Dancing the Political
Stockholm

Trailer #1

NEWS! POSTPONED!

I’ve got an opportunity to teach at the Stockholm University of Arts in November 2025 which makes this workshop profitable for me so I’ve seen it more fit to postpone to then. See you then!

Summary of Workshop details

• Level of workshop and audience: all levels of dancers and non-dancers, suitable for amateur and professional - self-process mostly, recommended to have a little bit of improv background at least.

• You will take a social or political issue and embody it in different ways. Everyone! Everyone! has one - all issues at the end of the day are personal but also are shared by millions of others like you - they also come from the system and your personal life.

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

Workshop details

Location

Tegelscenen in Hökarängen (google maps)

Dates and times:
TBD

Introduction and what will we actually 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 from first day 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.

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.

Pricing
TBD
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Signing up
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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