The School of Disobedience is looking for new encounters, meeting new "unlearning facilitators" who want to run a non-canonical, anti-academic, experimental, and critical workshop for our students.
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- Length of your workshop:
- Nb of hours / day:
- Period:
- Nb of students:
- You can apply in 6 categories:
(Ex. sociology, psychology, geopolitics, dramaturgy...)
You can decide to make a workshop on a short general introduction to a field of study (eg. philosophy, cultural anthropology...) or to be specific and focus on your personal research either on art or on society from a critical perspective, challenging power dynamics, hegemonic class, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies.
2. Technique
(Ex. twerk, krump, hip-hop, folk dance, butoh, kathak, capoeira, kickboxing, tai chi...)
We are looking for dance techniques, movement practices and styles outside of the Western canon (street dance, traditional dance, folk dance, internet dance, pop culture, sport...). Please, when you think about the length of your class, make sure that you reserve time for sharing with students the historical, cultural, and socio-political background of the dance you want to teach them. We are also curious about the relationship between the dance you want to teach and your own cultural background.
3. Practice
(Ex. creative writing, slam, poetry, dj, mixing, choral, voice, sound design...)
You can decide to run a workshop linked to a performing art form (dance, music, theatre, spoken word / lecture, dramaturgy, creative writing, puppetry, performance art...) or body practice for example.
4. Creation "residency" / Project
(Ex. research, creation, composition, repertoire...)
This category was specifically designed for makers / choreographers / composers who have a creation project in their mind, and want to test their ideas, develop their research, progress in their creation with our students. Note please, that the idea is not at all about choreographing a piece for our students with a final public performance at the end, but to work on your own project in collaboration with our students: take the time to try out things, hold rehearsals, run a thematic laboratory for research and experimentation to gain new insights and perspectives for your piece. Understand this category as a kind of "residency" where you work with our students on your project, rather than a workshop where you teach them something.
5. Wellbeing
(Ex. aromatherapy, yoga, relaxation, massage, reflexology, naturopathy...)
Your workshop is a way to learn to accept and appreciate our body, encourage self-care and self-love, through a healing technique, relaxation technique, manual technique, ritual or practice of care, any kind of therapeutic approach.
6. Community
(Ex. tea ceremony, rainmaking ritual, excursion, hiking, collaborative & co-creating tools, community building & organizing practices...)
Your workshop can be seen as a “call 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.
- We are very interested in workshops that are:
- clearly localized and ultra specific (ex. North Albanian folk dances, The guerrilla legacy of the Cuban revolution...) ;
- linked to performance, performing arts, community arts, political activism or critical theories ;
- part of your own cultural background (ex. tantra yoga class led by a person from India...) ;
- radical, outsider, marginal, experimental, courageous, unusual, unconventional, specific (ex. "The history of street gangs in the United States"...) ;
- questioning socio-political contexts, inequalities, power dynamics, social justice, hegemonic class, normative behaviors, dominant ideologies (ex. "The power of krump dancing to transform youth violence"...).
- We are less interested in workshops that are:
- not contextualized, and don't show a clear affiliation with any socio-political question (ex. "Journey of self-discovery"...) ;
- part of the western canonical artistic heritage (classical ballet, Dunham, Graham, Horton, Limon, Cunningham techniques...) without questioning them ;
- following the classic lecture structure, where teachers speak, students listen ;
- promoting a dogmatic, religious, spiritual, political leaning in particular.
IF YOU ARE NOT SURE IF YOUR PROPOSAL FITS INTO THIS FRAME, DON'T HESITATE TO ASK US BEFORE FILLING OUT THE APPLICATION FORM!
- You:
- We appreciate risk-takers, people who are not afraid of failing, who are willing to progress, to gain new experiences, and to step out of their comfort zone.
- If you are a fighter, a warrior, a punk, a dissident, a marginal, an outsider, you should definitely apply.
- We want to build a beautifully cross-cultural team, celebrating diversity in many forms (cultural, race, age, sex, gender, disability...).
- You are very welcome if you don’t make any hierarchy between different types of knowledge, culture, approach, and don’t take any ideology, belief, aesthetic, artistic form or expression as the only best one. We are interested in people who prefer raising questions instead of giving answers. People who celebrate divergence and diversity in terms of thinking, arguing, believing as well. People who accept other point of views and opinions, and agree that it’s okay to disagree :)
- No age limit.
