past events
open stage
[HU] Te is írsz szövegeket, versket, vagy bármit, amit szívesen megosztanál másokkal? Mindegy milyen műfajban, most végre itt az alkalom!
[ENG] Do you write texts, poems or anything you'd like to share with others? Whatever the genre, now's your chance!
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
[ENG] Do you write texts, poems or anything you'd like to share with others? Whatever the genre, now's your chance!
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
"Right for Fight"
performance
[HU] Vak szerelemből felismerés, elfogultságból csalódás, harmóniából konfliktus, szabadságból bezártság... Szakítani akarunk, közben megbocsátani, egyedül is lenni meg együtt is, döntéseket hozni majd visszacsinálni, határokat szabni és mégis átlépni. Bizonytalanság, elveszettség, zavarodottság, miközben zúg a fülünkben, hogy "igen", "nem", "mégsem", "mégis", vagy inkább "talán"...
[ENG] From love to indifference, blindness to open eyes, idealisation 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 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.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
[ENG] From love to indifference, blindness to open eyes, idealisation 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 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.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
performance evening
[HU] Tíz, maximum tíz perces előadás egy este leforgása alatt. Mind radikális, kísérleti, meredek. Személyes, őszinte, bátor.
Az estére pályázat során lehetett jelentkezni. Zsűrizés nem volt. Így az első tíz beérkezett projektet láthatjátok. Reményeink szerint "fura" lesz, vagyis kánonon kívüli, szokatlan.
[ENG] Ten performances in one evening, max. 10-min-long each. All personal, honest, brave. Radical, out-of-the-box, experimental. Anybody could apply with a proposition through an open call. There was no selection process: you will see the the first ten proposals we received.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
Az estére pályázat során lehetett jelentkezni. Zsűrizés nem volt. Így az első tíz beérkezett projektet láthatjátok. Reményeink szerint "fura" lesz, vagyis kánonon kívüli, szokatlan.
[ENG] Ten performances in one evening, max. 10-min-long each. All personal, honest, brave. Radical, out-of-the-box, experimental. Anybody could apply with a proposition through an open call. There was no selection process: you will see the the first ten proposals we received.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
sober techno
[HU] Indítsd be természetes úton a boldogság-hormonjaidat! A “Sober Techno” az egyik legintenzívebb és legfelszabadítóbb programunk. Party józanul, teljes biztonságban, másnaposság nélkül.
[ENG] 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.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
[ENG] 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.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
writing club
Far from academic norms and conventions, this non-canonical creative writing class will support you to constantly question "Dos" and "Don'ts", challenge literary canons and accepted rules related to syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and ponctuation. This class will extend your conception of what is "text" to allow you to go far beyond mainstream literary genres, standardized writing techniques, attitudes, and practices. It will give you new ideas, insights, and perspectives, encourage you to take risks, explore new ways of narrating, composing, and creating, develop your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic. Our exercises will guide you to take the path of the non-conform, explore with confidence the unknown, the unusual, the unfamiliar, and the unexpected in literacy creation.
This session's topic will be: "The gaze"
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
This session's topic will be: "The gaze"
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
play fight club
[HU] Gyakoroljuk a szemkontaktust, uraljuk a teret, felszabadítjuk a testünket, megtudjuk mennyire vagyunk erősek, kitartóak, bátrak. Az izmainkkal együtt játékosan építjük az önbizalmunkat is.
LÁNYOK! Rendhagyó alkalom: Az év elején Szenegálban töltöttem két hónapot, ahol a helyi birkózási technikát tanultam. Ezen a rendhagyó foglalkozáson elsősorban a tanulmányút alatt elsajátított tudást fogom átadni.
[ENG] Through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we learn how to occupy a space, liberate our body and voice, discover our power and challenge our strength, develop self-confidence and resistance. 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.
GIRLS! During this special session, I will mainly be passing on the knowledge I acquired during my study trip in Senegal where I learned the local traditional wrestling technique during two months.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
LÁNYOK! Rendhagyó alkalom: Az év elején Szenegálban töltöttem két hónapot, ahol a helyi birkózási technikát tanultam. Ezen a rendhagyó foglalkozáson elsősorban a tanulmányút alatt elsajátított tudást fogom átadni.
