You will perform and choreograph your texts in the space. You will work both in a dance studio, a private salon, and a Hammam. You will share your texts with an audience, write, research, compose, and create text-based performances as soloists, with partners, or in group. You will investigate the use of dialogue, texts, words to influence and enhance performance, whether it is dance or physical theatre, and also explore the connection between language and body, text and movement. You will discover choreographers and visual artists using narrative texts, speech, prose, drama, poetry, or introducing abstract words, voice into their works. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between moving, drawing, writing, and reading.
schedule
Sat. Nov. 5 “Inspiration Day”
Venue: Salon
10:00-13:00: Immersive writing experience
13:15-15:15: Women's T.o.p.l..ess Drawing Studio
15:30-17:30: Women's Writing Circle
Sun. Nov. 6 “Movement Day”
Venue: Dance studio
10:00-13:00: Immersive writing experience
14:00-15:30: Thinking in Images
15:45-16:45: Let it Go / Break-up Club
17:00-18:00: Dirty Dancing
18:30-19:30: Fight Club
20:00-21:00: Sober Techno
Mon. Nov. 7 “Creation Day”
Venue: Dance studio
09:00-12:00: Creation & Composition (Body & Language)
14:00-17:00: Creation & Composition (Text & Movement)
Tue. Nov. 8 “Relaxation Day”
Venue: Rudas Turkish Bath
13:00-15:00: Immersive writing experience
16:00-20:00: Philosophy & Hammam (Dialogue, spoken words, speech, voice)
Wed. Nov. 9 “Sharing Day”
Venue: Salon
15:00-17:30: Rehearsal / Feedback / Dramaturgy
18:00-21:00: Women’s Literary Salon: Open Stage (Lecture performance)
Venue: Salon
10:00-13:00: Immersive writing experience
13:15-15:15: Women's T.o.p.l..ess Drawing Studio
15:30-17:30: Women's Writing Circle
Sun. Nov. 6 “Movement Day”
Venue: Dance studio
10:00-13:00: Immersive writing experience
14:00-15:30: Thinking in Images
15:45-16:45: Let it Go / Break-up Club
17:00-18:00: Dirty Dancing
18:30-19:30: Fight Club
20:00-21:00: Sober Techno
Mon. Nov. 7 “Creation Day”
Venue: Dance studio
09:00-12:00: Creation & Composition (Body & Language)
14:00-17:00: Creation & Composition (Text & Movement)
Tue. Nov. 8 “Relaxation Day”
Venue: Rudas Turkish Bath
13:00-15:00: Immersive writing experience
16:00-20:00: Philosophy & Hammam (Dialogue, spoken words, speech, voice)
Wed. Nov. 9 “Sharing Day”
Venue: Salon
15:00-17:30: Rehearsal / Feedback / Dramaturgy
18:00-21:00: Women’s Literary Salon: Open Stage (Lecture performance)
detailed program
Nov. 5., 10:00-13:00 + Nov. 6., 10:00-13:00 + Nov. 8., 13:00-15:00
Immersive writing experience
Through different exercises and immersive experiences, you will discover new tools, aesthetics, processes, and writing methods. You will step by step unblock your barriers and get unstuck in your creative writing process. You will, if you are ready for, move out of your comfort zone, feel a little bit more free and liberated.
Nov. 5., 13:15-15:15
Women's T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio
Women's breasts are complex sites of contradiction and contention: the patriarchy has always e.r.o.t.icized and regulated them, they are largely seen through the male gaze. Learning to love and accept our breasts can be a long journey for many of us. Our t.o.p.l.ess drawing studio is only a small step, but it reminds you that you are on your side, promotes self-acceptance and self-love. Here, everybody will be modeling and drawing at the same time, observing and being observed. Through simple drawing exercises, we will addresses the topics of body image and beauty norms, disrupt and destabilize the highly s.e.x.u.alized patriarchal breast ideal.
Commitment: It's a t.o.p.l.ess workshop and you may sit out of any activity, or participate only to a level that's right for you. No photography, no video recording.
Nov. 5., 15:30-17:30
Women's Writing Circle
Following simple creative writing exercises, we will write in various forms texts related to womanhood as a social construct. At the end of the session, participants, if they want, can read and share their texts. This session's topic will be: Touch.