- Min. 50% of the staff will be composed of BIPOC people.
- This time we prefer solo applications, rather than proposals from duos / collectives.
- Venue:
- Conditions:
- Travel budget: up to 150€
- Salary: 200-600€ (Depending, among others, on your experiences and on the category you are applying for...)
- Application process:
- 2nd step in case of successful pre-selection: Online individual discussion with the program creator, Anna Ádám
- 3rd step in case of successful pre-selection: Students' vote
- Application deadline:
- Important:
- Ask / feedback anything:
statement
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 members.
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.
www.schoolofdisobedience.org
www.instagram.com/school_of_disobedience/
You are given a chance to build collectively a structured "creative healing space" to connect, collaborate, learn, and create with fellow members.
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.
www.schoolofdisobedience.org
www.instagram.com/school_of_disobedience/
what is school?
For a school of tomorrow, we want to create an environment that is above all joyful and positive, where students are accepted, respected, challenged, where beyond constructive criticism they receive encouragement. Where students are neither put in boxes, nor judged. Where students can express themselves openly and simply. Where they are taught autonomy and independence without being abandoned, where they are accompanied and supported in their projects and in their dreams. Where students not only have the right to go against canons, traditions, conventions and norms, but where they are encouraged to do so. Where other forms of knowledge than theoretical are also considered and taught. Perception, empathy, emotions, intuitions.
Personal stories, life experiences.
In the school of tomorrow teachers do not tell students what to think, what to believe in, but open "doors" for them and offer them a multitude of possibilities, knowledge, tools, ways of doing and ways of seeing things. Teachers do not take advantage of the young age and the extreme sensitivity of the students to influence them, to transmit to them their personal convictions and struggles. Rather they teach them critical thinking, doubt and skepticism.
Open-mindedness, curiosity, empathy.
This school would then be human, warm, and generous.
This school is going to raise students, teach them to trust in themselves, believe in themselves, be themselves.
This school will make students become authentic, sincere and courageous.
That’s how they will face the world.
Personal stories, life experiences.
In the school of tomorrow teachers do not tell students what to think, what to believe in, but open "doors" for them and offer them a multitude of possibilities, knowledge, tools, ways of doing and ways of seeing things. Teachers do not take advantage of the young age and the extreme sensitivity of the students to influence them, to transmit to them their personal convictions and struggles. Rather they teach them critical thinking, doubt and skepticism.
Open-mindedness, curiosity, empathy.
This school would then be human, warm, and generous.
This school is going to raise students, teach them to trust in themselves, believe in themselves, be themselves.
This school will make students become authentic, sincere and courageous.
That’s how they will face the world.
2021/2022 staff
- Unlearning facilitators:
www.instagram.com/annaadamstudio
➤ Luca Borsos ["Women's Literary Salon: Open Stage" + "Performance Evening: an experimental and radical laboratory"]
www.instagram.com/lutzaa
➤ Enikő Katalin Eged ["T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio"]
www.instagram.com/azzurro_velluto
➤ Júlia Gaál ["Replay! Remix! Remake!" + "The Decision / Indecisiveness"]
www.instagram.com/juliaesztergaal
➤ Zsófia Kergyó ["Feminist Hammam"]
www.instagram.com/kergyozsofi
➤ Judit Kis ["Philosophy & Hammam" + "The Healing Garden"]
www.instagram.com/u.dyt
➤ Rebeka Petra Kiss ["Yoga-Techno-Yoga Techno" + "Guilt Training"]
www.instagram.com/rebi_kiss
➤ Roland Korponivics ["Let it Go"]
➤ Anna Makay ["Electronic music"]
www.instagram.com/maam_makayanna
➤ Eva Mora ["Dirty Dancing" + "Right for Fight"]
www.instagram.com/evmogo
➤ Réka Pável ["Women's E.r.o.t.ic Writing Circle"]
www.instagram.com/rekaforyou
➤ Kemelo Sehlapelo ["Zulu Tribal Dance & Battle culture"]
www.instagram.com/kem_does_it_again
➤ Eden Tinto Collins ["Soundscapes: sound art, voice, performance"]
www.instagram.com/edentintocollins
- Program creator: