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Thematic ​Movement Research Laboratory

PERFORMANCE, DANCE, ​SOCIAL SCIENCES
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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...).

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. 

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

MARCH 2021

MAY 2021

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Impossible desires
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Impossible desires
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Fear and the Unknown
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Fear and the Unknown
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UTOPIA-DYSTOPIA
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UTOPIA-DYSTOPIA
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Who is the boss?
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Who is the boss?
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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.

"Impossible desires"

Dates: 6-7 March 2021
​​Venue: LE DANSARIUM (FR)

During this workshop, we will explore how we live our desire through our bodies, what kind of effect our socio-cultural, moral and religious heritage have on our desires. Some of the questions we will ask include: What is desire? How might our culture change the way we desire others? What does it mean the satisfy or abandon our desire?
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"Fear and the Unknown"

Dates: 8-9-10 March 2021
​​Venue: LE DANSARIUM (FR)

In today's hyper-stimulated society, more people than ever are suffering from stress, fear, anxiety and panic. In this workshop, you will gain an introduction to the understanding of fear in all of its manifestations. We will focus on the identification of everyday anxiety and panic, their probable causes and understandings.
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"Who is the boss?"

Dates: 15-16 May 2021
​​Venue: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (HU)

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?
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"The Sacred Ritual"

Dates: 22-23 May 2021
​Venue: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (HU)

We focus on contemporary performing art practices linked to ceremonies, shamanic rites, spiritual beliefs, healing. We explore how rituals embody and activate myths through dramatic and choreographic transformative devices, and how contemporary artists appropriate and traverse traditional boundaries between performance art, ancient rites, shamanic action, transcendental experiences, and myths.
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"CLIMATA"

Dates: 30 May 2021
​​Venue: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (HU)

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.
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"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA"

Dates: 12-13 June 2021
​​Venue: A4 (SK)

This workshop aims to give a gender sensitive response to both feminist and ecological concerns. Through the exploration of the parallels between women’s history and wisdom, systems thinking and cyclical time, embodiment and materiality of power, participants will investigate the empirical, conceptual, epistemological, spiritual, material, and political frameworks which reveal a hierarchical reality that conflates women and nature, and devalues both.
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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