccepted, uncontrolled"
Sept. 11-15: Fall holiday
Sept. 18-22: Community art
Victoriia Medviedieva (Ukraine): "Pagan Passion: Slavic ritual songs and dances"
Sept. 25-29: Practice
Penelope Morout (Greece-France): "Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release"
Oct. 2-6: Studio: Personal creation
Oct. 9-13: Well-being
Marion Filippi (France): "Multi sensorial journey: Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing"
Oct. 16-20: Assessment & Showcase
detailed class descriptionS
- AUG. 7-11: INTRODUCTION
"The body is the medium or raw material through which we navigate the world, but it is also an entity that is invested with meaning."
Mary Kosut and Lisa Jean Moore, The Body Reader
In this class, the female body will be addressed and interpreted through the lens of history, society, and culture, seen as a political-affective geography, a shaped and colonized archive, a both public and private space, where power and control are constantly contested and negotiated.
Through group discussions, personal creations, and presentations, students will learn to use reflection of their own embodied experiences and examine the following topics:
DAY 1: "Body & Consumer culture"
- Morning (research & discussion): "Politics of beauty: body image, fashion, cosmetic surgery"
- Afternoon (creation & presentation): "Pornography"
DAY 2: "Canons of Beauty"
- Tuesday is reserved for women only in the Rudas Turkish Bath. In this safe and healing environment we take care of our body, mind, and heart, come together to celebrate the diversity of beauty.
DAY 3: "Body & Health"
- Morning (research & discussion): "Disordered Bodies, Disordered Eating", Athletic Bodies", "Differently Abled (Dis-abled) Bodies", "Illness", "Aging, Dying, and Dead Bodies"
- Afternoon (creation & presentation):"Periods, Body smells, Hairs"
DAY 4: "Body & Social control"
- Morning (research & discussion): "Policing-Regulating-Dominating-Criminalizing- Punishing "other" bodies"
- Afternoon (creation & presentation): "Violence / Non-violence"
DAY 5: "Sexualizing the Body"
- Morning (research & discussion): "Object of desire"
- Afternoon (creation & presentation): "Appropriating the body"
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AUG. 14-18: THEORY
Iris Medeiros (Brazil): "Ways and meanings of the touch: a tool for empowerment, well-being, and knowledge"
"What touch does to the museum: Ana Pi's research at MAC VAL" is the title of the both theory- and practice-based research I conducted in the past years in collaboration with the University Paris VIII and the "Dancing Museums - The democracy of beings". As I wanted to offer to the reader a sensible and artistic experience besides an intellectual journey, I decided to make from my research a multi-sensory artist's book, a material who dances, a "dancing object" to dance with.
During my workshop, I will share with you my work, through the body, the mind, and the heart, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. We will explore together how touch can be a tool for empowerment, well-being, and knowledge. Together, we will take a route to discover many ways and meanings of touch. It's an invitation for a collective multi-sensory exploration.
DAY 1.
- Morning: introduction, warm-up, lecture
- Afternoon: practice of touch (exercises Theater of the oppressed - Augusto Boal) and relaxation
DAY 2.
- Morning: warm-up, lecture
- Afternoon: warm-up funk carioca (twerk), practice of touch (exercises inspired by Lisa Nelson - tuning score) and relaxation
DAY 3
- Morning: warm-up, lecture
- Afternoon: warm-up funk carioca (twerk), practice of touch (exercises inspired by dance contact and Lia Rodrigues), relaxation
DAY 4
- Morning: warm-up, lecture
- Afternoon: warm-up funk carioca (twerk), practice of touch inspired in Ana Pi proposal "èscultura", relaxation
DAY 5
- Morning: warm-up, lecture/practice
- Afternoon: feedback
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AUG. 21-25: TECHNIQUE
Luana Naquin (France): "Afro fusion dance styles: Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria)"
Afro Fusion dance styles is a workshop sequence dedicated in discovering different modern and urban African dances while staying connected to the body, mind and the culture of the dance styles. It will be a way to learn dances through an Afrocentric practice. Those dance styles come from Ghana, Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Nigeria, Gabon and are social dances. Through this workshop we will connect with each other while learning and practicing. I create a safe space for each dance learner to explore themselves, their body and discover respectfully different African cultures through movement. I am myself on this journey as an afro-descendant person from the Caribbean region. I found through modern African dances a way to (re)connect to my Africanness and my inner self, ground myself and experience a deep joy and way of expression of myself. I love to share this experience with other people! I have an empathetic way of teaching where I pay attention to every-body in a way to include everyone. I position myself as someone who is sharing knowledge and learning from everyone in the room while teaching.
