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).
2025-2026 staff
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Anna Ádám + External facilitators:
WRITING STUDIES
Anna Ádám + External facilitators:
ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER
Mira Magyar
DIRECTOR
Anna Ádám
Anna Ádám + External facilitators:
- Module 1: Luca Borsos (performer and maker)
- Module 2: Sándor Petrovics (dancer and maker)
- Module 3: Ráhel Csizmadia (psychologist and researcher)
- Module 4: Ráhel Csizmadia (psychologist and researcher) and Anna Makay (musician)
- Module 5: Rebeka Petra Kiss (dancer)
WRITING STUDIES
Anna Ádám + External facilitators:
- Ráhel Csizmadia (psychologist and researcher)
- Fruzsi Kovai (artist)
ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER
Mira Magyar
DIRECTOR
Anna Ádám
past facilitators
- Adriatica Body Art (Brazil / Germany), 2023
- Marion Binois (France), 2023
- Luca Borsos (Hungary), 2022, 2023, 2025
- Enikő Katalin Eged (Hungary), 2022
- Marion Filippi (France), 2023
- Júlia Gaál (Hungary), 2023, 2024, 2025
- Flóra Gadó (Hungary), 2015
- Judit Gellér (Hungary)2015, 2019
- Masha Kardash (Ukraine), 2023
- Zsófia Kergyó (Hungary), 2023
- Judit Kis (Hungary), 2023
- Katalin Kis (Hungary), 2015, 2016
- Rebeka Petra Kiss (Hungary), 2023, 2024, 2025
- Roland Korponovics (Hungary), 2021
- Lu Lin (China), 2023
- dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Hungary), 2021
- Anna Makay (Hungary), 2021, 2025
- Iris Medeiros (Brazil), 2023
- Eva Mora (Spain), 2023
- Penelope Morout (Greece-France), 2023
- Luana Naquin (France), 2023
- Sally O'Neill (Sweden), 2014
- Réka Pável (Hungary), 2022
- Tímea Piróth (Hungary), 2016, 2018
- Viktoria Popovics (Hungary), 2015
- Priiya Prethora (India), 2023
- Kemelo Sehlapelo (South Africa), 2022
- Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia), 2023
- Eden Tinto Collins (France), 2021
- Anna Zsigó (Hungary): 2015, 2016
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
Nagy Lili Panna (From 2025)
Galsi Boglárka (From 2024)
Boglárka Zellei (2021-2024)
Myriam Reeve (2021, Hungary)
Lea Fiterman (2021, France)
Sandhya Menon (2021, India)
Galsi Boglárka (From 2024)
Boglárka Zellei (2021-2024)
Myriam Reeve (2021, Hungary)
Lea Fiterman (2021, France)
Sandhya Menon (2021, India)