3-month Masterclass in somatic and experimental writing
September 7 – November 27, 2026
Budapest, Hungary
24 hours / week · Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Budapest, Hungary
24 hours / week · Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
A transformative three-month immersion for writers, poets, performers, and interdisciplinary artists who want to explore experimental text practices, develop an embodied writing method, and transition their work from page to performance.
This Masterclass combines studio practice, somatic and interdisciplinary methods, daily writing time, voice training, dramaturgical refinement, and monthly public lecture-performances.
This Masterclass combines studio practice, somatic and interdisciplinary methods, daily writing time, voice training, dramaturgical refinement, and monthly public lecture-performances.
👉 If three months feels too long, discover our 10-day Writer’s Residency.
👉 If travel isn’t possible, our Online Writing School is here for you.
👉 If travel isn’t possible, our Online Writing School is here for you.
WHAT IS SOMATIC WRITING?
Somatic writing is an approach to writing that begins in the body rather than in the intellect. Instead of producing language from ideas alone, words emerge from sensation, breath, memory, rhythm, posture, and emotional states.
In the Somatic Writing Masterclass, somatic writing is approached situationally. Each month, writing is paired with another artistic field — Text & Movement, Text & Object, Text & Drawing, Text & Map, Text & Photography, Text & Sound — as a way to create concrete conditions for writing to happen and to provoke the unexpected.
These pairings generate immersive, emotionally rich, embodied experiences: moving, composing with objects, somatic drawing, body mapping, deep listening, building simple sound environments. Writing exercises are always rooted in what has been physically, sensorially, and spatially experienced. The text does not precede the experience; it responds to it.
By listening to the body’s impulses — its tensions and releases, images, rhythms, and internal shifts — writing becomes grounded and precise. This approach allows access to material that is difficult to reach through analysis alone, opens unexpected narrative pathways, and lets language carry emotional weight without explanation.
Somatic writing, as practiced here, is not about expression for its own sake. It is a rigorous method that sharpens attention, expands vocabulary, clarifies artistic choices, and strengthens the relationship between language, body, and presence. Writing becomes a living practice — situated, embodied, and unmistakably one’s own.
In the Somatic Writing Masterclass, somatic writing is approached situationally. Each month, writing is paired with another artistic field — Text & Movement, Text & Object, Text & Drawing, Text & Map, Text & Photography, Text & Sound — as a way to create concrete conditions for writing to happen and to provoke the unexpected.
These pairings generate immersive, emotionally rich, embodied experiences: moving, composing with objects, somatic drawing, body mapping, deep listening, building simple sound environments. Writing exercises are always rooted in what has been physically, sensorially, and spatially experienced. The text does not precede the experience; it responds to it.
By listening to the body’s impulses — its tensions and releases, images, rhythms, and internal shifts — writing becomes grounded and precise. This approach allows access to material that is difficult to reach through analysis alone, opens unexpected narrative pathways, and lets language carry emotional weight without explanation.
Somatic writing, as practiced here, is not about expression for its own sake. It is a rigorous method that sharpens attention, expands vocabulary, clarifies artistic choices, and strengthens the relationship between language, body, and presence. Writing becomes a living practice — situated, embodied, and unmistakably one’s own.
What Makes Our Masterclass Unique?
This masterclass stands apart from traditional writing programs first through its technical scope. While most courses focus exclusively on literary technique, genre, and craft, this program brings together traditional creative writing tools with experimental, somatic, and expressive methods. Writing is treated as a skill to be sharpened, but also as a practice to be expanded — one that involves the body, perception, rhythm, and attention.
Secondly, the process itself is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Writing is consistently paired with other artistic fields — movement, objects, drawing, mapping, photography, sound — not as illustration or inspiration alone, but as embodied writing methods. These practices create concrete situations from which language emerges. The text does not float abstractly; it is produced in relation to space, action, material, and experience.
The program also differs in how it understands the form of writing. Here, text is approached as a precious raw material that does not necessarily belong to a book. Writing may unfold in space, through voice, sound, or presence. Participants work toward lecture-performance, exploring how a text can be spoken, structured, and shared as an experience. This expands writing beyond the page without diminishing its rigor or precision.
Finally, the pedagogical frame is intentionally non-judgmental. There are no feedback rounds evaluating texts, no discussions of whether a text is “good” or “bad.” Instead, the focus is on tools, contexts, and processes. Participants are given methods to work with their material and opportunities to encounter external eyes and ears through public readings and lecture-performances. Meaning, resonance, and reception emerge through experience rather than critique.
This masterclass does not aim to shape writing into predefined literary forms. It creates the conditions and provides tools and situations not only to deepen and refine your writing, but to open, expand, and reshape your entire text-based artistic practice.
Secondly, the process itself is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Writing is consistently paired with other artistic fields — movement, objects, drawing, mapping, photography, sound — not as illustration or inspiration alone, but as embodied writing methods. These practices create concrete situations from which language emerges. The text does not float abstractly; it is produced in relation to space, action, material, and experience.
The program also differs in how it understands the form of writing. Here, text is approached as a precious raw material that does not necessarily belong to a book. Writing may unfold in space, through voice, sound, or presence. Participants work toward lecture-performance, exploring how a text can be spoken, structured, and shared as an experience. This expands writing beyond the page without diminishing its rigor or precision.
Finally, the pedagogical frame is intentionally non-judgmental. There are no feedback rounds evaluating texts, no discussions of whether a text is “good” or “bad.” Instead, the focus is on tools, contexts, and processes. Participants are given methods to work with their material and opportunities to encounter external eyes and ears through public readings and lecture-performances. Meaning, resonance, and reception emerge through experience rather than critique.
This masterclass does not aim to shape writing into predefined literary forms. It creates the conditions and provides tools and situations not only to deepen and refine your writing, but to open, expand, and reshape your entire text-based artistic practice.
program details
In our Somatic Writing Masterclass, each week focuses on a specific aspect of writing, explored in dialogue with another artistic field, such as:
The program invites participants to learn through somatic experience, embodiment, and interdisciplinary experimentation. Writing remains at the center, while each week opens a new lens on how text can connect with other artistic languages, materials, and tools.
Throughout the training, we regularly read our texts aloud, integrate voice training, and work with microphone and sound to explore rhythm, presence, breath, resonance, and amplification. Text gradually transforms into a living and breathing lecture-performance piece.
Every month concludes with a public reading, where you meet external eyes and ears, test your material in front of an audience, and gain valuable feedback to refine both your writing and performative delivery.
By the end of the program, you will gain a comprehensive, 360° understanding of contemporary text-based art, significantly expand your writing methodologies, and refine your personal language, voice, and aesthetic.
- Text & Movement
- Text & Object
- Text & Drawing
- Text & Map
- Text & Photography
- Text & Sound
The program invites participants to learn through somatic experience, embodiment, and interdisciplinary experimentation. Writing remains at the center, while each week opens a new lens on how text can connect with other artistic languages, materials, and tools.
Throughout the training, we regularly read our texts aloud, integrate voice training, and work with microphone and sound to explore rhythm, presence, breath, resonance, and amplification. Text gradually transforms into a living and breathing lecture-performance piece.
Every month concludes with a public reading, where you meet external eyes and ears, test your material in front of an audience, and gain valuable feedback to refine both your writing and performative delivery.
By the end of the program, you will gain a comprehensive, 360° understanding of contemporary text-based art, significantly expand your writing methodologies, and refine your personal language, voice, and aesthetic.
WEEKLY STRUCTURE
24 hours / week
Somatic writing, experimental literature, expressive writing, and contemporary text practices. You will extend your texts into voice work and lecture-performance, with writing always at the center while drawing inspiration from interdisciplinary inputs.
Autonomous writing, editing, reflection, and preparation of your texts for the month-closing public readings.
- STUDIO — 12h/week
Somatic writing, experimental literature, expressive writing, and contemporary text practices. You will extend your texts into voice work and lecture-performance, with writing always at the center while drawing inspiration from interdisciplinary inputs.
- HOME WRITING — 12h/week
Autonomous writing, editing, reflection, and preparation of your texts for the month-closing public readings.
MONTHLY OVERVIEW
MONTH 1
Sept. 7 - Oct. 1, 2026
Week 1: Text & Movement
Week 2: Text & Object
Week 3: Text selection and editing, performance dramaturgy, embodied reading techniques, breathwork + public lecture-performance.
Week 4: Online grounding, journaling, integration
MONTH 2
October 5 - 30, 2026
Week 1: Text & Drawing
Week 2: Text & Map
Week 3: Text selection and editing, vocal presence, microphone technique, emotional mapping + public lecture-performance.
Week 4: Online grounding, journaling, integration
MONTH 3
November 2 - 27, 2026
Week 1: Text & Photography
Week 2: Text & Sound
Week 3: Text selection and editing, sound experimentation, spatial composition + lecture-performance.
