Bringing performance, critical theories, and psychology together, "Right for Fight" is an experimental platform where we explore emotional bonding mechanisms (closeness, dependency, avoidance, and anxiety), attachment styles, and patterns in relationship dynamics.
Through a series of classes (performance, improvisation, repertoire, play fight, self-defense, creation, composition...), we address a variety of questions, such as: What are the distorted beliefs about love that justifies and legitimates the presence of violence in a relationship and where does it come from? How do we perceive and deal with closeness and emotional intimacy? What does "security" mean to us? What are our modes of responding to conflict?
In each class, we improvise, move, play, and perform.
We tinker gestures, craft movements, design sequences, and transform some major emotional mechanisms (eg. repression, regression, projection, reaction formation, and sublimation) into choreographic materials.
We look for ambiguity, nuances and different shades of grey.
Enjoy in-betweens, wiggle rooms, doubt, and uncertainty.
Welcome diversity, applaud critical and divergent thinking, celebrate disagreement, dissent, and nonconformity.
Through a series of classes (performance, improvisation, repertoire, play fight, self-defense, creation, composition...), we address a variety of questions, such as: What are the distorted beliefs about love that justifies and legitimates the presence of violence in a relationship and where does it come from? How do we perceive and deal with closeness and emotional intimacy? What does "security" mean to us? What are our modes of responding to conflict?
In each class, we improvise, move, play, and perform.
We tinker gestures, craft movements, design sequences, and transform some major emotional mechanisms (eg. repression, regression, projection, reaction formation, and sublimation) into choreographic materials.
We look for ambiguity, nuances and different shades of grey.
Enjoy in-betweens, wiggle rooms, doubt, and uncertainty.
Welcome diversity, applaud critical and divergent thinking, celebrate disagreement, dissent, and nonconformity.
schedule
You don't have to follow the whole program.
You can register independently to each class!
OCTOBER 10
Topic: "TRUST"
Activities:
OCTOBER 11
Topic: "COMMITMENT"
Activities:
OCTOBER 12
Topic: "NORMS"
Activities:
OCTOBER 13
Topic: "DEPENDENCE"
Activities:
You can register independently to each class!
OCTOBER 10
Topic: "TRUST"
Activities:
- 18.00-19.00: Thinking in images: Improvisation
- 19.00-20.00: Repertoire + Research / Composition / Creation
- 20.00-21.00: Fight Club + Sober Techno
OCTOBER 11
Topic: "COMMITMENT"
Activities:
- 18.00-19.00: Thinking in images: Improvisation
- 19.00-20.00: Repertoire + Research / Composition / Creation
- 20.00-21.00: Fight Club + Sober Techno
OCTOBER 12
Topic: "NORMS"
Activities:
- 18.00-19.00: Thinking in images: Improvisation
- 19.00-20.00: Repertoire + Research / Composition / Creation
- 20.00-21.00: Fight Club + Sober Techno
OCTOBER 13
Topic: "DEPENDENCE"
Activities:
- 18.00-19.00: Thinking in images: Improvisation
- 19.00-20.00: Repertoire + Research / Composition / Creation
- 20.00-21.00: Fight Club + Sober Techno
class descriptions
These classes hold a strong emphasis on generating non-verbal language and connection. Movement instructions, creative tasks, phrase work, discussions, improvisation, choreographic research, composition and creation center around each day's topic.
thinking in images
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 and instant composition. 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.
- 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 and instant composition. 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.
Repertoire
You will learn some choreographic phrases from the performance Right for Fight (2022), the Gray Box company’s latest work. You will discover the maker's, Anna Ádám's movement vocabulary, her choreographic approach, and working method. Through short sequences you will explore your own strength, physicality, and creativity , focus on your feelings and intuition, place your sensations into physical form.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
This thematic class will invite you to step out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the class you will discover different techniques and tools 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 choreographing, performing, writing, and drawing.
COMPOSITION
Stay for an additional hour to delve into composition. Using movements from the "Movement Research" class, this extra time will enable you to put together movements into phrases and sequences through creative tasks and instructions.
CREATION
Stay for an additional hour to delve into choreography. Using movement phrases from the "Composition" class, this extra class will enable you to play, tinker, craft, and put together your sequences into choreography through creative tasks and instructions.
Following a short introduction and group discussion based on 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 the topic of the day. 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).
Following a short introduction and group discussion based on 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 the topic of the day. 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).
FIGHT CLUB
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.
SOBER TECHNO
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
Fee:
Dance Studio
BAMP - Brussels Art Melting Pot
37 avenue Sleeckx
Brussels, Belgium
Unlearning facilitators: Anna Ádám, 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:
- 15€ / class
- 30€ / day
- 100€ / week
Dance Studio
BAMP - Brussels Art Melting Pot
37 avenue Sleeckx
Brussels, Belgium
Unlearning facilitators: Anna Ádám, 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:
- School of Disobedience (France)
- Gray Box Performance Art Company (France)