DAY 1
Introduction
Warm-up
Dance style: Ndombolo (Congo)
- Lecture : cultural background + music discovery
- Technique & Combo or short choreography
DAY 2
Warm-up
Dance style: Azonto (Ghana)
- Lecture : cultural background + music discovery
- Technique & Combo or short choreography
DAY 3
Warm-up
Dance style: Afro House (Angola)
- Lecture : cultural background + music discovery
- Technique & Combo or short choreography
DAY 4
Warm-up
Dance style: Amapiano (South Africa)
- Lecture : cultural background + music discovery
- Technique & Combo or short choreography
DAY 5
Warm-up
Dance style: Naija Street Styles (Nigeria)
- Lecture : cultural background + music discovery
- Technique & Combo or short choreography
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AUG. 28 - Sept. 1: RESEARCH
Anna Ádám (Hungary): "The sketchbook project"
Five days of individual research: reading, watching films, podcasts, diverse audio-visual ressources, conducting interviews, visiting exhibitions, writing in many forms, making drawings and collages, observing, journaling, sketching. Sketching movements, ideas, thoughts. Raising questions, debating topics, taking notes, having ideas. Opening doors. Five days, five locations, five questions, one sketchbook.
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SEPT. 4-8: CHOREOGRAPHIC CREATION & PERFORMANCE
Marion Binois (France): "Monster: as a liberation of the submerged side of the iceberg, that is hidden, unaccepted, uncontrolled"
Five days of creation with the choreographer Marion Binois, with a public performance at the end of the week.
Marion Binois about her choreographic project:
"Monster as something that liberates, that shows another side that can be difficult to show. Monster as a liberation of the submerged side of the iceberg, that hidden, unassumed and/or unaware side. This side of us that gets out of the way, that frees another part of the complex beings that we are. Monster as a mask that allows us to hide a part of us to be able to bring out another more easily. Don't we feel different when we are dressed up? To put a change on the outside to modify the inside and to make us progress. Monster or how to bring out something that is deep inside by changing the outer appearance making us let go of our usual identity in order to make room for all those that may also exist inside. A bright person can also be dark from time to time. Because even though they may take up less space these hidden parts of our personality also need to exist. Monster just because you can be who you want, when you want, because I can be who I want, when I want."
DAY 1-4
- Morning: warm up, research, experimentation
- Afternoon: choreographic creation, rehearsals
DAY 5
- Morning: rehearsal
- Evening: public performance
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Sept. 11-15: Fall holiday
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Sept. 18-22: Community art
Victoriia Medviedieva (Ukraine): "Pagan Passion: Slavic ritual songs and dances"
We will combine and explore the ancient Slavic ritual dances through the prism of modern movement techniques. I will introduce you to Ukrainian customs, traditions, and pagan rituals through singing, moving, cooking, and celebrating. I will share with you my vision of "nature", "community', and "togetherness". I dedicate this space for sincerity and wildness, inspiration and passion. I will guide you to find ways to connect with the fire and water inside of you.
DAY 1: “Childhood"
- "Khorovod" - introduction & technique
- “Kolysanka” - lullaby
- “Podolianochka” - song and ritual
DAY 2: “Growing up”
- “Grechanyki” - dance technique
- Wreath weaving “vinochok”: female amulet, symbol of Sun, made of herbs and flowers
- Khorovod “Djerelo” - dance technique
DAY 3: “Household customs and rituals”
- Preparing special Ukrainian dish “Varenyki” with sweet fruits and berries.
- Making “Uzvar” dried fruit drink
- Shared dinner and sharing stories
DAY 4: “Power Meditation"
- Learning the techniques of different Ukrainian dances and combining them into one dance practice. Discover our inner strength and release it. Healthy active body.
- Improvisation to Ukrainian ethnic music for the full release of strength and wildness.
DAY 5: “Harmony”
- Singing Meditation with “khorovod” patterns
- Collective weaving of amulet dolls “motanka”
- Time of silence by candle light. We undo the hair, untie all the knots, and take off our shoes.
