MU Theatre
2025.05.02-03-04.

FRIDAY, MAY 2

9:00 -10:00
stage
Food for the day
Workshop by Bernadett Jobbágy
Movement workshop and warm-up (somatic tuning)
Specific previous experience is not required
The workshop is open to all interested

10:15 - 13:30
café
The Somatic-academic
Conference presentations and discourse
Presenters:

• Thomas Körtvélyessy: Elaine Summers - moving between delineations, a legacy in formation
• Tamer Wajda: Embodied cognition and somatic experiences as/in artistic practice
• Paulina Ruiz Carballido (online): Somatic Co-Habiting: Co-Creations of Utopias and Hybrid Fictions on screendance
• Raffaele Rezzonico (online): Glances at disembodiment - misogynistic abstractions and vertical geometrizations
• Zrinka Šimičić: Embodiment and language

13:00 - 13:45
café
Kerekasztal 1 (HU)
* This program is in Hungarian language! *

• Szomatika, nyelviség és a fordítás lehetőségei és kérdései
• Résztvevők: Gál Eszter, Kálmán Ferenc, Kovács Dániel Attila, Thomas Körtvélyessy

15:00 - 17:45
stage
Spiralling through
Workshop by Zrinka Šimičić

Processes of division, differentiation, transformation in embodied exploration and paper design, aka contemporary "guzsalyas"

• Specific previous experience is not required
• The workshop is open to all interested

18:30 - 21:00
stage
MKE_KDP_professional roundtable 4
Filmclub

• Screening of short choreographic films
• Discussion and dialogue
• Editing as choreography - editing as visceral effect

SATURDAY, MAY 3

10:00 - 12:00
café
Skin is a Window
Workshop by Snjezana Premus

• Through this workshop, the choreographer Snjezana will share some principles that were the starting point for the development of Asymmetry of the Embrace performance
• Specific previous experience is not required
• The workshop is open to all interested

14:00 - 14:50
Somatics as inspiration for life, as inspiration for artistic creation
Roundtable discussion

• Participants: Snježana Premuš, Zrinka Šimičić, Bernadett Jobbágy, Tamer Wajda and all presenters and workshop leaders

15:00 - 17:00
stage
Places of Becoming and Knowing. A workshop in embodied creativity.
Workshop by Dániel Attila Kovács

• The work utilises material from Body-Mind Centring, such as the developmental patterns of vibration and cellular breathing, and the so-called transitional fluid.
• Specific previous experience is not required
• The workshop is open to all interested

18:00 - 20:00
stage
Dobra voda || Good Water - performance installation
Zrinka Šimičić

Duration: 2 hours

• Visitors are invited to come and leave at any time during the scheduled period.
• Concept and choreography: Zrinka Šimičić
• Dance: Bernadett Jobbágy, Zrinka Šimičić
• Paper design: based on a motif by Marina Bauer
• Dramaturgical support: Dubravko Mihanović

SANDAY, MAY 4

10:00 - 12:00
studio
kinner Releasing Technique (SRT)

Workshop by Eszter Gal

• Specific previous experience is not required
• The workshop is open to all interested
• It is suggested to wear comfortable clothes and bring layers, as it might be needed

13:30 - 18:30
studio
Filming motion workshop

Facilitated by Bernadett Jobbagy

• Embodied filmmaking LAB
• Workshop with camera and composition: participation is possible with your own device

This workshop is a 2 days event:

• 4th May 2025, MU Theatre:

10:00 - 12:00: participation in the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRTS) workshop by Eszter Gal (not for filming, but as a somatic experience) 13:30 - 14:00: research directions and frameworks

14:00 - 18:30: field work, filming and photographing during the rehearsal and public performance of Asymmetry of the Embrace

• 8th May 2025, MICE Doctoral School / Feszty-haz:

14:00 - 17:00: summary of experiences, presentation of raw materials and/or first drafts, discussion, question (Changes may occur in location.)

17:00 - 18:30
public square
Asymmetry of the Embrace - performance
SnjeZana Premug

• Preformers: Gyongyi Beer, Tina Benko, Alja Branc, Timea Gyorke, Bernadett Jobbagy, Anja MejaC, Ilona RegOs, SnjeZana Premug, Lotti Szomor
• The performance happens in public spaces around the theatre.

18:30 - 20:00
cafe
Symposium closing