[ENG] Through the practice of play fighting and self-defense, we learn how to occupy a space, liberate our body and voice, discover our power and challenge our strength, develop self-confidence and resistance. 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.
GIRLS! During this special session, I will mainly be passing on the knowledge I acquired during my study trip in Senegal where I learned the local traditional wrestling technique during two months.
NEXT SESSION: SEPTEMBER 2023
theory
ABOUT
Week-long workshops on a specific topic linked to the fields of sociology, psychology, geopolitics, and dramaturgy, questioning socio-political contexts, inequalities, power dynamics, social justice, hegemonic class, normative behaviors, dominant ideologies.
Activities include: lecture, readings, screenings, historical material, archives, divers audiovisual resources, discussion, writing, presenting...
TOPICS
Module 1:
Week-long workshops on a specific topic linked to the fields of sociology, psychology, geopolitics, and dramaturgy, questioning socio-political contexts, inequalities, power dynamics, social justice, hegemonic class, normative behaviors, dominant ideologies.
Activities include: lecture, readings, screenings, historical material, archives, divers audiovisual resources, discussion, writing, presenting...
TOPICS
Module 1:
- Iris Medeiros (Brazil): "Ways and meanings of the touch: a tool for empowerment, well-being, and knowledge"
- Masha Kardash (Ukraine): "Self-exoticism and post-socialist femininity: demystifying the ‘exotic’ body in Eastern Europe"
- Sara Mychkine (France / Tunisia): "I. Decanonizing modern art: from painting to performance. II. Birthing new space-times outside of the box"
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Unreason & Madness: I. The social and cultural construction of madness II. Pathologization, social exclusion, activism III. The unknown and the unexpected"
PRACTICE
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Week-long workshops linked to a performing art form (dance, music, theatre, spoken word / lecture, creative writing, puppetry / object-theater, performance art...) or body practice, having a specific topic, cultural context, and artistic outcome.
Activities include: movement practice, dance, performance, creative writing, poetry & lecture, dj & mixing, choral, voice training, zine making...
PRACTICE PROJECTS
Module 1:
Week-long workshops linked to a performing art form (dance, music, theatre, spoken word / lecture, creative writing, puppetry / object-theater, performance art...) or body practice, having a specific topic, cultural context, and artistic outcome.
Activities include: movement practice, dance, performance, creative writing, poetry & lecture, dj & mixing, choral, voice training, zine making...
PRACTICE PROJECTS
Module 1:
- Penelope Morout (Greece / France): "Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release"
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Body politics"
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "The sketchbook project"
- Lu Lin (China): "Reading My Panties: stories, relations, politics, dogmas, and taboos related to cultural differences"
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Wildflowers Festival: organizing, curating & programming a community festival"
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Personal Mythologies: an immersive creative writing experience
- Sarah Diep (France): "Sound poetry: reclaim your own narrative / dj mixing, field recording and voices
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): “Character building, script writing, directing, performing, and live streaming a 3-days-long reality show on romantic, adventure, food, dating, and fashion”
TECHNIQUE
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Week-long technique and dance style workshops far from western academic canons and/or beauty norms, composed of both a movement practice part (combinations, short sequences, phrases, etc) and a sharing part (historical, cultural, and socio-political background).
MAIN TECHNIQUES
Module 1:
Week-long technique and dance style workshops far from western academic canons and/or beauty norms, composed of both a movement practice part (combinations, short sequences, phrases, etc) and a sharing part (historical, cultural, and socio-political background).