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Sept. 25-29: Practice
Penelope Morout (Greece-France): "Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release"
Sculpting Body-Images is a physical movement workshop of high intensity, shaped to challenge the known bodily patterns of each practitioner and to bring awareness to the conscious act of seeing and perceiving the body in relation to interchangeable elements. Whether in real life or on stage, whether through the bare eye or through the lens of the camera, our body is as a dynamic instrument in constant transformation. However, in order to sculpt the form, we need to play and provoke its limits.
Through the use of spatial, temporal and physical constraints, as well as game-like situations inspired by Fighting Monkey Practice (founded by Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Frucek) we will engage into constant movement: constantly transferring weight from one leg to the other, testing the interconnection between our spine and our limbs, shifting positions in space, alternating rhythms between the upper and lower part of the body, destabilizing the bodily structure are some of the ways we will push our corporeal limits and aim to build up stamina, gain agility, speed and resilience in physically demanding situations.
Sculpting Body-Images is about approaching the body from a 360° view and consciously choosing the perspective we want to present of it, based upon what we want to communicate with the world. The question is how can we make this communication clearer and more specific?
DAY 1-5
- Morning: Method
- Afternoon: Research, creation, playground
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Oct. 2-6: Studio: Personal creation
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Oct. 9-13: Well-being
Marion Filippi (France): "Multi sensorial journey: Guided Yoga, Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing"
This workshop is about embodiment and intimacy, in a way that connects us with ourselves and explores how presence allows us to further connect us with others, our direct environment and a greater whole (of various scales). Embodiment is also about feeling the energy flow through our body in order to better know the self so we get a better sense of what to heal and to cultivate to further blossom. It’s about understanding how to channel energy in a creative way. It about stillness and movement, about the nuances of being in one’s body, in physical, emotional, and energetic space.
There are several methods that we will explore, with techniques of/derived from hypnosis, sound journeying, yoga, meditation, and psychomagic, (all of which I have numerous years of experience with).
Firstly, the workshop will start with the aim of bringing each and all in their own presence, physically, emotionally and mentally. This process is reiterated every morning, as a necessary way to check one's own inner space before starting to interact with others on a deep and energetically intimate level. The goal is to get into the habit of attuning oneself to the subtle informations that are being communicated by the body, and to make space for the underlying processes of the psyche.
The second phase is the collective activation (for which we will be using a different protocol each day) where we connect with others, mostly non verbally. There will be a frame for this workshop, but the importance lies in the organic evolution of the group when all have entered a state of clearer awareness. It can take the form of movement (such as contact dance), sensorial experiences (sound journey, exercices of perception), collective singing and vibrating (moments of embodiment of harmonies and finding comfort in the dysharmonies that are part of the flow) or psycho magic acts, where we perform healing symbolic rituals.
The five days are an exploration of what we authentically offer to the world and share with others when we listen to our innermost resonance ? The journey is one of navigating between the inner self and the outer self. It aims to offer a way to better feel ourselves so we can better respect our boundaries, and therefore enter a space of connexion with others where we are conscious and honor other's boundaries too. This space is one of care.
DAY 1
Morning: Presentation, Guided Yoga-Breath-Meditation
Afternoon: Collective activation - multi sensorial journey (touch, smell, listen, move), Moment of exchange
DAY 2
Morning: Feeling forecast, Guided Yoga-Breath-Meditation
Afternoon: Collective activation - Movement journey between merging and feeling boundaries, Moment of exchange
DAY 3
Morning: Feeling forecast, Guided Yoga-Breath-Meditation
Afternoon: Collective activation - Guided Hypnosis followed by a collective singing/voice harmonizing, Moment of exchange
DAY 4
Morning: Feeling forecast, Guided Yoga-Breath-Meditation
Afternoon: Collective activation - Automatic writing of the collective narrative/listening to the collective psyche, Ritual of the Moult (psycho magic act of skin shredding), Moment of exchange
DAY 5
Morning: Feeling forecast, Guided Yoga-Breath-Meditation
Afternoon: Final collective activation, Moment of exchange
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Oct. 16-20: Assessment & Showcase
MEET YOUR unlearning facilitators
Anna Ádám (Hungary): Artist, Choreographer, Community activist
Born in Budapest (Hungary), in 1983, and graduated from the ENSAPC Art School (France) in 2016, I am working with art as a means of connection and with education as a means of activism. I am making full evening pieces and short-format performances, holding multi-sensorial political soft-spaces, creating immersive choreographic experiences, and building rebellious communities. In the past 8 years, I dreamed up the School of Disobedience, founded an artist collective then my own performance art company (Gray Box), launched an annual festival (Wildflowers), exhibited in a toilet, performed in a boxing ring, curated in an elevator, gave lectures in a techno club, run classes in a hammam... I like everything that is unusual, unexpected, and nonconformist. I am not kind with assholes and learned how to follow my own path. I will teach you how to think outside the box so as to be independent. I think the party is outside the canon.
