Supporting artists
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic particularly threatens the future of artists, creators and cultural operators, who were already vulnerable, and are now severely impacted both mentally and financially by the enforcement of social distancing measures and the consequent postponements, cancellations or closures of events.
As a response to this situation, Gray Box will focus this year even more on inter-professional solidarity and support artists, dancers and performers as much as possible, for example with a wide range of free of charge trainings, workshops, group meetings, one-on-one coaching sessions and gatherings.
Discover our Free Thematic Movement Research Lab program, join one of our sessions, meet other artists, learn and unlearn at the same time, move, dance, groove and create together! All of our labs are trans-disciplinary, and each of them is situated on the intersection of performance and social sciences (ecology, anthropology, sociology, psychology...).
As a response to this situation, Gray Box will focus this year even more on inter-professional solidarity and support artists, dancers and performers as much as possible, for example with a wide range of free of charge trainings, workshops, group meetings, one-on-one coaching sessions and gatherings.
Discover our Free Thematic Movement Research Lab program, join one of our sessions, meet other artists, learn and unlearn at the same time, move, dance, groove and create together! All of our labs are trans-disciplinary, and each of them is situated on the intersection of performance and social sciences (ecology, anthropology, sociology, psychology...).
Thematic Movement Research Lab
Accentuate your uniqueness as a performance maker! Develop originality and out-of-the-box thinking, create your own choreographic voice and personal aesthetic! Foster your creativity, critical thinking and innovation capabilities! Through an experimental and a trans-disciplinary approach, our "Thematic Movement Research Laboratory" program is helping you to push yourself out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations.
The program is composed of a series of independent thematic labs: "Impossible desires", "Fear and the Unknown", "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA", "Who is the boss?", "CLIMATA" and "The Sacred Ritual". At the beginning of each lab, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, participants will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises, performance scores and improvisation tasks, participants will be guided to explore various approaches, make movement research, elaborate thematic performances, solo and group choreographies. With embracing multiple media, participants will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
The program is composed of a series of independent thematic labs: "Impossible desires", "Fear and the Unknown", "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA", "Who is the boss?", "CLIMATA" and "The Sacred Ritual". At the beginning of each lab, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, participants will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises, performance scores and improvisation tasks, participants will be guided to explore various approaches, make movement research, elaborate thematic performances, solo and group choreographies. With embracing multiple media, participants will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
During the labs, activities will involve
Performance, dance, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation; thematic movement research; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary, fiction, critics...) making exercises and creative tasks in other medium, searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
Participants's benefits
- Accentuate your uniqueness
- Find your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic
- Foster your creativity
- Liberate yourself from your fears, go beyond your limits and push yourself out of your comfort zone
- Learn about performance art and social sciences from both a theoretical and practice oriented perspective
- Develop critical thinking
Schedule
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JUNE 2021
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Participation & Topics
Our "Thematic Movement Research Laboratory" program is composed of different labs.
Attendees can register independently for each of them.
Attendees can register independently for each of them.
"Impossible desires"Dates: 6-7 March 2021
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"Fear and the Unknown"Dates: 8-9-10 March 2021
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"Who is the boss?"Dates: 15-16 May 2021
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"The Sacred Ritual"Dates: 22-23 May 2021
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"CLIMATA"Dates: 30 May 2021
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"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA"Dates: 12-13 June 2021
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