Nov. 6., 14:00-15:30
Thinking in Images
"Thinking in images" is a movement improvisation method directly inspired by analogue photographic processing:
- observing life;
- exposing to light;
- fixing the moment;
- developing the image.
During this class, you will explore through embodied practices and theoretical insights how personal mythologies and memories are formed and constituted. Guided by movement instructions and tasks, you will challenge your body as a political-affective geography, a historically shaped and colonized archive, where power is constantly contested and negotiated.
Nov. 6., 15:45-16:45
Let it Go / Break-up Club
From love to indifference, blindness to open eyes, idealization to deception, harmony to conflict and freedom to imprisonment, we want to break up but forgive, be alone but accompanied, set limits but cross them, to say "yes", "no", "maybe" all at once…
Full of contradictions, oppositional emotions, ambivalent reactions, paradoxical decision, passionate and irrational choices, this class conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which vulnerable fighters constantly rewrite rules, negotiate power, fight with each other, against each other, next to each other. Lost between doubts and convictions, tensions and tenderness, stabilities and imbalances, we are exhausting and emptying our bodies, hearts, and minds, exposing ourselves for our integrity, dignity and freedom.
Nov. 6., 17:00-18:00
Dirty Dancing: Repertoire Class
You will be taught the choreography of a short solo from Anna Adam's "sorry not sorry" performance (2018). This simple sequence will give you space and time to question the cultural and s.e.x.ual-ethical heritage of the Judeo-Christian religious morality, which for two millennia has tried to encode in women what is moral and immoral, natural and unnatural, acceptable and sinful in intimacy.
Nov. 6., 18:30-19:30
Fight Club
Through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we learn how to occupy a space, liberate our body, discover our power and challenge our strength, develop self-confidence and resistance.
Nov. 6., 20:00-21:00
Sober Techno
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 and safe.
Nov. 7., 09:00-12:00 & 14:00-17:00
Creation & Composition
This 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.
Nov. 8., 16:00-20:00
Philosophy & Hammam
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 diversity and beauty. We talk, think, share, express, and connect. We practice to accept our fears, vulnerabilities, and emotions: cry, laugh, become angry, and love. We liberate our body and mind, express and raise our powerful, subversive, and poetic voices. Reflect on our moods and current state, on ourselves as both an individual and member of a community.
This session's topics: "Imperialist feminism", "Feminist formalism", "Feminism washing".
Nov. 9., 18:00-21:00
Women’s Literary Salon: Open Stage
Do you write texts, poems or anything you'd like to share with others? Whatever the genre, whatever the topic, now's your chance! Poetry, diary, prose, text, letter, manifesto, fiction... bring your text and your voice to our little open stage. In a warm, welcoming, and open-minded atmosphere, let's fight stage fright and celebrate your courage of speaking up and occupying space with your beautiful text and voice.
Immersive writing experience
Through different exercises and immersive experiences, you will discover new tools, aesthetics, processes, and writing methods. You will step by step unblock your barriers and get unstuck in your creative writing process. You will, if you are ready for, move out of your comfort zone, feel a little bit more free and liberated.
Nov. 5., 13:15-15:15
Women's T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio
Women's breasts are complex sites of contradiction and contention: the patriarchy has always e.r.o.t.icized and regulated them, they are largely seen through the male gaze. Learning to love and accept our breasts can be a long journey for many of us. Our t.o.p.l.ess drawing studio is only a small step, but it reminds you that you are on your side, promotes self-acceptance and self-love. Here, everybody will be modeling and drawing at the same time, observing and being observed. Through simple drawing exercises, we will addresses the topics of body image and beauty norms, disrupt and destabilize the highly s.e.x.u.alized patriarchal breast ideal.
Commitment: It's a t.o.p.l.ess workshop and you may sit out of any activity, or participate only to a level that's right for you. No photography, no video recording.
Nov. 5., 15:30-17:30
Women's Writing Circle
Following simple creative writing exercises, we will write in various forms texts related to womanhood as a social construct. At the end of the session, participants, if they want, can read and share their texts. This session's topic will be: Touch.
Nov. 6., 14:00-15:30
Thinking in Images
"Thinking in images" is a movement improvisation method directly inspired by analogue photographic processing:
- observing life;
- exposing to light;
- fixing the moment;
- developing the image.