www.annaadam.net
www.instagram.com/annaadamstudio
Born in Budapest (Hungary), in 1983, and graduated from the ENSAPC Art School (France) in 2016, I am working with art as a means of connection and with education as a means of activism. I am making full evening pieces and short-format performances, holding multi-sensorial political soft-spaces, creating immersive choreographic experiences, and building rebellious communities. In the past 8 years, I dreamed up the School of Disobedience, founded an artist collective then my own performance art company (Gray Box), launched an annual festival (Wildflowers), exhibited in a toilet, performed in a boxing ring, curated in an elevator, gave lectures in a techno club, run classes in a hammam... I like everything that is unusual, unexpected, and nonconformist. I am not kind with assholes and learned how to follow my own path. I will teach you how to think outside the box so as to be independent. I think the party is outside the canon.
www.annaadam.net
www.instagram.com/annaadamstudio
Iris Medeiros (Brazil): Interdisciplinary Artist & Researcher
Iris Medeiros is an ex-athlete/rhythmic gymnastics teacher, she is trained in educational sciences (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), visual arts (Parque Lage School of Visual Arts), dance (University of Paris 8), and community (Theater of the oppressed / Augusto Boal). At the Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum (France) she is a lecturer, her visits are often an opportunity to question the place of the body and get into movement. Under the direction of Mahalia Lassibille at Paris 8, she conducted the research "What touch does to the museum: the research of Ana Pi at the MAC VAL", as part of the European project Dancing Museums 2 - The Democracy of Beings, of which this museum was a partner. Her pedagogical vision is mostly based on the theory of Paulo Freire (the pedagogy of the oppressed), Edgar Morin (interdisciplinary), and Lelia Gonzales (Latin American Feminism).
www.instagram.com/Iris_quetzal
Her research
Iris Medeiros is an ex-athlete/rhythmic gymnastics teacher, she is trained in educational sciences (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), visual arts (Parque Lage School of Visual Arts), dance (University of Paris 8), and community (Theater of the oppressed / Augusto Boal). At the Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum (France) she is a lecturer, her visits are often an opportunity to question the place of the body and get into movement. Under the direction of Mahalia Lassibille at Paris 8, she conducted the research "What touch does to the museum: the research of Ana Pi at the MAC VAL", as part of the European project Dancing Museums 2 - The Democracy of Beings, of which this museum was a partner. Her pedagogical vision is mostly based on the theory of Paulo Freire (the pedagogy of the oppressed), Edgar Morin (interdisciplinary), and Lelia Gonzales (Latin American Feminism).
www.instagram.com/Iris_quetzal
Her research
Luana Naquin (France): Dancer, Dance teacher, Multidisciplinary performer
I am an Afro-descendant Carribbean self taught dancer and dance teacher who focuses her practice on empathetic teaching and African practises. I learn mostly from people and like to re share what I know, what I learn and what I developed. I'm energetic and use humor to ease the atmosphere. I am honest and transparent and pay a lot of attention of people's need. I value quality over quantity. I create spaces to make people feel comfortable, seen, heard and valued. I love dancing with people and bringing the joy and the passion out of them.
www.instagram.com/luanamadikera
I am an Afro-descendant Carribbean self taught dancer and dance teacher who focuses her practice on empathetic teaching and African practises. I learn mostly from people and like to re share what I know, what I learn and what I developed. I'm energetic and use humor to ease the atmosphere. I am honest and transparent and pay a lot of attention of people's need. I value quality over quantity. I create spaces to make people feel comfortable, seen, heard and valued. I love dancing with people and bringing the joy and the passion out of them.
