Binaries are static, dance is not.

This dance workshop, featuring Tereza Silon and Zeynab Gueye and focusing on queer ecological sensibility, is intended for the general public.

Bodies learn also by imitating other bodies' ways. In this society, their somatic expression and the way they are carried can prescribe our seeming belonging to a group, gender or sexuality. What happens when we step outside of expectations and allow ourselves to collectively occupy a space for our individual variable ways of moving and being? What if we allow people and relationships within the space we occupy to become to an extent opaque, expansive beyond the social(ized) categories that have been prescribed without any consent? And what tools does this approach require for building a more empathetic space? What is it like to feel for other bodies in space and celebrate our permeability and reciprocity, as well as our limits and boundaries? What happens when we attempt to outwit and move out of the internalized expectations that are trying to regulate our movement?

The workshop aims to create a safer and more inclusive space for different persons*, in which we gradually engage with our bodies through movement. We then dance these bodies with the awareness of their diversity and ambiguity, we connect through our sensory and empathic attunement to the collective body.
A party will follow!
A celebration of the secular mysticism of our hearts and an invitation to the ability to (not) cling to a static vision of our embodiment.

* 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆. 𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 (𝒅𝒊𝒔)𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇. 𝑰𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.
♾️ reservation needed! via institutuzkosti@gmail.com
(please, let us know your language preference)
♾️ vacation of 20 people
♾️ free of entry (cold and warm nonalcoholic drinks included)

𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒛𝒂 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒏 is a performer, facilitator and bodyworker. In their interdisciplinary practice, she has long worked with embodiment and corporeality, queer perspectives, social and natural ecologies, the collective body and possibilities of creating space for generative intimacy in extractive systems. They believe that one day everyone will be able to play.

𝒁𝒆𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒃 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒚𝒆 (zey) is an interdisciplinary artist. They focus mainly on artistic research, which draws upon their academic background, feminist and anti-racist practice, as well as on Djing and their long-term love of dance.

This event is a part of the long-term program QUEERING. AN ENDLESS NUMBER OF POTENTIAL NATURES organized by the Institute of Anxiety. It aims to stimulate inter-disciplinary collaborations to focus on a search for new forms of evolutionary processes, ecological interactions and policies from the perspective of queer and feminist theory.

This event is realised as a part of the project QUEERING. AN ENDLESS NUMBER OF POTENTIAL NATURES with a support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Hall and the State Fund of Culture.