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Things we will never answer:

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  • Open-mindedness
    We're not afraid of meeting new artists, we're not afraid of working with people we don't know, who come from a different country, who have a different cultural and ideological background, who speak a different artistic language. We take care of that! The more different you are, the more we like you! Get in touch with us!
  • Trust
    We don't just pretend to be "risk-takers", we are!  Even if we don't know each other, let's call, let's meet!
  • Curiosity
    Looking for out-of-the-box aesthetics, original ideas, marginal art forms and non-conventional proposals is not just a way of speaking, it is not just about marketing. We are really looking for anti-canonical proposals, alternative and critical thinkers who challenge mainstream contemporary trends and aesthetics. Do you have an unusual project in mind? Do you want to create something that challenges artistic conventions and traditional canons, that confronts norms and standards of beauty? Do you want to go against the rules and systems you have been socialised into? Take the path of the unknown, the non-conformist, the "other", the unfamiliar, the uncanny? Contact us, we want to hear about it!

Things we can never imagine:

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  • Respect
    Making art, creating, imagining, thinking is a job, and artists need to be paid. No discussion.
    A suggestion for artists: unpaid offers are not "opportunities". Making people work for free is called abuse and exploitation. Doing it in the name of art is shameful. A suggestion for structures that have great ideas but no budget to pay artists: don't do the project, get the money first.
  • Equality, parity
    Regardless of gender, age, experience or education, whether you are a dancer, musician, technician, choreographer or cleaner, Gray Box pays everyone equally. Every team member receives the same hourly rate.
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This is how we will never work:

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  • Personal development
    The working process is framed by the choreographer, but dancers and performers are encouraged to participate in some way in the creative process. The role of the choreographer is both to ensure that the framework is respected and to provide a safe, non-judgmental space in which the artists can express themselves most honestly, while receiving support, knowledge and tools to build confidence, highlight uniqueness, develop originality and out-of-the-box thinking.
  • Assertion
    The creatives, choreographers, makers, performers, dancers, visual artists, musicians, designers we work with are asked not to look for what looks good, what's nice, what the audience will like, how the professionals will react, what the others will think, but to do what they personally feel is coherent, justified and meaningful. They are constantly encouraged to look for the risky, the unusual, the unknown, the strange, the "uncanny". Do not discard their "strange" ideas, but try them out one by one. To break barriers, to break rules.
  • Care
    Let's care about each other. Let's keep in touch. Let's answer emails. Let's interact and communicate, let's share knowledge, tools, experiences and diverse co-creation and collaboration practices. Let's meet, let's gather, let's learn and teach each other, let's debate, let's dream. Let's be human.

How we will never speak:

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  • Generosity
    Get rid of your class, your position, your social status! Be humble, simple and generous. Speak so that everyone can understand. Stop trying to prove yourself to the art world, to be validated by an institution, stop using bullshit terminology, stop saying empty words, stop using references just because it is "required". Avoid the elite, provide an inclusive experience for all of us.
  • Courage
    Stop being manipulated by the market, stop creating for open calls, stop adapting your art, stop reacting to trends. Instead, challenge the traditional hierarchy of genres and techniques, question normative curatorial discourses, defy dominant cultural values and ideologies. Be critical of the academy and of those cultural actors and institutions that hold themselves out as the opinion leaders of our aesthetic values and the standard-bearers of our collective cultural heritage. Resist, unlearn, revolt!

Cool List:

Authentic, sincere, generous, committed and original initiatives to hear about. Meaningful and unconventional structures to check out:
  • The Artivist LAB (space)
The Artivist LAB is a gallery space that gives voice to political art, Artivism, media, and actual social issues.
  • FREIRAUM - TANZPAKT (space)
A collaborative conception and work space for the arts , is conceived as an “Artist Run Space”: theFREIRAUM, initiated and operated by the Ben J. Riepe Company, is located at Engelbertstraße 13 and is available to artists and their cooperation partners from administration, project management, dramaturgy or technology as well as scientists and advanced students with interfaces to the arts for work stays free of charge to disposal.
  • Journal for Social Vision (online magazine)
We publish a series of texts that consider a different approach to the concept of “environment” – research, poetry, visual essays, and discussions.
  • KEM SCHOOL (collective)
Feminist and queer sound, performance, choreography, critical intimacy and collectivity. Based in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Les Cousines (collective)
​A network of visual artists committed to design spaces for.collectively create and exchange with the public.
  • mais uno +1 (collective)
Mais uno +1 is a curatorial, project, and research collective that acts in search of the transformative power of art through the creation of incremental relationships/ecosystems between artists, communities, and territories.
  • School of Disobedience (community project)
School of Disobedience is an experimental, radical and non-canonical Performance+Art School, a Feminist Fight Club for women empowerment, and a Healing Centre from modern life shits.
  • Somme Sensible collective (collective)
The Somme Sensible collective is a laboratory for creating resonant spaces. Following a cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach, in a cross between workshops and participatory exercises, participants build experiences of responsiveness, called "activations". It’s about exploring new mental ecologies through developing different attentional and relational methods. How can we imagine different ways of co-existing? What might alternative sociabilities, based on caring for and attending to others, be like? In what way might the quest for symbiosis make us inhabit the world differently?
ANY Suggestion for our cool list?
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  • Home
  • GRAY BOX
    • Manifesto
    • People
    • CV
    • Contact
  • Performance
    • Black Box >
      • Elrabotam a szived
      • Right for Fight
      • sorry not sorry: Second book
      • Crisis before Crisis
      • MÖBIUS
      • Who is the boss?
      • UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA
      • CLASH
      • Secret Garden
      • sorry not sorry: First book
      • Picnic in Eden
      • No hook-ups only serious
    • White Cube >
      • Dreams are my reality
      • Air is in the Love
      • Heavenly Foreplay: Song of Senses II.
      • Dirty Dancing Girl Power II.
      • Confessions: Coming OUT!
      • Heavenly Foreplay: Song of Senses
      • Passion. Fan behaviour. Love.
      • Over 18
      • Love, Tenderness
      • Landscape, Action!
      • Dirty Dancing Girl Power
      • Replay! Remix! Remake!
      • The First Kiss
      • Feminine-Masculine
      • Try On/Out!
      • Memory-Starters
      • The Fitting Project
    • Outdoor >
      • ​The Master and Margarita
      • Israel Us!
      • Do you remember when...?
    • Catwalk
  • Education
    • Movement, Dance, and Creative Writing for Theater Professionals
    • Dance Performance Studies
    • Études de Danse et Pratiques Performatives
  • Platform