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).
2024-2025 unlearning facilitators
- Anna Ádám (Hungary): Performance, Multidisciplinary Arts, Research & Experimentation
- Júlia Gaál (Hungary): Repertoire, Dance, Improvisation
- Rebeka Petra Kiss (Hungary): Repertoire, Dance, Improvisation
past unlearning facilitators
- Adriatica Body Art (Brazil / Germany): "Moon Goddess & Body painting: Moongoddess method, Dragonbreath, Fusion Bellydance, Waacking", 2023
- Marion Binois (France): "Nightmare: Choreography & Mask making", 2023
- Luca Borsos (Hungary): "Women's Literary Salon: Open Stage", 2022, "Underground Budapest: Public space performance", 2023
- Enikő Katalin Eged (Hungary): "Women's T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio", 2022
- Marion Filippi (France): "Hypnosis & Psychomagic act: Breathing techniques, Yoga, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic Act, Collective Singing", 2023
- Júlia Gaál (Hungary): "Replay! Remix! Remake!" + "The Decision / Indecisiveness", 2023
- Flóra Gadó (Hungary): Curator, Aesthete, 2015
- Judit Gellér (Hungary): Curator, 2015, 2019
- Masha Kardash (Ukraine): "The exotic body: Theory", 2023
- Zsófia Kergyó (Hungary): ("Feminist Hammam"), 2023
- Judit Kis (Hungary): "Healing Garden", 2021, "Community & Food", 2023
- Katalin Kis (Hungary): "Research", 2015, 2016
- Rebeka Petra Kiss (Hungary): "Yoga-Techno-Yoga Techno", "Guilt Training"), 2023
- Roland Korponovics (Hungary): Visual Arts, Digital Art, Installation, 2021
- Lu Lin (China): "Reading My Panties: Zine making", 2023
- dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Hungary): Dancer, Lecturer, 2021
- Anna Makay (Hungary): Electronic music, Dj, Soundscapes, 2021
- Iris Medeiros (Brazil): "Anatomy of Touch: Theory & Twerk", 2023
- Eva Mora (Spain): "Dirty Dancing", 2023
- Penelope Morout (Greece-France): "Sculpting Body-Images: Improvisation, Creation, Composition", 2023
- Luana Naquin (France): "Afro fusion", 2023
- Sally O'Neill (Sweden): (Dancer-Maker, Dramatist ), 2014
- Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Politics, Ecology), 2021
- Réka Pável (Hungary): "Women's Writing Circle", 2022
- Tímea Piróth (Hungary): Painter, Multidisciplinary artist, 2016, 2018
- Viktoria Popovics (Hungary): Curator, Art historian, 2015
- Priiya Prethora (India): "Kalaripayattu & History, memory, identity: Martial Arts & Choreography", 2023
- Kemelo Sehlapelo (South Africa): "Zulu Tribal Dance & Battle culture", 2022
- Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia): "Qi-gong - Thai Chi - Kung Fu", 2023
- Eden Tinto Collins (France): Artist Transmedia, 2021
- Anna Zsigó (Hungary): Dramatist, 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
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)