FULL NAME:

Hrotkó Heléna

Karczag Éva

- PHONE NUMBER: +36 70 536 06 15

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- TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY:  

Proposal for Non-Hierachical Teaching Lab

- DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (150 words or more):

LEAP_Learn Exchage Apply Practice

Proposal for Non-Hierachical Teaching Lab

by Éva Karczag and Heléna Hrotkó

We propose a lab where we will create a field for sharing, where participants can bring questions and statements, and where we can discuss and explore the essence of non hierarchical teaching.

Some of the questions that we would like to propose include:

• Why do I teach? Why do I teach in a non-hierarchical way?

• What do I teach? What are the most interesting fields and central topics in my movement and life research?

• How can teaching become a time when I feel that I'm nourished and charged with energy?

Some of the topics related to non hierarchical teaching that we would like to propose include:

Shared research of teacher and student

• The teacher is willing to discover the unknown together with the students and can provide a frame and enter into the research with them via multiple channels, such as movement, discussion, observation, feedback, visual material, sensory stimulation...etc.

• The teacher wishes to deepen his/her own understanding and insights into what is being researched

• During the class the teacher is going through the same process as the students

Shared interest

• Working with material that is of immediate interest, important, nourishing and joyful for the teacher and is a continually renewing source that feeds his/her curiosity, attention and openness

• Working with issues that emerge through open group discussion

Shared trust

• Both teacher and students feel the authenticity of the teacher's partnership

• The teacher acknowledges that the student carries all information within him/herself and gives space for the student to be able to discover this through listening, sensing and being present

Shared actuation

• The teacher's interest and motivation is constantly engaged and renewed by the transformations she/he witnesses and experiences

• The teacher is able to generate curiosity that permeates everyone in the space, teacher and student alike, and leads to movement research.

• The teacher is inspired by what he/she observes happening in the space and can feed this information back.

Shared interface

• Embodying a non-hierarchical attitude within everyday life, so that even while preparing class, the teacher is able to interact with his/her surroundings and bring this stance into the studio – the macrocosm informing the microcosm and vice versa

- SUMMARY OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION (max 60 words; for publishing)                              

We propose a lab where we will create a field for sharing, where participants can bring questions and statements, and where we can discuss and explore the essence of  non hierarchical teaching.                                                                                                                                                

- SHORT BIOGRAPHY (max 60 words for publishing (if co-taught all in all max 60 words)

Heléna Hrotkó: Holistic Dance Teacher and contemporary dancer. Is giving regular somatic movement classes in Budapest. Works with “Living Picture Theatre” since 2011. Both teaching and performing are part of her own movement research.

Éva Karczag: Independent dance artist. Practices, teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making, utilizing somatic methods. Was a member of Trisha Brown Dance Company, and was on the faculty of EDDC, Arnhem, Netherlands.

- AIMED AT WHO (AND HOW MANY PEOPLE MIN /MAX?)

Anyone interested in non-hierarchical teaching. Max number: 30

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-  TIME REQUEST:     

180 min                                                                                                                                                              

- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (audio, beamer etc):                                                                                                                                                                                   

Sheats of large paper or newsprint, pen, pencil

- SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc):

large studio

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