SCHOOL OF DISOBEDIENCE
school founder & program creator
The School of Disobedience was dreamed up and created by Anna Ádám (Hungary). It is administrated, produced, and managed by the company Gray Box (France).
2023-2024 unlearning facilitators
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): "Body politics: Research, Experimentation", "Personal project", "Empowerment & Leadership"
- Marion Binois (France): "Nightmare: Choreography & Mask making"
- Luana Naquin (France): "Afro fusion"
- Iris Medeiros (Brazil): "Anatomy of Touch: Theory & Twerk"
- Judit Kis (Hungary): "Community & Food"
- Penelope Morout (Greece-France): "Sculpting Body-Images: Improvisation, Creation, Composition"
- Marion Filippi (France): "Hypnosis & Psychomagic act: Breathing techniques, Yoga, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic Act, Collective Singing"
- Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia): "Qi-gong - Thai Chi - Kung Fu"
- Priiya Prethora (India): "Kalaripayattu & History, memory, identity: Martial Arts & Choreography"
- Lu Lin (China): "Reading My Panties: Zine making"
- Masha Kardash (Ukraine): "The exotic body: Theory"
- Luca Borsos (Hungary): "Underground Budapest: Public space performance"
- Adriatica Body Art (Brazil / Germany): "Moon Goddess & Body painting: Moongoddess method, Dragonbreath, Fusion Bellydance, Waacking"
- Sara Mychkine (France / Tunisia): "Decanonizing modern art: Theory"
- Sarah Diep (France): "Sound poetry: DJ, mixing, field recording and voice training"
- Ashley Vu (France / Vietnam): "Roots and routes: migration stories: Dance & Choreography"
- Tekla Gedeon (Hungary): "Learning from lichens: Weaving"
- Zsuzsa Bakonyi (Hungary): "Flow toys: juggling, poi & staff spinning, hula hooping"
2022-2023 unlearning facilitators
- Anna Ádám ("Fight Club", "Sober Techno", "Thinking in Images", "Research", "Creation")
- Luca Borsos ("Women's Literary Salon: Open Stage")
- Enikő Katalin Eged ("Women's T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio")
- Júlia Gaál ("Replay! Remix! Remake!" + "The Decision / Indecisiveness")
- Zsófia Kergyó ("Feminist Hammam")
- Judit Kis ("Philosophy & Hammam")
- Rebeka Petra Kiss ("Yoga-Techno-Yoga Techno" + "Guilt Training")
- Eva Mora ("Dirty Dancing")
- Réka Pável ("Women's Ero.tic Writing Circle")
- Kemelo Sehlapelo ("Zulu Tribal Dance & Battle culture")
past unlearning facilitators
- Flóra Gadó (Curator, Aesthete), 2015
- Judit Gellér (Curator), 2015, 2019
- Judit Kis (Healing, Care), 2021
- Katalin Kis (Gender studies Researcher), 2015, 2016
- Roland Korponovics (Visual Arts, Digital Art, Installation), 2021
- dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Dancer, Lecturer), 2021
- Anna Makay (Electronic music, Dj, Soundscapes), 2021
- Sally O'Neill (Dancer-Maker, Dramatist ), 2014
- Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Politics, Ecology), 2021
- Tímea Piróth (Painter, Multidisciplinary artist), 2016, 2018
- Viktoria Popovics (Curator, Art historian), 2015
- Eden Tinto Collins (Artist Transmedia), 2021
- Anna Zsigó (Dramatist), 2015, 2016
- ZeroPlus Dance Studio (Contemporary dance, Composition, Choreography), 2021
- Alternative Women's Day (Festival making, Curating, Programming...), 2021
company
The School of Disobedience serves as the educational arm of the company Gray Box.