www.instagram.com/luanamadikera
Marion Binois (France): Dancer, Choreographer, Model and Visual artist
Marion Binois is a multidisciplinary artist. Following her Baccalaureate obtained in Caen in Design and Applied Arts, she left for Nantes to do a BTS in Space Design. It is at this time that she discovers the community of hip hop dancers. She started to dance in free training sessions, exchanging with dancers of different disciplines while studying. Once she graduated, she began to develop her multi-artistic universe through the local community. Attracted by the link between movement and clothing that she makes herself, she creates performances in France and abroad where characters are created for several dancers as well as multidisciplinary events with the association LabStrus that she has created with friends. Wanting to go further in her creation, she founded the Compagnie Oïra in 2019 in order to carry her first piece for a dancer and a musician; Néant. Always in this need for multi-artistic experimentation, she continues to develop the creation of characters through « Monsters » that she makes so that they are worn during shootings and performances.
« I like to create multi-dimensional universes that are both plastic and performative and that pass from one art form to the other, each of them feeding each other. My blaze, Oïra reflects my approach: if we take my first name Marion and we take its reflection it gives noiram, if now we extract the heart, it gives Oïra, thus the Reflection of the Heart. My objective is to reflect my inner self as well as that of the people I work with, to go and find a lost depth in order to bring it out and send it forward through the body and its expression. My subjects are thus diverse and always take their source in the intimate space and can be made just as universal as for my piece Néant. based on the survey « What is time for you? ».
www.instagram.com/marion_binois
www.oira.fr
Marion Binois is a multidisciplinary artist. Following her Baccalaureate obtained in Caen in Design and Applied Arts, she left for Nantes to do a BTS in Space Design. It is at this time that she discovers the community of hip hop dancers. She started to dance in free training sessions, exchanging with dancers of different disciplines while studying. Once she graduated, she began to develop her multi-artistic universe through the local community. Attracted by the link between movement and clothing that she makes herself, she creates performances in France and abroad where characters are created for several dancers as well as multidisciplinary events with the association LabStrus that she has created with friends. Wanting to go further in her creation, she founded the Compagnie Oïra in 2019 in order to carry her first piece for a dancer and a musician; Néant. Always in this need for multi-artistic experimentation, she continues to develop the creation of characters through « Monsters » that she makes so that they are worn during shootings and performances.
« I like to create multi-dimensional universes that are both plastic and performative and that pass from one art form to the other, each of them feeding each other. My blaze, Oïra reflects my approach: if we take my first name Marion and we take its reflection it gives noiram, if now we extract the heart, it gives Oïra, thus the Reflection of the Heart. My objective is to reflect my inner self as well as that of the people I work with, to go and find a lost depth in order to bring it out and send it forward through the body and its expression. My subjects are thus diverse and always take their source in the intimate space and can be made just as universal as for my piece Néant. based on the survey « What is time for you? ».
www.instagram.com/marion_binois
www.oira.fr
Viktoriia Medviedieva (Ukraine): Dancer, Choreographer
I am a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Kiev, Ukraine, currently living in Bucharest, Romania. I studied choreography at the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, Institute of Arts, Faculty Choreography, and Modern Choreography at Totem Dance School Kyiv, Ukraine. I direct all my efforts to revealing the cultural code of my people, and through my works and performances, I convey the importance of the clarity of the political position of each person and the need for self-determination. In my research, I delve into the origins of the formation of the human mind, into the concept of society, my role in it and social activity or passivity. In teaching, I rely on awareness of movement and bodily relationships. How physical health affects mental health and vice versa. In my classes, I show how to find your strength, understand and accept it, how to work with it and what it can give to our body and mind.
www.instagram.com/medvedeva.vika
I am a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Kiev, Ukraine, currently living in Bucharest, Romania. I studied choreography at the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, Institute of Arts, Faculty Choreography, and Modern Choreography at Totem Dance School Kyiv, Ukraine. I direct all my efforts to revealing the cultural code of my people, and through my works and performances, I convey the importance of the clarity of the political position of each person and the need for self-determination. In my research, I delve into the origins of the formation of the human mind, into the concept of society, my role in it and social activity or passivity. In teaching, I rely on awareness of movement and bodily relationships. How physical health affects mental health and vice versa. In my classes, I show how to find your strength, understand and accept it, how to work with it and what it can give to our body and mind.
