On the invitation of Studio ALTA, the School of Disobedience will come to Prague between September 25-30 and build temporarily a radical and experimental playground to explore the politics of care and desire.
A playground, where we learn to occupy space.
A playground, where we liberate our body and voice.
A playground, where we progress together and grow together.
Where we gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and togetherness.
Participants don't have to follow the whole program, they can register independently to each class.
A playground, where we learn to occupy space.
A playground, where we liberate our body and voice.
A playground, where we progress together and grow together.
Where we gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and togetherness.
Participants don't have to follow the whole program, they can register independently to each class.
about
Join our taboo breaking week, go on an introspective and creative journey into your heart, womb, and vulva, meet your fears and desires, identify and learn how to express your needs in both relationship dynamics and sexuality.
During the week, participating in thematic improvisation and movement research labs, repertoire classes, controversial and thought-provoking debates, open talks, pussy fitness sessions, vulva dances, sensual tale and erotic poetry writing workshops, topless desire drawing studios, and lecture performances will allow you to learn about yourself and your blockages, connect to your body, focus on your love life and intimate wellbeing, open and energize your sexual centers, approach your relationships, desires and sexuality with more awareness, respect, and love.
During the week, participating in thematic improvisation and movement research labs, repertoire classes, controversial and thought-provoking debates, open talks, pussy fitness sessions, vulva dances, sensual tale and erotic poetry writing workshops, topless desire drawing studios, and lecture performances will allow you to learn about yourself and your blockages, connect to your body, focus on your love life and intimate wellbeing, open and energize your sexual centers, approach your relationships, desires and sexuality with more awareness, respect, and love.
classes
SEPTEMBER 25:
15.00-16.00: Pussy fitness - Vulva dance
15.00-16.00: Pussy fitness - Vulva dance
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 quick warm up, you will build your intimate muscles, co-choreograph a vulva performance, and celebrate the diversity of desires, pleasures, and bodies.
SEPTEMBER 25:
16.30-17.30: Repertoire CLASS: "Desire Club" (2000)
16.30-17.30: Repertoire CLASS: "Desire Club" (2000)
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 CLASS
18.00-19.00: Improvisation CLASS
Topic: "feeling trapped", "breaking free"
About: Far from academic and canonic contemporary improvisation classes, the School of Disobedience's improvisation method is directly inspired by photographic processing:
Sessions begin with a short dynamic warm-up to awaken the senses and bring awareness to the body and mind. Then guided by creative instructions and tasks, you will playfully delve into improvisation. You will compose dance in the moment, develop your unique artistic voice and personal aesthetics, improvise as soloists, with partners, and in group forms, lose yourself in a safe space free from judgment where anything can happen.
Whether you are a dancer, closet dancer, non-dancer, musician, artist of any art form, or anyone really, this class is open to all of you.
About: Far from academic and canonic contemporary improvisation classes, the School of Disobedience's improvisation method is directly inspired by photographic processing:
- observing life;
- exposing to light;
- fixing the moment;
- developing the image.
Sessions begin with a short dynamic warm-up to awaken the senses and bring awareness to the body and mind. Then guided by creative instructions and tasks, you will playfully delve into improvisation. You will compose dance in the moment, develop your unique artistic voice and personal aesthetics, improvise as soloists, with partners, and in group forms, lose yourself in a safe space free from judgment where anything can happen.
Whether you are a dancer, closet dancer, non-dancer, musician, artist of any art form, or anyone really, this class is open to all of you.
SEPTEMBER 26
19.30-20.30: CREATION - COMPOSITION CLASS
19.30-20.30: CREATION - COMPOSITION CLASS
Topics: trust, commitment, norms, and dependence
About: Following a short introduction and group discussion based on readings, life experience, self-examination, participants will receive some simple choreographic material and sequences on the topics of trust, commitment, norms, and dependence in relationship dynamics. Then participants will be invited to reflect on the topic, work as soloists, with partners, and in group to create a performance on their own. We will close the class with sharing the created works, learn how to give and receive constructive feedbacks.
About: Following a short introduction and group discussion based on readings, life experience, self-examination, participants will receive some simple choreographic material and sequences on the topics of trust, commitment, norms, and dependence in relationship dynamics. Then participants will be invited to reflect on the topic, work as soloists, with partners, and in group to create a performance on their own. We will close the class with sharing the created works, learn how to give and receive constructive feedbacks.
SEPTEMBER 27
14.00-14.45: Debate - CRITICAL THINKING
14.00-14.45: Debate - CRITICAL THINKING
Topics: passion and co-dependency
About: 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?
About: 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?
SEPTEMBER 27
14.45-15.30: Movement research LABORATORY
14.45-15.30: Movement research LABORATORY
Topics: rejection, separation, breakup
About: The class will hold a strong emphasis on generating non-verbal language and connection. Movement instructions, creative tasks, phrase work, discussions, improvisation, movement research, composition, creation, and final presentation will center around the topics of rejection, separation, and breakup in relationship dynamics. This thematic class is inviting participants to step out of their comfort zone, transform their imagination and open themselves to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the class participants discover different techniques and tools to generate both new works and seeds for the work they are in the midst of creating. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, they move back and forth between choreographing, performing, writing, and drawing. Participants also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) after the presentation of the performance they created as soloists, with partners, or in group during the session.