Established as a collective in Berlin in 2014 and subsequently incorporated as a company in Paris in 2018, Gray Box operates at the intersection of performance art and social sciences. Grounded in transdisciplinary research and collaborative experimentation, our company develops, curates, and produces a diverse body of work with a pronounced political, ecological, and social emphasis. We view the moving body, alongside its intangible aspects such as perception, empathy, emotions, and intuitions, as a potent political instrument for fostering emancipated communities, forging social connections, and facilitating human interactions.
Delving into the ideological, cultural, political, and historical frameworks that shape societal norms and perceptions, Gray Box explores the concepts of 'popular culture' and 'canonized culture,' 'good taste' and 'bad taste,' 'high culture' and 'low culture.' We are particularly interested in how anti-canonical and anti-contemporary aesthetics can serve as vehicles for challenging class hierarchies and combating normative behaviors and dominant ideologies.
In response to the overwhelming volume of artistic offerings, Gray Box advocates for a new economy of the performing arts—one that prioritizes sustainability, ethics, and locality over speed and novelty. By predominantly staging performances in alternative, remote, and lesser-known locales, we aim to reach diverse audiences while liberating ourselves from the pursuit of fame and acclaim often associated with mainstream artistic endeavors.
Our company endeavors to collaborate closely with local communities, engaging residents and users in the creative process to foster connections between those with access to art and those without. We firmly believe in the transformative power of art as a catalyst for social justice and positive change. Over the years, Gray Box has conducted performances and workshops throughout Europe, spanning major urban centers to remote villages, formal theaters to informal outdoor spaces, and collaborating with diverse audiences ranging from professionals to amateurs, adults to children, in a variety of settings including art spaces, conservatories, festivals, camps, and nightclubs.
www.grayboxprojects.com
Instagram.com/grayboxprojects
Facebook.com/grayboxprojects
Established as a collective in Berlin in 2014 and subsequently incorporated as a company in Paris in 2018, Gray Box operates at the intersection of performance art and social sciences. Grounded in transdisciplinary research and collaborative experimentation, our company develops, curates, and produces a diverse body of work with a pronounced political, ecological, and social emphasis. We view the moving body, alongside its intangible aspects such as perception, empathy, emotions, and intuitions, as a potent political instrument for fostering emancipated communities, forging social connections, and facilitating human interactions.
Delving into the ideological, cultural, political, and historical frameworks that shape societal norms and perceptions, Gray Box explores the concepts of 'popular culture' and 'canonized culture,' 'good taste' and 'bad taste,' 'high culture' and 'low culture.' We are particularly interested in how anti-canonical and anti-contemporary aesthetics can serve as vehicles for challenging class hierarchies and combating normative behaviors and dominant ideologies.
In response to the overwhelming volume of artistic offerings, Gray Box advocates for a new economy of the performing arts—one that prioritizes sustainability, ethics, and locality over speed and novelty. By predominantly staging performances in alternative, remote, and lesser-known locales, we aim to reach diverse audiences while liberating ourselves from the pursuit of fame and acclaim often associated with mainstream artistic endeavors.
Our company endeavors to collaborate closely with local communities, engaging residents and users in the creative process to foster connections between those with access to art and those without. We firmly believe in the transformative power of art as a catalyst for social justice and positive change. Over the years, Gray Box has conducted performances and workshops throughout Europe, spanning major urban centers to remote villages, formal theaters to informal outdoor spaces, and collaborating with diverse audiences ranging from professionals to amateurs, adults to children, in a variety of settings including art spaces, conservatories, festivals, camps, and nightclubs.
www.grayboxprojects.com
Instagram.com/grayboxprojects
Facebook.com/grayboxprojects
documentation
Boglárka Zellei (2021 Fall intensive Hungary)
Myriam Reeve (2021 Summer Camps)
Lea Fiterman (2021 Fall intensive France)
Sandhya Menon (The Art Farm, Goa, India)
Myriam Reeve (2021 Summer Camps)
Lea Fiterman (2021 Fall intensive France)
Sandhya Menon (The Art Farm, Goa, India)