- Dance techniques: Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria), Funk carioca (twerk), Contemporary / Improvisation, Release, Fusion Bellydance, Waacking
- Relaxation, grounding & healing techniques: Qi-gong, Tai Chi, Guided Yoga, Breathing techniques, Guided Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing, Moongoddess & Dragonbreath Method, Shiatsu Japanese Massage
- Martial art techniques: Kung Fu (Chinese martial art), Play Fight, Self-defense, Kalaripayattu (Indian martial art), Budo (Japanese martial art)
- Flow toy techniques: 3 ball juggling, Staff spinning, Hula hooping, Poi spinning
MAIN TECHNIQUES
Module 1:
- Luana Naquin (France): "Introduction to Afro fusion dance styles: Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria)"
- Marion Filippi (France): "Multi sensorial journey: Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing"
- Adriatica Bodyart (Brazil / Germany): "Moongoddess Dance & Dragonbreath with Body painting: introduction to Fusion Bellydance and Waacking"
- Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia): "Tame the Dragon: Introduction to Qi-gong & Kung Fu"
- Zsuzsa Bakonyi (Hungary): "Enjoy your flow toys: juggling, poi & staff spinning, hula hooping"
- Yuta Ishikawa (Japan): "Body Weather: Introduction to Shiatsu & Budo"
PROJECT
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Week-long workshops where a guest artist, maker, choreographer, composer shares her ongoing creation project with student: invites students into her artistic world, shares her tools and working method, tests her craziest ideas, tries out new things, deepens her research, rehearses, composes, creates wit the group.
Activities include: movement research, experimentation, creation, composition, repertoire, rehearsal, final sharing...
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS
Week-long workshops where a guest artist, maker, choreographer, composer shares her ongoing creation project with student: invites students into her artistic world, shares her tools and working method, tests her craziest ideas, tries out new things, deepens her research, rehearses, composes, creates wit the group.
Activities include: movement research, experimentation, creation, composition, repertoire, rehearsal, final sharing...
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS
- Module 1: Marion Binois (France): "Monster: as a liberation of the submerged side of the iceberg, that is hidden, unaccepted, uncontrolled"
- Module 2: Priiya Prethora (India): "Facing Traces: Decolonial and emancipatory movement practice based on Kalaripayattu and performance creation with a sound archive on history, memory and identity"
- Module 3: Ashley Vu (France / Vietnam): "In the “boat-people” lineage: (Im)migration movement, uprooting and search for identity"
well-being
ABOUT
Week-long workshops where we learn how to take care about our body, how to accept and appreciate it. Through a series of healing technique, relaxation technique, manual technique, therapeutic practice, will learn how to rest, how to enjoy taking the time for ourselves, how to develop our own self-care and self-love routine.
Activities include: yoga, relaxation, massage, care, healing and therapeutic practices...
TECHNIQUES & TOOLS
Week-long workshops where we learn how to take care about our body, how to accept and appreciate it. Through a series of healing technique, relaxation technique, manual technique, therapeutic practice, will learn how to rest, how to enjoy taking the time for ourselves, how to develop our own self-care and self-love routine.
Activities include: yoga, relaxation, massage, care, healing and therapeutic practices...
TECHNIQUES & TOOLS
- Module 1: Marion Filippi (France): "Multi sensorial journey: Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Healing voices (Choral meditation)"
- Module 2: Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia): "Tame the Dragon: Introduction to Qi-gong & Kung Fu"
- Module 3: Yuta Ishikawa (Japan): "Body Weather: Introduction to Shiatsu & Budo"
COMMUNITY
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Week-long workshops seen as “calls 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.
Activities include: immersive group experiences, community cooking, group rituals and ceremonies, excursion, hiking...
PROJECTS
Week-long workshops seen as “calls 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.
Activities include: immersive group experiences, community cooking, group rituals and ceremonies, excursion, hiking...
PROJECTS
- Module 1: Judit Kis (Hungary): "The power of communal farming and cooking to inspire, heal, and create communities."
- Module 2: Luca Borsos (Hungary): "Underground Budapest: How to occupy public spaces - reinventing our ways to intervene"
- Module 3: Tekla Gedeon (Hungary): "The giant who sunk in soil: experiencing with lichen colonies of the Kerepesi Cemetery & making a collective woven tapestry"
MARTIAL ART & Self-defense
ABOUT
Fight Clubs are political soft spaces of care and empowerment, where through the practice of martial arts, play fight, 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.
TECHNIQUES
Module 1:
Fight Clubs are political soft spaces of care and empowerment, where through the practice of martial arts, play fight, 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.