Week 4: Online grounding, journaling, integration
Sept. 7 - Oct. 1, 2026
Week 1: Text & Movement
Week 2: Text & Object
Week 3: Text selection and editing, performance dramaturgy, embodied reading techniques, breathwork + public lecture-performance.
Week 4: Online grounding, journaling, integration
MONTH 2
October 5 - 30, 2026
Week 1: Text & Drawing
Week 2: Text & Map
Week 3: Text selection and editing, vocal presence, microphone technique, emotional mapping + public lecture-performance.
Week 4: Online grounding, journaling, integration
MONTH 3
November 2 - 27, 2026
Week 1: Text & Photography
Week 2: Text & Sound
Week 3: Text selection and editing, sound experimentation, spatial composition + lecture-performance.
Week 4: Online grounding, journaling, integration
TUITION FEE
3,000 EUR
Full 3-month training (accommodation not included)
Full 3-month training (accommodation not included)
FACILITATORS
Anna Ádám is an artist, choreographer, and cultural entrepreneur whose practice unfolds at the intersection of performance, text, pedagogy, and community-based art. After more than fifteen years of creating performances, immersive installations, and sensitive, transitional spaces across Europe, Africa, and South Asia, she founded the School of Disobedience as a living, evolving alternative to academic art education. Her work is grounded in somatic and experimental approaches, with a strong focus on small-scale, long-duration processes, artistic autonomy, and collective intelligence. In recent years, her practice has shifted increasingly toward writing, voice, and performative text, culminating in lecture-performances and text-based works. For Anna, teaching is cultivation: preparing the soil so singular practices can grow.
Ráhel Csizmadia is a psychologist, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of psychology, psychoanalysis, and artistic inquiry. She holds BA and MA degrees in Psychology and is currently a PhD candidate in Theoretical Psychoanalysis, researching the relationship between subjective experience and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her work brings analytical precision, ethical clarity, and deep attentiveness to inner processes, supporting participants in articulating complex experiences without reducing them to simplifications. She writes, reads, works with ceramics, and wanders—allowing thinking to unfold through movement and material.
Fruzsi Kovai is a visual artist, poet, and workshop facilitator whose practice is deeply rooted in the body, perception, and transformation. With a background spanning literature, film, illustration, design, and fine art, she works across disciplines while remaining anchored in somatic drawing and writing. Her research moves through anatomy, movement, non-Western knowledge systems, ecology, science fiction, and microscopic worlds, treating the body as both subject and method. Her pedagogy invites slow attention, embodied observation, and long-form engagement with text as a living, changing organism.
Ráhel Csizmadia is a psychologist, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of psychology, psychoanalysis, and artistic inquiry. She holds BA and MA degrees in Psychology and is currently a PhD candidate in Theoretical Psychoanalysis, researching the relationship between subjective experience and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her work brings analytical precision, ethical clarity, and deep attentiveness to inner processes, supporting participants in articulating complex experiences without reducing them to simplifications. She writes, reads, works with ceramics, and wanders—allowing thinking to unfold through movement and material.
Fruzsi Kovai is a visual artist, poet, and workshop facilitator whose practice is deeply rooted in the body, perception, and transformation. With a background spanning literature, film, illustration, design, and fine art, she works across disciplines while remaining anchored in somatic drawing and writing. Her research moves through anatomy, movement, non-Western knowledge systems, ecology, science fiction, and microscopic worlds, treating the body as both subject and method. Her pedagogy invites slow attention, embodied observation, and long-form engagement with text as a living, changing organism.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the Somatic Writing Masterclass, participants will:
• Develop an embodied writing practice
Understand writing not only as a cognitive process but as a somatic, intuitive, and sensory experience rooted in the body.
• Expand their interdisciplinary vocabulary
Explore how movement, objects, images, maps, sound, and space can stimulate new textual forms, structures, and aesthetics.
• Refine their personal writing language and artistic voice
Strengthen clarity, coherence, and originality in their creative expression, discovering what makes their writing truly unique.
• Gain confidence in reading and voicing their texts
Learn techniques for vocal presence, rhythm, breath, projection, and emotional delivery, preparing for public readings and lecture-performances.
• Transform text into performance
Acquire practical tools for adapting written material into performative formats—lecture-performance, spoken word, hybrid readings, and text-based actions.
• Deepen their editorial and critical skills
Practice selecting, revising, and shaping texts for performance, publication, or further development.
• Understand contemporary text-based art in a 360° framework
Gain insight into current experimental literature, somatic writing practices, sound poetry, visual text, and performative writing methodologies.
• Strengthen creative discipline and sustainable writing habits
Build a consistent weekly writing routine supported by somatic grounding, reflection, and embodied presence.