About: The class will hold a strong emphasis on generating non-verbal language and connection. Movement instructions, creative tasks, phrase work, discussions, improvisation, movement research, composition, creation, and final presentation will center around the topics of rejection, separation, and breakup in relationship dynamics. This thematic class is inviting participants to step out of their comfort zone, transform their imagination and open themselves to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the class participants discover different techniques and tools to generate both new works and seeds for the work they are in the midst of creating. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, they move back and forth between choreographing, performing, writing, and drawing. Participants also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) after the presentation of the performance they created as soloists, with partners, or in group during the session.
SEPTEMBER 27
16.00-18.00: Repertoire class: "Right for Fight" (2022)
16.00-18.00: Repertoire class: "Right for Fight" (2022)
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
14.00-15.30: Women's Erotic Writing Circle & Lecture performance
Topics: desire, appeal, lust, tenderness, intimacy
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.
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.
SEPTEMBER 29
16.00-18.00: Topless Erotic Drawing Studio
16.00-18.00: Topless Erotic Drawing Studio
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.
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 - SELF DEFENSE CLASS
18.00-19.00: Feminist Fight Club - SELF DEFENSE CLASS
Feminist Fight Clubs are political soft spaces of care and empowerment, where through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we occupy the space, 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.
SEPTEMBER 30
19.30-20.30: Clean Techno Clubbing
19.30-20.30: Clean Techno Clubbing
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. Let's enjoy together techno clubbing without drugs and alcohol, staying sober, safe, fresh, and healthy.
practical information
Conditions of participation: Open for all women, regardless of age, professional or educational background.
Technical level: Our classes are adapted to every type of body, and doesn't require any specific artistic skill, experience or knowledge.
Creative space: While classes are precious time for self-reflection and sharing, these are not therapeutic but creative spaces. Hearing from others and sharing your own experiences may bring up certain strong emotions so will not be suitable for everyone. If you are feeling particularly vulnerable at this time or, for example, have been recently bereaved, please consider carefully whether to attend our classes this fall.
Secular space: Without absolutely any kind of ideological, philosophical, religious, spiritual, political, etc. intention, rhetoric, and influence, we will only encourage you to discover your own values, boundaries and rules, nothing more. Not to follow others, not to live for others, not to perform for others, not to respond to others expectations, but to be your own boss: trust in yourself, believe in yourself, love yourself.
Fee:
Unlearning facilitators: Anna Ádám and Eva Mora
Flexible commitment: You don't have to follow the whole program. You can decide to attend only one or several classes.
Organized by:
Technical level: Our classes are adapted to every type of body, and doesn't require any specific artistic skill, experience or knowledge.
Creative space: While classes are precious time for self-reflection and sharing, these are not therapeutic but creative spaces. Hearing from others and sharing your own experiences may bring up certain strong emotions so will not be suitable for everyone. If you are feeling particularly vulnerable at this time or, for example, have been recently bereaved, please consider carefully whether to attend our classes this fall.
Secular space: Without absolutely any kind of ideological, philosophical, religious, spiritual, political, etc. intention, rhetoric, and influence, we will only encourage you to discover your own values, boundaries and rules, nothing more. Not to follow others, not to live for others, not to perform for others, not to respond to others expectations, but to be your own boss: trust in yourself, believe in yourself, love yourself.
Fee:
- Option A: 20€ / class
- Option B: "Work exchange": you have free access to classes in exchange of some community work (eg. social media, text writing, photography, translation, running classes / relaxation / meditation, holding mini-workshops, sharing tools / techniques / knowledge / emotions, healing, care, group-reading, group-dreaming...)
Unlearning facilitators: Anna Ádám and Eva Mora
Flexible commitment: You don't have to follow the whole program. You can decide to attend only one or several classes.
Organized by:
- Studio ALTA (Czech Republic)
- School of Disobedience (France)
- Gray Box Performance Art Company (France)
a safe space for all women
Zsófia Danka: Do you think the exclusion of men is problematic in a society as polarized as ours?
Anna Ádám: No. In a women exclusive community, trust is built up much more quickly, because we are "sisters", we understand each other in half-sentences, we have a lot in common, and it is good to talk about these things together. There are very few spaces reserved to women only, and if there are any, they are usually not about self-liberation. I'm thinking of the delivery room, the convent or the prison for example. I feel a safe space reserved for women only is needed, and actually all my students agree on that.
The whole interview available here in Hungarian:
Zsófia Danka: There's nothing more exhilarating than freedom: Politics and queer identity in 2021 - Interview with Anna Ádám
Új Művészet, 2022. február 18. ╱ Labor
Anna Ádám: No. In a women exclusive community, trust is built up much more quickly, because we are "sisters", we understand each other in half-sentences, we have a lot in common, and it is good to talk about these things together. There are very few spaces reserved to women only, and if there are any, they are usually not about self-liberation. I'm thinking of the delivery room, the convent or the prison for example. I feel a safe space reserved for women only is needed, and actually all my students agree on that.
The whole interview available here in Hungarian:
Zsófia Danka: There's nothing more exhilarating than freedom: Politics and queer identity in 2021 - Interview with Anna Ádám
Új Művészet, 2022. február 18. ╱ Labor