www.instagram.com/medvedeva.vika
Penelope Morout (Greece-France): Interdisciplinary dance artist and choreographer
Holding two BA's in Dance and Architecture (K.S.O.T. & N.T.U.A. - GR) and a Master’s in Theatre Practices (ArtEZ - NL), my work expands from creating multidisciplinary dance performances, to constructing sets, creating surrealistic comic stories and animation films. In 2019, I participated in the International Exhibition HUMAN RIGHTS? | THE FUTURE'S SHAPE #WomenCanSaveTheWorld (IT) and for the creation of my solo H.I.I.T. | High-Intensity Identity Training, I used myself as a case-study experiment for a year, in order to draw attention to the objectification of the human body. My latest production, THE BOX || That Dead Space Between Us received financial support from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. In 2021, I founded Cross iMPact Company, an organization which emerged from the belief that artistic innovation can be found in the meeting points between diverse art forms and that art is capable of producing a fundamental impact, in both the individual and the community.
www.instagram.com/penelopemorout
www.penelopemorout.com
Holding two BA's in Dance and Architecture (K.S.O.T. & N.T.U.A. - GR) and a Master’s in Theatre Practices (ArtEZ - NL), my work expands from creating multidisciplinary dance performances, to constructing sets, creating surrealistic comic stories and animation films. In 2019, I participated in the International Exhibition HUMAN RIGHTS? | THE FUTURE'S SHAPE #WomenCanSaveTheWorld (IT) and for the creation of my solo H.I.I.T. | High-Intensity Identity Training, I used myself as a case-study experiment for a year, in order to draw attention to the objectification of the human body. My latest production, THE BOX || That Dead Space Between Us received financial support from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. In 2021, I founded Cross iMPact Company, an organization which emerged from the belief that artistic innovation can be found in the meeting points between diverse art forms and that art is capable of producing a fundamental impact, in both the individual and the community.
www.instagram.com/penelopemorout
www.penelopemorout.com
Marion Filippi (France): Artist and Healing facilitator
My name is Marion, I am a mediterranean artist and healing facilitator. I was born in Marseille, France. I grew up with a deaf parent, which is important regarding how I approach social relationships and the variety of ways we can connect as individuals. I studied political sciences, and when I was 21, after spending a year in Jerusalem, I was diagnosed with cancer. It was a turning point in my life. I engaged on a healing and creative journey that have lead me to the path I am walking now. In 2015, I moved to Cape Town where I lived for 3 years. I started performing as an intimately cathartic practice, exploring gender, sexuality, and the sacred. I simultaneously trained as yoga and meditation instructor, something that had been crucial in my healing journey. Over the years, I trained as a hypnotherapist and as an psychological astrologer. Over the years, I have progressively incorporated my healing tools in my immersive performance pieces, where I facilitate - rather than "perform"- collective experiences leading to altered states of consciousness.
www.instagram.com/marionversatile
My name is Marion, I am a mediterranean artist and healing facilitator. I was born in Marseille, France. I grew up with a deaf parent, which is important regarding how I approach social relationships and the variety of ways we can connect as individuals. I studied political sciences, and when I was 21, after spending a year in Jerusalem, I was diagnosed with cancer. It was a turning point in my life. I engaged on a healing and creative journey that have lead me to the path I am walking now. In 2015, I moved to Cape Town where I lived for 3 years. I started performing as an intimately cathartic practice, exploring gender, sexuality, and the sacred. I simultaneously trained as yoga and meditation instructor, something that had been crucial in my healing journey. Over the years, I trained as a hypnotherapist and as an psychological astrologer. Over the years, I have progressively incorporated my healing tools in my immersive performance pieces, where I facilitate - rather than "perform"- collective experiences leading to altered states of consciousness.
www.instagram.com/marionversatile
module 2.
identity
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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
MEET YOUR UNLEARNING FACILITATORS
module 3.
society
schedule
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
MEET YOUR UNLEARNING FACILITATORS
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general learning outcomes
- making and holding creative and/or healing spaces ;
- connecting and composing with body and movement ;
- writing texts and exploring the use of poetry in dance performance ;
- self-discovering towards self-acceptance: learning how to increase self-esteem, set limits, reduce stress, manage expectations ;
- imagining immersive multi-sensorial experiences ;
- making participatory art, interactive performances, public space interventions ;
- building communities.
methodology
Improvisation
Far from academic and canonic contemporary dance and improvisation classes, the School of Disobedience's performance improvisation method is rather inspired by abstract art in terms of thinking, and by photography in terms of making. It denies physical virtuosity, skillful trick, technical stratagem, aesthetic artifice, and more broadly classicism’s emphasis on imitation. Instead it stress the role of imagination and of the unconscious as the essential creative factors with a structure directly rooted into photographic processing:
- observing life;
- exposing to light;
- fixing the moment;
- developing the image.
