SEPTEMBER 25:
  • 15.00-16.00: Pussy fitness - Vulva dance​
Topic: self-liberation, self-care, self-love
  • 16.30-17.30: Repertoire class: "Desire Club" (2000)
About: Desire Club is a solo dance performance created by the company Gray Box, choreographed by Anna Ádám, and premiered in 2020. The piece explores how we battle with the puritan cultural and sexual-ethical heritage of the Judeo-Christian religious morality which, for two millennia, has tried to encode in us what is moral and immoral, natural and unnatural, acceptable and sinful in sex. "Desire Club" is an ode to the clitoris, a love letter to the cyprine, a celebration of the visibility and liberation of women's desires, bodies and sexualities.​

SEPTEMBER 26
  • 18.00-19.00: Improvisation - Movement research​
​Topic: ​trapping and locking systems
  • 19.30-20.30: Repertoire class: "MÖBIUS" (2021)
About: MÖBIUS is a solo dance performance created by the company Gray Box, choreographed by Anna Ádám, and premiered in 2021. The performance explores the psychological consequences of climate change on those people who will bear the worst consequences of processes they did not initiate, and over which they have little or no control: the youngest. More lonely, depressed, and suicidal than any previous generation, post-millennials are at the same time among the most “traumatized” by climate change, and the key to fighting it. However, light instead of darkness, warriors instead of victims, smiles instead of tears, this solo celebrates hope through energy, strength and combativeness.

SEPTEMBER 27
  • 14.00-14.45: Debate
​Topic: During this class, we will discuss the topic of passion and co-dependency in love relationship dynamics. We will explore a variety of questions, such as what are the distorted beliefs about care, support and love that justify and legitimate the presence of violence in a relationship and where do they come from?
  • 14.45-15.30: Improvisation - Movement research​
​Topic: relationship dynamics, breakup, codependency
  • 16.00-18.00: Repertoire class: "Right for Fight" (2022)
About: Right for Fight is a duet created by the company Gray Box, choreographed by Anna Ádám, and premiered in 2022. 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, paradoxal decision, passionate and irrational choices, this duet conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which two 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, they are exhausting and emptying their bodies, hearts, and minds, exposing themselves for their integrity, dignity and freedom.

SEPTEMBER 29
  • 14.00-15.30: Women's Erotic Writing Circle & Lecture performance​
About: In the women's “Erotic Writing Circle”, we will deal with female desire, repressed and lived sexual fantasies through creative writing exercises. ​Following simple instructions, we will write in our mother tongue erotic texts in various forms. We will name and dare to name what we have, what we feel, what we desire... We will make the vocabulary on women's sexuality richer, more accurate and more precise. We will rewrite words and expressions from our perspective, appropriate and redesign the language of women's pleasure by women. At the end of the session, participants, if they want, can read and share their texts in a performative way.
  • 16.00-18.00: Topless Erotic Drawing Studio
​About: Topless life drawing studio where we will become both artist and model, observer and observed. We will sketch with pencils, our fingers and our tongue represented, interpreted or imagined bodies and desires. Following instructions, inspired partly by the Bauhaus School’s exercises and by American post-modern choreographers improvisation-based working practices, we will also discover the performative and choreographic potential of drawing and finish the workshop in a liberated techno party. Commitment: You may sit out of any activity, or participate only to a level that's right for you.

SEPTEMBER 30
  • 18.00-19.00: Feminist Fight Club​
​About: "Feminist Fight Clubs" are political soft spaces of care and empowerment, where through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we 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.
  • 19.30-20.30: Clean Techno Clubbing
​About: You don't need to take additional drugs and drink alcohol to feel joy, be liberated, simply because you already have these hormones in your body, and you can create a great "cocktail" on your own in a totally conscious way and for free. A little bit of dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin: learn how to wake up your feel-good hormones, how to produce and control them, and how to mix them naturally. Learn how to reach your personal trance state through intensive physical dancing, how to party clean, enjoy drug- and alcohol-free techno clubbing while staying safe and healthy.

concept

  • The "School of Disobedience" is a socially and politically engaged sustainable community art project, dreamed up and created by Anna Ádám. Mixing creation, research, non-formal education and activism, the "School of Disobedience" is composed of an experimental, anti-academic, and radical Performance Art School, a Fight Club, and a summer Healing Centre, open for ALL women. Based on critical pedagogy, empowerment methods, and guerilla tactics, the school encourages participants to stop wanting to prove themselves and wanting to be validated, rather raise their voice, think and act freely. The “School of Disobedience” wants to be a new form of resistance, an anti-fast art, a collective healing garden, an ode for sincerity and courage, a passionate and radical platform for simple actions and small changes.
  • Our proposition for "It's All About Education":
    • Bringing art, empowerment, and critical theory together, "Sisters Club" is a week-long interdisciplinary laboratory for creation, experimentation, and research on "Healthy relationship" and "Sex education", open for ALL women. Composed of six thematic classes (performance, movement improvisation, self-defence, digital media, creative writing, drawing...) and a final performance ("Right for Fight"), “Sisters Club” is an invitation to co-create with participants a political soft space of freedom and care, empathy and resistance, and break together the silence on rape, sexual abuse, and harrasment.
      "Sisters Club" is a space without judgments, without expectations, where we can be who we are, as we are.
      A space, where we can liberate our body and voice, focus on our intimate life and wellbeing, and approach our desires and sexuality with more awareness, respect, and love.
      A space, where we progress together, grow together.
      Where we gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and togetherness.
    • At the end of the week, Eva Mora will join Anna Ádám to perform "Right for Fight" in a boxing ring of a local gym. There is a strong relationship between the performance and the classes.
    • Flexible commitment: attendees don't have to follow the whole program, they can register for each class separately.

