"The Healing Garden"

Keywords: healing, care, joy, serenity, gratitude, wellbeing, trust, vulnerability, mutual respect, temptation, freedom and desire

research

Let’s imagine, create and make together a series of performances, dances, rituals, ceremonies, blessings and celebrations in a wild and secret garden.
Let’s explore the garden as a “healing center”, an attic of joy, serenity, wellbeing, trust, vulnerability, mutual respect and care!
Let’s discover how nature can empower us, and how a garden can become a political soft-space of self-liberation and resistance.
Let’s celebrate temptation, freedom and desire.
Let’s dream of a common utopia, let’s build a simple, humble and generous community.

Join the Gardeners League!​

during the classes, activities will involve

Contemporary dance, performance, ritual, ceremony, blessing, land-art, art in nature, participative performance...

final public showing

Following the last class, on the 8th of September, participants will present their works in the frame of a public showcase in the garden.

unlearning facilitators

  • Anna Adam (Performance, Rituals-Celebrations, Fight Club, Desire Club)
  • Judit Kis (Healing, Care)
  • Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Gardening)
  • Vincent Liegey (Politics & Ecology)
  • ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (Contemporary dance, Composition): Heléna Hrotko (Body Mind Dance), Gyula Berger (Composition class), Viktória Matisz (Movement Research), Viola Lévai (Contact Improvisation)

practical information

  • Dates: October 4-8​: Part time (3h/day) or Full time (6h/day) with final public showing
  • ​Venue: permaculture garden (Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association)
  • Number of participants: 8 women
  • Timetable:
Oct. 4. - "Secret Garden"
10.00-11.30: “Dance in Nature: Body Mind Dance” class by Heléna Hrotko (ZeroPlus DanceWorks)
11.40-13.10: “Dance in Nature: Composition class” class led by Gyula Berger (ZeroPlus DanceWorks)
14-18h: Thematic creation with Judit Kis: “Secret Garden” (Brainstorming, research, creation of individual or group performances, choreographies, rituals, ceremonies, blessings…)
Oct. 5. - "Wild Garden"
10-13h: Discussions, talks: “A garden as a space of political resistance” by Vincent Liegey
From 14:00: “Mulcs workshop” by Nyitott Kert
Mulch consists of caring about your soil: collecting material (such as decaying leaves, bark, or compost) spread around to enrich or insulate the soil.
Oct. 6. - "Healing Garden"
10.00-11.30: “Dance in Nature: Movement Research” class led by Viktória Matisz (ZeroPlus DanceWorks)
11.40-13.10: “Dance in Nature: Contact Improvisation” led by Viola Lévai (ZeroPlus DanceWorks)
14-16h: Thematic creation: “Healing Garden” (Brainstorming, research, creation of individual or group performances, choreographies, rituals, ceremonies, blessings…)
Oct. 7. - Rehearsal, preparation
10.00-11.30: “Dance in Nature: Fight Club” class led by Anna Adam
11.40-13.10: “Dance in Nature: Desire Club” led by Anna Adam
14-16h: Individual & Group rehearsals, project consultation, feedback session
Oct: 8. - Public presentation
12-17h: Individual & Group rehearsals
17h: Public performances, choreographies, rituals, celebrations, blessings, ceremonies...
  • Tuition fee:
Very Early Bird (Before August 1st) - 2 places: 
Work exchange for free tuition
Early Bird (Before Sept. 15):
Part time (15h): 25 000 HUF (75€)
Full time (30h): 50 000 HUF (150€) 
Regular Price (Ongoing):
Part time (15h): 35 000 HUF (100€)
Full time (30h): 70 000 HUF (200€)