Repertoire
You will learn some choreographic phrases from the Gray Box Repertoire, focusing on MÖBIUS (2021), and Right for Fight (2022), the company’s latest works. You will discover the maker's, Anna Ádám's movement vocabulary, her choreographic approach, and working method. Through short sequences explore your own strength, physicality, and creativity , focus on your feelings and intuition, place your sensations into physical form. You will also learn how to interconnect your emotions, movement qualities coming from the practice of thematic improvisation, and the given choreographic language.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
This thematic class will invite you to step out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the class you will discover different techniques and tools to generate new movements and movement qualities. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between moving, writing, and drawing.
COMPOSITION
Stay for an additional hour to delve into composition. Using movements from the "Movement Research" class, this extra time will enable you to put together movements into phrases and sequences through creative tasks and instructions.
CREATION
Stay for an additional hour to delve into choreography. Using movement phrases from the "Composition" class, this extra class will enable you to play, tinker, craft, and put together your sequences into choreography through creative tasks and instructions.
Following a short introduction and group discussion based on readings, life experience, self-examination, you will be invited to reflect and work as soloists, with partners, or in group to create a performance in relation with the topic of the day. You will also receive a choreographic toolbox together with one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details).
Following a short introduction and group discussion based on readings, life experience, self-examination, you will be invited to reflect and work as soloists, with partners, or in group to create a performance in relation with the topic of the day. You will also receive a choreographic toolbox together with one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details).
FIGHT CLUB
Fight Clubs are political soft spaces of care and empowerment, where through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we occupy the space, liberate our body and voice, discover our power and challenge our strength, develop self-confidence and resistance. Against the intimidating and objectifying male gaze used as an instrument of women’s oppression, we regularly do eye gazing exercises, and learn how to confront it instead of looking away. We reinforce our eyes as a muscle, and rehearse to gaze back proudly again, again, and again. Making our eye-muscle become stronger and stronger, we gaze back day after day with a little bit more confidence, and a little bit less of fear.
CLEAN TECHNO CLUBBING
Learn how to wake up your feel-good hormones, how to produce dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin naturally. Explore how to use the power of your body and mind to enter a conscious trance state through intensive physical dancing, how to party clean. Let's enjoy together techno clubbing without drugs and alcohol, staying sober, safe, fresh, and healthy.
philosophy
In the “School of Disobedience”, you are encouraged to produce and share knowledge and tools to imagine the framework for a new economy of performing arts, in which the focus is switched from competition, career, fame, glory, and visibility to mutualisation, cooperation, collaboration, support, and care. A new world, where you don’t have to obey other's gaze, and judgments, handle the profession's pressure, and respond to gatekeeper's and standard-bearer's expectations. Putting the body, emotions, and critical theory on the same level, this new world is constructed beyond dualisms, where you constantly look for ambiguity, nuances and different shades of grey, celebrate in-betweens, wiggle rooms, doubt, and uncertainty, welcome diversity, applaud critical and divergent thinking, celebrate disagreement, dissent, resistance, and nonconformity. You unlearn western aesthetics, academic canons, beauty norms, manners and patterns in contemporary performance art, and relearn how to dare to behave differently, create unconventionally, think outside-of-the-box.
You are given a chance to build collectively a structured "creative healing space" to connect, collaborate, learn, and create with fellow students.
A space, where you can reflect on yourself as both an individual and member of a community.
Where you can find ways to support yourself and support others.
Where you can progress, move forwards, grow.
Gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and togetherness.
You are given a chance to build collectively a structured "creative healing space" to connect, collaborate, learn, and create with fellow students.
A space, where you can reflect on yourself as both an individual and member of a community.
Where you can find ways to support yourself and support others.
Where you can progress, move forwards, grow.
Gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and togetherness.