"SISTERS CLUB" program

September 24: ARRIVAL of Anna Ádám (from Paris)

September 25: "DESIRE CLUB" / CLASS by Anna Ádám (1h30)
About: This “pussy fitness” will allow you to take care of your intimate wellbeing, get to know yourself on a deeper level, connect to your body, open and energize your sexual centers. Following a short introduction and discussion, you will build your intimate muscles, co-choreograph a vulva performance, and celebrate the diversity of desires, pleasures, and bodies.
Activities: techno-fitness, ecstatic dance, vulva performance

September 26: "FIGHT CLUB" / CLASS by Anna Ádám (1h)
About: Through the exploration of our physical limits, emotional and mental boundaries, we will learn the difference between acceptable and unacceptable, how to say "no" firmly, and how to ask for "help".  At the beginning of the class, we will practice gaze-fighting to make our gaze stronger and deeper, dare to watch straight and not lower our eyes. Following self defense and "play fight" exercises in pair, we will discover and challenge our strength, develop self-confidence, increase our physical and mental resistance. We will finish the class with empowering ecstatic dance battles. Unlike any rule-based sport or technique-based dance style, this inclusive method is built on everyday movements. It is adapted to every type of body, and doesn't require any experience or specific knowledge.
Activities: intensive physical exercise, intuitive martial arts, play fight, self-defense, cardio techno-fitness

September 27: "WOMEN'S EROTIC WRITING CIRCLE" / CLASS by Anna Ádám (2h)
About: In the women's “Erotic Writing Circle”, we will deal with female desire, repressed and lived sexual fantasies through creative writing exercises. ​Following simple instructions, we will write in our mother tongue erotic texts in various forms. We will name and dare to name what we have, what we feel, what we desire... We will make the vocabulary on women's sexuality richer, more accurate and more precise. We will rewrite words and expressions from our perspective, appropriate and redesign the language of women's pleasure by women. At the end of the session, participants, if they want, can read and share their texts in a performative way.
Activities: creative writing, lecture performance, sound poetry

September 28: "QUEER EROTIC DRAWING STUDIO" / CLASS by Anna Ádám (2h)
About: Nude life drawing studio where we will become both artist and model, observer and observed. We will sketch with pencils, our fingers and our tongue represented, interpreted or imagined bodies and desires. Following instructions, inspired partly by the Bauhaus School’s exercises and by American post-modern choreographers improvisation-based working practices, we will also discover the performative and choreographic potential of drawing and finish the workshop in a liberated techno party.
Activities: Drawing on different support (different size / color / quality of paper, journal, sketchbook…) and with various tools (pen, pencil, pastel…), drawing-performance
Nudity: Some participants may choose to work in full or partial nudity, but there is no expectation that you or anyone will.
Commitment: You may sit out of any activity, or participate only to a level that's right for you.

September 29: "HOT PAPER LIVE LOVE: A NEW TALE OF NEW LOVE" / CLASS by Anna Ádám (3h)
About: Far from canons and standards of beauty, the objective of this class is to make new erotic aesthetics of bodies emerge, transgress stereotypes and normative discourses on sexual representations, while defying the boundaries between genders and multiple sexualities. ​You will make drawings, cutouts, and collages on desire, passion, and lust, compose a kinky scenography, and write a sensual choreography for your fingers and hands. You will finish the class by live-streaming your erotic paper-porn-performance or collage peep-show on the Instagram accounts of the Studio ALTA and the School of Disobedience.
Activities: erotic paper art (drawing, collage, cutout…), set / prop design, digital media / live streaming
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ARRIVAL of Eva Mora (from Budapest)

September 30: "RIGHT FOR FIGHT" / CLASS by Anna Ádám (3h)
About: During this class, you will be introduced to the topics of abuse, toxicity, and co-dependency in relationship dynamics, explore your boundaries, set your limits". We will address a variety of questions, such as: ​What are the distorted beliefs about care, support and love that justify and legitimate the presence of violence in a relationship and where do they come from? How can we recognize and avoid them? What are the types of boundaries and how do they function? What are the signs of damaged boundaries? What are the traumas and blocks to establish healthy boundaries? How to set healthy boundaries to protect and take good care of you? How can we recognize boundary violation and protect ourselves from it? How to say “no” firmly and politely?
Activities: movement research, performance, improvisation, discussion...
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"RIGHT FOR FIGHT" / REHEARSAL (Anna Adam, Eva Mora) (3h)

October 1: "RIGHT FOR FIGHT" / PERFORMANCE IN A BOXING RING (Anna Adam, Eva Mora) (30 min)
Trailer
About: From love to hate, blindness to open eyes, desire to boredom, harmony to conflict, we want to stay but leave, break up but forgive, take care but hurt, open but close. Full of contradictions, oppositional emotions, ambivalent reactions, paradoxal decision, passionate and irrational choices, this duet conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which vulnerable fighters constantly rewrite rules, negotiate power, fight with each other, for each other, against each other, next to each other…
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PUBLIC TALK (Anna Adam, Eva Mora) (30 min)

October 2: DEPARTURE of Anna Adam (to Paris) and Eva Mora (to Budapest)

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Classes
  • Indoor space of 100-200m2 depending on the class
  • For some classes, preferably with a dance floor
  • Speakers for playing music​​
  • Mike
  • 4 small RGBW Leds
"Right for Fight" performance
  • Gym with a boxing ring