Kem School 2025 + Anka Herbut, Ania Nowak, Eve Stainton, softchaos + OPEN CALL
Open Programme 2 - 5.09
We’re moving forward with Kem School 2025! This year we’ve departed from working with one group throughout the year and made our whole programme available to the public. As part of our September programme we’re hosting a series of experimental formats, exploring the themes we find most urgent during this edition of Kem School - choreographies of protest, public space and anti-fascist art practices. Bringing us together to think about these we will have:
★ Anka Herbut - open lecture, 3.09 Jasna 10
★ Ania Nowak “Oral is Moral” - open rehersal, performative lecture, 5.09 TBC
★ softchaos “Freaky Belladonnas: Permission, Risk and Movement in Electronic Music” - new iteration of of an ongoing performative lecture, 3.09 Jasna 10
★ Eve Stainton “Atmospheres of Suspense” - workshop and performance in public space, 5.09 TBC
more details coming soon
OPEN CALL for “Atmospheres of Suspense” - workshop and performance by Eve Stainton
As part of the second block of Kem School 2025, Eve Stainton will lead a workshop exploring movement and choreography as methods to research and construct atmospheres of suspense within the body and between people.
Departing from the concept of identities of threat - understood as positions constructed and maintained in society and designated to people and things considered to be ‘dangerous’ or ‘other’, alongside considerations of how those images infiltrate bodies and ways of moving - Eve and the workshop participants will explore ways to make visible and transform states of suspense.
The workshop will also draw on research conducted around Impact Driver - Eve Stainton’s recent project which is inspired by gestures and rhythms of manual labor as a way of building movement and relationality.
Workshop participants will be invited to work with scores exploring interlocking bodies, rolling together, decceleration, stretched out time and bodies unyielding to postures of authority.
This workshop is intended for queer-identifying people, open to working with the body, intimacy and movement. The 3-day workshop will end with an open performance in public space, choreographed with Eve Stainton.
Dates:
Tuesday, 2.09, 16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon meeting and introductory talk with Eve
Wednesday, 3.09 , 10:00 - 17:00 workshop
Thursday, 4.09 , 10:00 - 17:00 workshop
Friday, 5.09 , 14:00 - 18:00 + public performance at 21:00
Language of instruction: English
Place: Jasna 10, Świetlica Krytyki Politycznej
Capacity: 16 attendants
How to apply: https://forms.gle/WjXM2c9oAcc4MpPz7
In case of any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at school@kemwarsaw.com
Eve Stainton is an artist and choreographer born in Manchester and living in London, UK. They create multi-disciplinary performances that involve movement practices, welded steel/live welding, digital collage, and other invisible forces like drama and suspense. Their research is rooted in community, interested in how differently marginalised people experience and come into relationship with power structures and societal conventions. Often working with codes or tropes of gender, class and threat, their work stages clunky physical negotiations and reveals 'behind the scenes' mechanisms of working together to show a kind of reality that isn’t seamless.
Kem School is co-financed by the City of Warsaw
Kem School 2025 is supported by the British Council under the UK/Poland Season 2025
Goethe Institut is a partner of the project