TECHNIQUES
Module 1:
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Play Fight & Self-Defense" (Wildflowers Festival)
- Swapnapriiya Manna (India): "Kalaripayattu, an Indian martial art"
- Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia): "Wushu (Kung Fu), a full-contact Chinese combat sport"
- Yuta Ishikawa (Japan): "Budo, a Japanese martial art"
RELAXATION, RELEASE, GROUNDING
ABOUT
Learn release and grounding techniques, focus on breathing, muscle relaxation.
METHODS
Module 1:
Learn release and grounding techniques, focus on breathing, muscle relaxation.
METHODS
Module 1:
- Penelope Morout (Greece / France): "Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release"
- Marion Filippi (France): "Guided yoga & Healing voices meditation"
- Adriatica Bodyart (Brazil / Germany): "Moongoddess Breathing technique"
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Sober Techno" (Wildflowers Festival)
- Yuta Ishikawa (Japan): "Body Weather method"
Improvisation
ABOUT
Far from academic and canonic contemporary dance and improvisation classes, the School of Disobedience's performance improvisation method is rather inspired by abstract art in terms of thinking, and by photography in terms of making. It denies physical virtuosity, skillful trick, technical stratagem, aesthetic artifice, and more broadly classicism’s emphasis on imitation. Instead it stress the role of imagination and of the unconscious as the essential creative factors with a structure directly rooted into photographic processing:
METHODS
Far from academic and canonic contemporary dance and improvisation classes, the School of Disobedience's performance improvisation method is rather inspired by abstract art in terms of thinking, and by photography in terms of making. It denies physical virtuosity, skillful trick, technical stratagem, aesthetic artifice, and more broadly classicism’s emphasis on imitation. Instead it stress the role of imagination and of the unconscious as the essential creative factors with a structure directly rooted into photographic processing:
- observing life;
- exposing to light;
- fixing the moment;
- developing the image.
METHODS
- Module 1: Penelope Morout (Greece / France): "Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release"
- Module 2: Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Thinking in Images: improvisation with a photography archive" (Wildflowers Festival)
Repertoire
ABOUT
You will learn some choreographies from the Gray Box repertoire, some solos from "sorry not sorry" (2018) or "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" (2022). You will discover the choreographer’s, Anna Ádám's movement vocabulary, her choreographic approach, and working method. This intensive repertoire class will be a unique opportunity to explore your strength in terms of physicality. You will exclusively work on solos. Your solo will be chosen according to your research field, interest, emotional state, mental availability.
"sorry not sorry" (2018) is composed of 3 solos:
"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" (2022) is composed of 3 solos:
CHOREOGRAPHER
You will learn some choreographies from the Gray Box repertoire, some solos from "sorry not sorry" (2018) or "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" (2022). You will discover the choreographer’s, Anna Ádám's movement vocabulary, her choreographic approach, and working method. This intensive repertoire class will be a unique opportunity to explore your strength in terms of physicality. You will exclusively work on solos. Your solo will be chosen according to your research field, interest, emotional state, mental availability.
"sorry not sorry" (2018) is composed of 3 solos:
- “CLASH”, a solo on finding our own path.
- “Dirty Dancing”, a solo on intimacy and desire.
- “Secret Garden”, a solo on culpability.
"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" (2022) is composed of 3 solos:
- “Who is the boss?”, a solo on domination, oppression and exploitation
- “CRISIS BEFORE CRISIS”, a solo on the feeling of being lost, overwhelmed, caught in a downward spiral from which it seems complicated to get out.
- “MÖBIUS”, a solo on powerlessness, being manipulated and trapped by an enclosing system
CHOREOGRAPHER
- Anna Ádám (Hungary)
STUDIO TIME & MOVEMENT RESEARCH
ABOUT
You will have studio time reserved to research on your own. In this space, you will be encouraged to step out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. You will find ways 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.
SCHEDULE
You will have studio time reserved to research on your own. In this space, you will be encouraged to step out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. You will find ways 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.