• Learn to generate material intuitively and abundantly
Overcome perfectionism and blocks, developing trust in creative flow and intuitive writing processes.
• Connect with an international creative community
Engage in dialogue, exchange, and feedback with peers from diverse artistic backgrounds, enriching artistic perspectives and networks.
• Leave with a portfolio of new work
Through weekly experiments and three public readings, participants will accumulate developed texts, voice recordings, conceptual drafts, and performance-ready material.
• Gain clarity on future directions
Identify artistic strengths, interests, and next steps to continue evolving as a writer, performer, or interdisciplinary creator.
• Develop an embodied writing practice
Understand writing not only as a cognitive process but as a somatic, intuitive, and sensory experience rooted in the body.
• Expand their interdisciplinary vocabulary
Explore how movement, objects, images, maps, sound, and space can stimulate new textual forms, structures, and aesthetics.
• Refine their personal writing language and artistic voice
Strengthen clarity, coherence, and originality in their creative expression, discovering what makes their writing truly unique.
• Gain confidence in reading and voicing their texts
Learn techniques for vocal presence, rhythm, breath, projection, and emotional delivery, preparing for public readings and lecture-performances.
• Transform text into performance
Acquire practical tools for adapting written material into performative formats—lecture-performance, spoken word, hybrid readings, and text-based actions.
• Deepen their editorial and critical skills
Practice selecting, revising, and shaping texts for performance, publication, or further development.
• Understand contemporary text-based art in a 360° framework
Gain insight into current experimental literature, somatic writing practices, sound poetry, visual text, and performative writing methodologies.
• Strengthen creative discipline and sustainable writing habits
Build a consistent weekly writing routine supported by somatic grounding, reflection, and embodied presence.
• Learn to generate material intuitively and abundantly
Overcome perfectionism and blocks, developing trust in creative flow and intuitive writing processes.
• Connect with an international creative community
Engage in dialogue, exchange, and feedback with peers from diverse artistic backgrounds, enriching artistic perspectives and networks.
• Leave with a portfolio of new work
Through weekly experiments and three public readings, participants will accumulate developed texts, voice recordings, conceptual drafts, and performance-ready material.
• Gain clarity on future directions
Identify artistic strengths, interests, and next steps to continue evolving as a writer, performer, or interdisciplinary creator.
Methodology
The Somatic Writing Masterclass is grounded in writing as a living, embodied practice.
Writing remains at the center of the program, while the body, the voice, perception, and other artistic fields are engaged as catalysts — not as distractions, and never as substitutes for the text.
Throughout the three months, participants work with:
Writing is approached as a process rather than a product, as a practice of listening, attention, and transformation. We work beyond fixed genres, linear narration, and predefined forms, allowing language to emerge through rhythm, repetition, fragmentation, and silence.
The program invites participants to develop a personal writing methodology, refine their language and aesthetic, and explore how a text can move from the page to the voice — unfolding as a lecture-performance.
It is a professional, experimental, and rigorous framework for those who wish to deepen their relationship with writing, voice, and contemporary text-based practices.
Writing remains at the center of the program, while the body, the voice, perception, and other artistic fields are engaged as catalysts — not as distractions, and never as substitutes for the text.
Throughout the three months, participants work with:
- Somatic writing
- Sensory writing
- Experimental and contemporary writing practices
- Automatic and intuitive writing
- Expressive and process-based writing
- Embodied approaches to language
- Voice-based and performative writing
- Text-based artistic research
- Hybrid and interdisciplinary writing practices
Writing is approached as a process rather than a product, as a practice of listening, attention, and transformation. We work beyond fixed genres, linear narration, and predefined forms, allowing language to emerge through rhythm, repetition, fragmentation, and silence.
The program invites participants to develop a personal writing methodology, refine their language and aesthetic, and explore how a text can move from the page to the voice — unfolding as a lecture-performance.
It is a professional, experimental, and rigorous framework for those who wish to deepen their relationship with writing, voice, and contemporary text-based practices.
location
The masterclass takes place in Budapest, in our artistic home — a quiet house with a garden that serves as the program’s base. Here you have space to write, breathe, rest, and immerse yourself in the daily rhythm of somatic practice. But the work also extends beyond the studio: as part of our drifting and floating methodology, we bring participants into different spaces, places, and venues across the city. These shifting environments — museums, parks, forest, public spaces, river bank — become catalysts for new perspectives and unexpected writing impulses. Your texts evolve not only from within your body but also through the landscapes, atmospheres, and contexts that surround you.
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