Dancing the Political
Online Course

Trailer #1

Summary of Workshop details

• You will take a social or political issue and embody them, process them, and perhaps “perform/express” them outwards.

• Level of workshop and audience: all levels of dancers and non-dancers, suitable for amateur and professional - recommended to have improv background - if you don’t you must submit a video of dancing to me as an application .

• 6 meetings, 2.5 hours Sundays

• Pricing: 280-480 euro scaling price (cannot afford - write me)

• April 27 you can try the workshop on the first day of the course for 50 euros. Sign up through emailing without the signup form.

• Sign up link

• Questions here: saed.mansour.movement@gmail.com

Workshop details

Location Zoom

Dates and times:

17:30 Central Europe time, 8:30 am USA PT time, 11:30 am USA ET time

Each session will last 2.5 hours example sessions - 5 to 10-minute check-in, 30 30-minute warmup, 5 5-minute break, 1 to 1.5 hours diving deep into dancing the political session, 5-to 10-minute break, 15-minutes processing through conversation

Dates:

April 27 - June 8 - 6 meetings
May 25 will be off.

Introduction and what will we do?

The story, pain, and trauma we contain in our body are not just our own: it is heavily influenced by social and political issues in the world, by our family history, and by our roots.

We will embody and improvise on social and political issues we care about through tools I used in my dance creation process in the last years that helped me create my dance creations - specifically tools from my solo "اثنين שתיים" and duet “Divide and Conquer”.

Example exercise Each participant will take a personal story that touches them deeply and is connected to their community or society. Then you will embody the collective of your group, and then you will embody the "enemy", and then we will play with embodying both at the same time (for your issues we might use different words - "enemy" might not work for you).

For example Saed (A Palestinian living in technically what you call Israel) - I will embody the Palestinian collective, then I will embody the Israeli Soldier, then I will live both in my body at the same time. The result is unexplainable until you live it.

Background needed / Pre-requisite / Level: all-level workshop with some dance/theatre improv - this is an all-level workshop but you need experience in improvisation so you can take a subject and improvise on it through movement. You will have a hard time if you cannot improvise - if you are not sure about it - please send me a video of you dancing to my email in the details of this page/website.

How did this start?

The beginning of this research came from Saed's solo "etheen shtaieem". But this workshop, as a process, started in Geneva with Saed and Héloïse Dell'Ava as a week-long process of solo creation of political and social significance.

Emotional availability and willingness to do this process you need emotional availability and willingness to go through tough topics and processes, share in front of the group, etc. We will be as sensitive as possible but make sure you have the space for it in your life right now.

Pricing
280 euro - students, people who cannot afford the price at the moment (I trust you will make the right decision)
370 euro - normal price
480 euros - support someone who cannot afford

Tryout workshop April 27: 50 euro

Still a lot for you? Please email me - we will talk about it and see if we can work it out depending on our needs.

Please send me payment in EUROS to my European bank account listed below

BANK transfer
Account holder: Said Mansour
BIC: TRWIBEB1XXX
IBAN: BE07 9672 5887 3966
Wise's address: Avenue Louise 54, Room S52
Brussels
1050
Belgium

Cancellation policy

Cancellation and refund are only possible up until 2 weeks before the workshops, from there on there won’t be any refunds. Please try out the class on April 27 if you need to before committing.

Signing up
Link here.
Please complete your payment after registration if possible.

Trying it out

You can try the course out in the first meeting with a 50 euro payment.

How do I choose a story/issue/conflict to work with?

You can choose a collective issue that is of personal connection to you: from your roots, ethnicity, race, or country. You can also choose a collective issue from another collective with a lot of sensitivity of how that other collective will feel towards you doing that. For example: a white person doing an act about Afrodescendant heritage needs to come with a great deal of awareness. In this space, we don’t want to over-provoke other people’s deep wounds - even though we believe in the act of provocation through art but in this particular space, we do want to be very sensitive towards the group that will work.

Any questions?
saed.mansour.movement@gmail.com

Trailer (Geneva June 2023 Performance)

Creating a performance isn’t what we will do in this workshop - but it’s great to show what the process can lead to if it was for both one week with a performance and internal process goal - it’s also an offer I do but not in this one! Trailer from Geneva June 2023 end of creation process performance edition with Héloïse Dell'Ava Luna

Videography and editing by Raphaël Harari

Trailer from November 2022 Geneva Video (process and performance)

Videography and editing - Matteo Maringola & Carolina Maldarelli