"Fear and the Unknown"
Dates: June 30-July 4, 2021
Venue: Traditional low-tech cottage (no internet) in Balatonalmádi (HU), 5 minutes walk from the beach with 2 shared bedrooms (2 bed + 2 mattress / room), shared bathroom, terrace, fruit garden...
Application deadline: Early bird: 1st of June 2021 / Regular price: 15 of June 2021
Number of participants: 8 women
Conditions: Open for all women, regardless of age, professional or educational background.
Vegetarian food: 3x / day
Price:
Venue: Traditional low-tech cottage (no internet) in Balatonalmádi (HU), 5 minutes walk from the beach with 2 shared bedrooms (2 bed + 2 mattress / room), shared bathroom, terrace, fruit garden...
Application deadline: Early bird: 1st of June 2021 / Regular price: 15 of June 2021
Number of participants: 8 women
Conditions: Open for all women, regardless of age, professional or educational background.
Vegetarian food: 3x / day
Price:
- Option A: "Early bird" (Registration before the 01.06) - 60 000 HUF (170 €) including shared accommodation, vegetarian food and all classes, lectures, workshops, activities
- Option B: "Work exchange": You‘ll get vegetarian food, shared accommodation and access to some classes, new experiences in exchange for 25h of work (cleaning, maintenance, cooking, shopping...).
- Option C: "Regular price" (Registration after the 01.06) - 110 000 HUF (315 €) including shared accommodation, vegetarian food and all classes, lectures, workshops, activities
description
Composed of unique experiences, rituals, celebrations, community activities together with dance-performance classes (research, creation, mentoring, presentation, feedback), during this summer camps you will focus on fear, stress, anxiety, panic, self-sabotage, self-care, self-love, self-confidence.
In the middle of a garden of delights, in contact with lush green leaves, vivid flowers, nourishing fruits, fertile soil, purifying fire, fresh water, and tender wind, the camp's activities will be organized around four fields:
In the middle of a garden of delights, in contact with lush green leaves, vivid flowers, nourishing fruits, fertile soil, purifying fire, fresh water, and tender wind, the camp's activities will be organized around four fields:
- BODY (dance, improvisation, movement research, choreography, workout, sport, stretching, relaxation...)
- MIND (research, creation, mentoring, presentation, feedback...)
- SPIRIT (self-confidence, self-esteem, courage...)
- SOUL (ritual, celebration, purification, blessings, divination, spiritual rejuvenation, community activities...)
objectives
During this Camp, you will be trained to:
- disobey to your fears, fight your negative thoughts, attack your counterproductive beliefs, and defeat your harmful emotions;
- be a stronger woman: both physically, mentally, psychologically and emotionally;
- believe in yourself, in your projects, in your creativity, in your art;
- build and boost your self-confidence, remove self-doubt, trust your desires and follow your dreams.
your benefits
Self-reflection, self-development
Artistic techniques & skills
- Develop self-confidence, self-care and self-love;
- Liberate yourself from your fears, transgress your boundaries, go beyond your limits and push; yourself out of your comfort zone;
- Dare to be you: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow your own path and be confidently yourself!
Artistic techniques & skills
- Experiment with different materials, objects, images and tools;
- Discover trans-disciplinary and experimental working approaches;
- Mix different artistic forms and expressions (performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, creative writing in different forms (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...), drawing, painting, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art,...);
- Experiment with different methodologies and techniques of creation (narrating and composing through structured-improvisation, movement research through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources....);
- Develop scores for solo and group choreographies
- Make exercises and execute creative tasks in different medium;
- Get introduced to community art, experience design and healing / therapeutic practiced linked to performing arts.
topic
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (movement research, performance, choreography making, drawing, creative writing, photography, video…) during this Training Camp you will be introduced to the topic of fear. We will explore a variety of questions, such as: What are people most afraid of? What are our common fears? Why fear arises and how it can be combatted? What are the causes and cures of fear and anxiety? What is panic? Why the globalized world has become paralyzed by fear? How have we arrived in an age of fear? How fear became an integral aspect of our political discourses, security apparatuses, social and cultural narratives? How fear contributes to the constructions of our personal identity and our relationship with the others? What role does fear and threat play in contemporary societies?
During the 5 days, following readings and discussions related to the topic, you will make thematic movement research and structured improvisation exercises, create solo and group choreographies, discover new methods and tools to generate both new performances and seeds for the work you are in the midst of creating. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between performance tasks, creative writing and drawing exercises as well. You will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of your own original artwork.
During the 5 days, following readings and discussions related to the topic, you will make thematic movement research and structured improvisation exercises, create solo and group choreographies, discover new methods and tools to generate both new performances and seeds for the work you are in the midst of creating. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between performance tasks, creative writing and drawing exercises as well. You will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of your own original artwork.
during the camp, activities will involve
Performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation and movement; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; movement research ; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...) making exercises and creative tasks in different medium (drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art...), searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
showings
Participants, if they want, can present their works in the frame of outdoor showings (performances, public space intervention...).
organization
DAY 1 |
DAY 2 |
DAY 3 |
DAY 4 |
DAY 5 |
|
08:00 |
Jogging + Stretching |
Jogging + Yoga |
Jogging + Fitness |
Jogging + Dance |
|
08:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
|
09:30-10:00 |
Arrival |
Preparation room |
Preparation room |
Preparation room |
Preparation room |
10:00-13:00 |
Arrival |
"Anxiety-Panic" Studio (discussion, creation) |
"The Risk" Studio (research, creation) |
"Weird-Uncanny" Studio (research, creation) |
"The comfortable uncomfortable" Studio (creation, sharing) |
13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
14:30-18:30 |
"Fear-Stress" Studio (discussion, research, creation) |
"Paranoia-Phobia" Garden / Nature (creation, sharing) |
"The Unknown" Public Space (creation, sharing) |
"Usual-Unusual" Beach / Lakeside (creation, sharing) |
Garden / Nature (ritual + feedback) |
18:30-20:00 |
Rest room |
Rest room |
Rest room |
Rest room |
Departure |
20:00-21:00 |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
|
21:30 |
Relaxation |
Care |
Ritual |
Celebration |
unlearning facilitators
Our Summer Training Camps are led by unlearning facilitators: artists, researchers, theoreticians, cultural workers. The "Fear and the Unknown" camp is held by Anna Ádám, performance maker and visual artist.
