INDIVIDUAL Seances

I view workshops as a primary artistic medium, where I blend performance, mise-en-scène, and non-formal pedagogy to create interactive and immersive individual Seances. These Seances serve as social and spatial contexts where new forms of aesthetics emerge through interactivity, participation, and collaboration. Thematic Seances invite participants to immerse themselves in a hybrid space, co-creating with me to deepen their experience.

During Seances, participants follow my instructions, partitions, and scripts, engaging in tasks that gradually involve them in a participatory performance as co-makers, co-performers, and spectators simultaneously. Rooted in collective creativity, Seances yield artistic outcomes such as installations, objects, photo series, or performances, which serve both as documentation and production of the experience.

Following the Seance, these art pieces often remain in the space, transforming it into an exhibition that can be visited and further contemplated by others.​

Photo - © Anna Ádám, 2018.

​The Sacred Ritual - Group seance

In this session, we delve into the realm of contemporary visual and performing art practices that intersect with ceremonies, shamanic rites, spiritual beliefs, and the complexities of human identity. Together, we explore the multifaceted connections between rituals and their roles in shaping personal identity, social cohesion, and political power.

Throughout our exploration, we investigate how rituals serve as transformative devices, embodying and activating myths through dramatic and choreographic means. We analyze how contemporary artists navigate and reinterpret traditional boundaries between performance art, ancient rites, shamanic practices, and transcendental experiences.

Our aim is to broaden our understanding of ritualistic practices, transcending the conventional definitions of the sacred, and delving into the immanence of collective creativity. Through shared experiences and collaborative engagement, we tap into the power of collective action, fostering a deeper connection to the transformative potential of artistic expression.

​The Bad Taste - one-on-one seance

During this personalized Seance, we delve into the theoretical and practical dimensions of "taste" within popular culture, interrogating the ideological, political, and historical factors that shape our perceptions, explore what is meant by designations such as canonical “high culture” and popular “low culture”, and who is empowered to make these distinctions.

Through a series of creative exercises, including the creation of a solo performance infused with imagery drawn from comics, advertisements, popular music, and video games, we explore the subversive potential of aesthetics traditionally deemed "bad," "vulgar," or "kitsch." By challenging hegemonic class, gender, and racial hierarchies, as well as normative behaviors and ideologies, we uncover how these aesthetic choices can serve as acts of resistance, disrupting established power structures and fostering alternative narratives of identity and expression.

​Body, Identity, Society​

In recent years, queerness has emerged as a prominent topic in contemporary performance and dance, often becoming a buzzword. However, many works addressing this theme tend to rely on postmodern theoretical frameworks and employ stereotypes in exaggerated and caricatural ways, such as cross-dressing, exaggerated gender-based movements, and clichéd body gestures.

Unfortunately, without a critical approach, queerness in these pieces often remains superficial, reduced to mere aesthetic expression rather than engaging deeply with the underlying issues. This creates a significant disconnection between the discourse surrounding these works and their actual content, which primarily consists of surface-level signs and appearances. Instead of deconstructing hierarchies and challenging societal norms, these performances inadvertently reinforce gender stereotypes and maintain asymmetries between the sexes.

​In this Seance, participants will develop a more thoughtful and critical approach to queerness in contemporary performance and dance, one that goes beyond surface-level representations to address the complexities of gender stereotypes and representation.

​Performing fashion

During this Seance, we fuse the realms of performing arts and fashion design, redefining the catwalk as a theatrical stage and thematic collections as conceptual art. This theory and practice-oriented session explores the performative, choreographic, and dramatic dimensions of fashion shows, alongside the expressive potential of garments themselves. Participants will experiment with silhouettes, materials, and narrative strategies, envisioning choreographed fashion performances that blur the lines between traditional runway shows and immersive theatrical experiences.