During this class, you will explore through embodied practices and theoretical insights how personal mythologies and memories are formed and constituted. Guided by movement instructions and tasks, you will challenge your body as a political-affective geography, a historically shaped and colonized archive, where power is constantly contested and negotiated.
Nov. 6., 15:45-16:45
Let it Go / Break-up Club
From love to indifference, blindness to open eyes, idealization to deception, harmony to conflict and freedom to imprisonment, we want to break up but forgive, be alone but accompanied, set limits but cross them, to say "yes", "no", "maybe" all at once…
Full of contradictions, oppositional emotions, ambivalent reactions, paradoxical decision, passionate and irrational choices, this class conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which vulnerable fighters constantly rewrite rules, negotiate power, fight with each other, against each other, next to each other. Lost between doubts and convictions, tensions and tenderness, stabilities and imbalances, we are exhausting and emptying our bodies, hearts, and minds, exposing ourselves for our integrity, dignity and freedom.
Nov. 6., 17:00-18:00
Dirty Dancing: Repertoire Class
You will be taught the choreography of a short solo from Anna Adam's "sorry not sorry" performance (2018). This simple sequence will give you space and time to question the cultural and s.e.x.ual-ethical heritage of the Judeo-Christian religious morality, which for two millennia has tried to encode in women what is moral and immoral, natural and unnatural, acceptable and sinful in intimacy.
Nov. 6., 18:30-19:30
Fight Club
Through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we learn how to occupy a space, liberate our body, discover our power and challenge our strength, develop self-confidence and resistance.
Nov. 6., 20:00-21:00
Sober Techno
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 and safe.
Nov. 7., 09:00-12:00 & 14:00-17:00
Creation & Composition
This 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.
Nov. 8., 16:00-20:00
Philosophy & Hammam
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 diversity and beauty. We talk, think, share, express, and connect. We practice to accept our fears, vulnerabilities, and emotions: cry, laugh, become angry, and love. We liberate our body and mind, express and raise our powerful, subversive, and poetic voices. Reflect on our moods and current state, on ourselves as both an individual and member of a community.
This session's topics: "Imperialist feminism", "Feminist formalism", "Feminism washing".
Nov. 9., 18:00-21:00
Women’s Literary Salon: Open Stage
Do you write texts, poems or anything you'd like to share with others? Whatever the genre, whatever the topic, now's your chance! Poetry, diary, prose, text, letter, manifesto, fiction... bring your text and your voice to our little open stage. In a warm, welcoming, and open-minded atmosphere, let's fight stage fright and celebrate your courage of speaking up and occupying space with your beautiful text and voice.
practical information
Language (speaking / writing / reading): Classes are held in English, however you can write and share your texts in your mother tongue. You can also decide to write in your mother tongue and later translate your text or some extracts of it to English. As you feel.
Application deadline: Ongoing
Conditions: Open for women, regardless of age, professional, artistic or educational background…
Flexible commitment: You don't have to follow the whole program. You can decide to attend only part of it.
Prices:
Application deadline: Ongoing
Conditions: Open for women, regardless of age, professional, artistic or educational background…
Flexible commitment: You don't have to follow the whole program. You can decide to attend only part of it.
Prices:
- FULL TIME: Nov. 5-9: 200€ (36h in total, 5€/h)
- PART TIME: Nov. 5-6: 150€ (18h in total, 8€/h)
- PART TIME: Nov. 7-9: 150€ (18h in total, 8€/h)
- CLASS TICKET: 2000 HUF (you can choose max 3 classes)
unlearning facilitators
Anna ÁDÁM: Thinking in Images, Break-up Club, Fight Club, Sober Techno, Creation & Composition, Creative writing
Luca BORSOS: Women’s Literary Salon: Open Stage
Enikő Katalin EGED: Women’s T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio
Judit KIS: Philosophy & Hammam
Eva MORA: Dirty Dancing
Réka PÁVEL: Women’s Writing Circle
Luca BORSOS: Women’s Literary Salon: Open Stage
Enikő Katalin EGED: Women’s T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio
Judit KIS: Philosophy & Hammam
Eva MORA: Dirty Dancing
Réka PÁVEL: Women’s Writing Circle
program creator
Anna Ádám
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR
Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1983, Anna Ádám is an interdisciplinary visual artist working within the expanded field of choreography, performance art, and community activism.