school founder & program creator

​The School of Disobedience was dreamed up and created by Anna Ádám (Hungary).
​It is administrated, produced, and organized in collaboration with the company Gray Box (France).

2023-2024 unlearning facilitators

  • Anna Ádám (Hungary):
"Body politics" / Experimentation
"The sketchbook project" / Research
"Wildflowers Festival: organizing, curating & programming a community festival" / Field work
"Personal Mythologies: an immersive creative writing experience" / Creative Writing
"sorry not sorry" (2018) & "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" (2022) /  Repertoire
“Character building, script writing, directing, performing, and live streaming a 3-days-long reality show on romantic, adventure, food, dating, and fashion” / The Reality Show
'Unreason & Madness: I. The social and cultural construction of madness II. Pathologization, social exclusion, activism III. The unknown and the unexpected" / Debate
  • Marion Binois (France):
"Monster: as a liberation of the submerged side of the iceberg, that is hidden, unaccepted, uncontrolled" / Choreographic creation​ & Performance
  • Luana Naquin (France):
​"Afro fusion dance styles: Ndombolo (Congo), Azonto (Ghana), Afro House (Angola), Amapiano (South Africa), Naija Street Styles (Nigeria)" / Technique
  • Iris Medeiros (Brazil):
"Ways and meanings of the touch: a tool for empowerment, well-being, and knowledge" / Theory
  • Judit Kis (Hungary):
"The power of communal gardening and cooking to inspire, heal, and create communities" / Community
  • Penelope Morout (Greece-France):
​"Sculpting Body-Images: improvisation, playground, release" / Practice
  • Marion Filippi (France):
​"Multi sensorial journey: Breathing techniques, Meditation, Guided Hypnosis, Psychomagic act, Collective singing" / Well-being
  • Maxime Smeets (The Netherlands / China / Indonesia):
​"Tame the Dragon: Introduction to Qi-gong & Kung Fu" / Well-being
  • Priiya Prethora (India):
​"Facing Traces: Decolonial and emancipatory movement practice based on Kalaripayattu and performance creation with a sound archive on history, memory and identity" / Project: Choreographic creation​ & Performance
  • Lu Lin (China):
"Reading My Panties: stories, relations, politics, dogmas, and taboos related to cultural differences" / Practice
  • Masha Kardash (Ukraine):
​"Self-exoticism and post-socialist femininity: demystifying the ‘exotic’ body in Eastern Europe" / Theory
  • Luca Borsos (Hungary):
"Underground Budapest: How to occupy public spaces - reinventing our ways to intervene" / Community
  • Adriatica Body Art (Brazil / Germany):
​"Moon Goddess Dance & Dragonbreath with Body painting: introduction to Fusion Bellydance and Waacking" / Technique
  • Sara Mychkine (France / Tunisia):
"I. Decanonizing modern art: from painting to performance. II. Birthing new space-times outside of the box" / Theory
  • Yuta Ishikawa (Japan):
"Body Weather: Introduction to Shiatsu & Budo" / Well-being
  • Sarah Diep (France):
"Sound poetry: reclaim your own narrative / dj mixing, field recording and voices" / Practice
  • Ashley Vu (France / Vietnam):
​"In the “boat-people” lineage: (Im)migration movement, uprooting and search for identity" / Choreographic creation​ & Performance
  • Tekla Gedeon (Hungary):
​"The giant who sunk in soil: experiencing with lichen colonies of the Kerepesi Cemetery & making a collective woven tapestry" / Community
  • Zsuzsa Bakonyi (Hungary):
"Enjoy your flow toys: juggling, poi & staff spinning, hula hooping" / Technique

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

program coordinators

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Created as a collective in 2014 in Berlin, and founded as a company in 2018 in Paris, Gray Box’s work takes interest in going beyond the boundaries between performance art and social sciences. Based on transdisciplinary research and collective experimentation, our company creates, curates and produces, in all horizontality, a body of work with a strong political, ecological and social dimension. We consider the moving body together with its immaterial aspects - such as perception, empathy, emotions, intuitions - as a political tool to forge emancipated communities, create social connections and human interactions. By exploring the ideological, cultural, political and historical parameters that shape our taste, what is meant by “popular culture” and “canonized culture”, by “good taste” and “bad taste”, “high culture” and “low culture”, Gray Box is interested in how anti-canonical and anti-contemporary aesthetics can be used as a means of opposition to class hierarchies, and how they can become a tool in the struggle against normative behaviors and dominant ideologies. Faced with an overproduction of artistic proposals, Gray Box believes in a new economy of the performing arts: less fast, more local, more sustainable and more ethical, with the hope to stop geographical divisions, and to respond to the evolution of social and environmental issues of our time. By deciding to perform mainly in alternative, remote, small, lesser-known and outlying places, the company wishes to, on one hand, address a large and diverse audience and, on the other hand, to free itself from the obsession with career, fame, glory, this race for novelty and visibility generates. Gray Box tries to create and co-create its projects with and for the inhabitants, the users and the local associative fabric in order to create bridges between those who have access to art and those who do not. We believe that art can be used as a tool for social justice, that art can make the difference. ​In the past years Gray Box has performed across Europe (FR, D, HU, SB, HR, AT...), in major cities and small towns alike, in formal and informal, indoor and outdoor spaces. We have been in-residence with many theaters and at universities (FR, HU, SB, AM, AT...), and held workshops for both professionals and non-professionals, adults, teens and children, in art spaces, conservatories, festivals, camps and nightclubs.
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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)