SCHEDULE
- Module 1: Studio time: Movement research lab & Personal creation
- Module 2: Studio time: Movement research lab & Personal creation
- Module 3: Studio time: Movement research lab & Personal creation
CREATION & COMPOSITION
ABOUT
You will be guided to play, tinker, craft, and put together your sequences into choreography through creative tasks and instructions. Following studio time, movement research, readings, life experience, self-examination, you will be invited to reflect and work as soloists, with partners, or in group to create a performance in relation with a given topic. You will also receive a choreographic toolbox together with one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details). You will have the opportunity to show your work in front of an audience.
SCHEDULE
You will be guided to play, tinker, craft, and put together your sequences into choreography through creative tasks and instructions. Following studio time, movement research, readings, life experience, self-examination, you will be invited to reflect and work as soloists, with partners, or in group to create a performance in relation with a given topic. You will also receive a choreographic toolbox together with one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details). You will have the opportunity to show your work in front of an audience.
SCHEDULE
- Module 1: Personal creation: "Performance" & Showcase
- Module 2: Personal creation: "Experience" & Showcase
- Module 3: Personal creation: "Community" & Showcase
CREATIVE WRITING
ABOUT
Far from academic norms and conventions, our non-canonical creative writing class will support you to constantly question "Dos" and "Don'ts", challenge literary canons and accepted rules related to syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and ponctuation. This class will extend your conception of what is "text" to allow you to go far beyond mainstream literary genres, standardized writing techniques, attitudes, and practices. It will give you new ideas, insights, and perspectives, encourage you to take risks, explore new ways of narrating, composing, and creating, develop your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic. Our exercises will guide you to take the path of the non-conform, explore with confidence the unknown, the unusual, the unfamiliar, and the unexpected in literacy creation.
SCHEDULE
Far from academic norms and conventions, our non-canonical creative writing class will support you to constantly question "Dos" and "Don'ts", challenge literary canons and accepted rules related to syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and ponctuation. This class will extend your conception of what is "text" to allow you to go far beyond mainstream literary genres, standardized writing techniques, attitudes, and practices. It will give you new ideas, insights, and perspectives, encourage you to take risks, explore new ways of narrating, composing, and creating, develop your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic. Our exercises will guide you to take the path of the non-conform, explore with confidence the unknown, the unusual, the unfamiliar, and the unexpected in literacy creation.
SCHEDULE
- Module 2: Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Personal Mythologies: an immersive creative writing experience"
In the "School is Disobedience" we will not teach to you to break the law, we will neither burn the civil code nor the Bible, we will not encourage you spitting on a police officer, insulting security guards, using verbal or physical violence, aggressiveness, brutality, vandalism, we will definitely not telling you to steal, cheat or lie at all, at all, at all! Quite the opposite...
We will teach you respect, empathy, open-mindedness, and tolerance towards difference and divergence. We will insist on authenticity, sincerity, generosity: we believe in you, we believe in your art, go further and further, make people be impacted by. We will encourage you to be honest and engaged, simple, humble and generous, free and independent, confident and strong. We will guide you to create meaningful and powerful art with a very personal, original and outstanding point of view.
We will develop your capacity of resisting, defying and revolting in two steps:
We will teach you respect, empathy, open-mindedness, and tolerance towards difference and divergence. We will insist on authenticity, sincerity, generosity: we believe in you, we believe in your art, go further and further, make people be impacted by. We will encourage you to be honest and engaged, simple, humble and generous, free and independent, confident and strong. We will guide you to create meaningful and powerful art with a very personal, original and outstanding point of view.
We will develop your capacity of resisting, defying and revolting in two steps:
- During the first part of the program, we will encourage you to disobey to yourself, step out of your comfort zone, overcame your barriers, break your personal rules both in the mind and in the body. Many of us are engaged in self-destructive behaviors that have become habits. In both our personal and professional lives, we sometimes find ways to damage or destroy ourselves physically, mentally, or emotionally. At times we deliberately prevent our own success and overall well-being. Let's recognize self-sabotaging habits. Let's try to understand it, identify root causes. Let's take time for self-reflection. Let's disobey to our fears, negative thoughts, counterproductive beliefs, and harmful emotions. Let's find your inner positive voice. Fight against and disobey to your pattern of behavior and habits. Make small but meaningful changes. Set personal and professional goals and make beautiful plans. Realize your dreams.
