"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA​"

Dates: 20-21 March 2021 ​
Venue: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (Budapest, HU) ​
Application deadline: 10 March
Keywords: performance, dance, climate change, nature, environment, ecosystem

research

Through the exploration of nature and environment, power and society, speculative fiction and eco-criticism, we will dress the limits and possibilities of how performing arts are able to respond and to challenge the anthropocentric conundrum. We examine our personal and professional engagements with nature, rethink and redefine the concept of human, non-human, animal, and vegetal. During this class, we place equal weight on critical theory and artistic creation, develop ideas and fluency. We will make movement research and create performances, solo and group choreographies about our relationship with nature, the protection of ecosystems and the psychosocial consequences of climate change, including scepticisme, denial, critical rejection, anxiety, indifference and activism.

during the classes, activities will involve

Performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation and movement; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; movement research ; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...) making exercises and creative tasks in different medium (drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art...), searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.

final public showing

Following the last class, participants will present their works in the frame of a series of outdoor totally free of charge public space showings (performances, exhibitions, ceremonies, rituals...).