"WHO IS THE BOSS?"
Dates: 20-21 March 2021
Venue: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (Budapest, HU)
Application deadline: 5 March
Keywords: performance, dance, oppression, domination, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence
Venue: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (Budapest, HU)
Application deadline: 5 March
Keywords: performance, dance, oppression, domination, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence
research
Why are people so willing to humiliate people from other social groups? What are the factors responsible for psychological and physical aggression? What are those aspects of human nature which lead to social exclusion? What are the cognitive, affective and motivational components of intergroup brutality? How can we resist, protest and fight against domination and oppression? What are our tools and how can we use them?
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (movement research, performance, dance…) we will trace the history of different forms and levels of domination, including institutional, interpersonal, and unconscious, their similarities and differences. We will discuss the experience of living with alienation, whether it is due to race, sex, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religion or an intersection of these, the ways in which the theoretical texts we discovered relate to our personal experiences and to socio-political contexts, and we create in response concrete actions, performances and body-works.
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (movement research, performance, dance…) we will trace the history of different forms and levels of domination, including institutional, interpersonal, and unconscious, their similarities and differences. We will discuss the experience of living with alienation, whether it is due to race, sex, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religion or an intersection of these, the ways in which the theoretical texts we discovered relate to our personal experiences and to socio-political contexts, and we create in response concrete actions, performances and body-works.
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...).