- During the second part of the program, we will teach you to disobey to others' gaze, judgements and expectations. Free yourself from your class, from your position, from your social status! Stop wanting to prove yourself to the art world, to be validated with an institution, stop using terminologies and theoretical references just because it is "required". Stop being manipulated by the market, stop creating for open calls, stop adapting your art, stop responding to trends. Resist, defy, revolt! We will teach you not to look for what looks good, what’s nice, what will the audience like, how will teachers and professionals react, what will the others think about. We will always tell you to do only what you personally like and believe in. To be concerned with what you want to say instead of how. To try out something completely new. Instead of avoiding, we will suggest you to look specifically for the risky, the unusual, the unknown, the weird, the uncanny. Not to throw away your "strange" ideas, but try them one by one. Try in art, with art, for art and through art everything you haven’t had time or haven’t had the courage to do so far. Be autonomous, be independent, be freely and proudly yourself.
Classes are not held by "teachers" but by artists, collectives, representatives of local NGO-s, associations, and grassroots initiatives. We can say that this is a fieldwork- and practice-oriented school in which participants are not sitting passively in a classroom and conceptualizing nice things for the elite, but actually they are creating for everyone, making concrete actions for a better future, building bridges between those who have access to knowledge and art, and those who do not.
We - staff and participants included - believe that art can be used as a tool for social justice, and art can make the difference.
Instead of "regular classes", the school is composed of modular indoor and outdoor immersive experiences, field works with other social groups and micro-communities (juvenile gangs, clubs, sororities, the elderly, high school students...), in addition to creating, curating and organizing public events (exhibition, performance, public space intervention, rituals, celebrations, hiking...).
The program briefly introduces to participants a series of theoretical disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology, sexuality-, gender and queer Studies, womens' rights, body politics, auto-ethnography, politics of desire...), concepts (domination, oppression, collaboration, togetherness, collectivity, leadership, fear, trust, desire, love, intimacy, sexuality, life cycle, care, rituals, healing, sisterhood, witchcraft, eco-feminism...), artistic expressions (dance, choreography, performance, visual arts, community art, social choreography, experience design, immersive installations, digital media art, audio-visual displays, construction of interactive and multi-sensorial devices, costume design, mask making, creative writing...) together with professional tools (collaboration and co-creation practices, collective working methods...).
Challenging artistic conventions and traditional canons, confronting standards, beauty norms, questioning social norms allow participants to acquire the ability to think and act freely and critically without worrying about others' gaze, judgment and expectations.
Day after day participants get to know themselves better and better, they develop self-confidence and self-love, in other words they build a solid basis to become afterwards autonomous and courageous people: dare to be themselves, fearlessly follow their own path, and be proudly and confidently themselves!
We - staff and participants included - believe that art can be used as a tool for social justice, and art can make the difference.
Instead of "regular classes", the school is composed of modular indoor and outdoor immersive experiences, field works with other social groups and micro-communities (juvenile gangs, clubs, sororities, the elderly, high school students...), in addition to creating, curating and organizing public events (exhibition, performance, public space intervention, rituals, celebrations, hiking...).
The program briefly introduces to participants a series of theoretical disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology, sexuality-, gender and queer Studies, womens' rights, body politics, auto-ethnography, politics of desire...), concepts (domination, oppression, collaboration, togetherness, collectivity, leadership, fear, trust, desire, love, intimacy, sexuality, life cycle, care, rituals, healing, sisterhood, witchcraft, eco-feminism...), artistic expressions (dance, choreography, performance, visual arts, community art, social choreography, experience design, immersive installations, digital media art, audio-visual displays, construction of interactive and multi-sensorial devices, costume design, mask making, creative writing...) together with professional tools (collaboration and co-creation practices, collective working methods...).
Challenging artistic conventions and traditional canons, confronting standards, beauty norms, questioning social norms allow participants to acquire the ability to think and act freely and critically without worrying about others' gaze, judgment and expectations.
Day after day participants get to know themselves better and better, they develop self-confidence and self-love, in other words they build a solid basis to become afterwards autonomous and courageous people: dare to be themselves, fearlessly follow their own path, and be proudly and confidently themselves!