WORKSHOPS

KNOWING THE BODY AND MAKING IT EXPRESSIVE by Ana Rokvić- Pinterić

The workshop aims to introduce different body-based techniques, deriving from Applied Drama and Theatre of the oppressed approaches. Apart from getting to know the basics of using body in dramatic expression, participants will stress and try to overcom their own taboos, obstacles and sterotypes on human body and its cultural & social meaning.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER

Ana Rokvić Pinterić, 1982, met the methods of Theatre of the oppressed eleven years ago. She attended different courses and trainings all over the word, and since 2000 she has worked as a practitioner herself. Ana is a theatre director, pedagogue and actress, working in different associations and institutes. She is a founder of Grad Teater, a group organizing Le Soleil, a festival of theatre, music and dance. In 2008, she prepared a performance "Mehki ć" in cooperation with Jemo zenf Theatre group. 

WOMANHOOD, MYTHS AND REALITIES by Nena Močnik

Participants will question and ciritize the cultural construction of woman- and/or manhood, our gender-based social roles and influences that they have on people's ordinary lives. The focus will be in radicalization of our gender roles in the political conflict and wars, in terms of radical sexual violence and rape. The aim of workshop is to break the established gender narratives and create new ones. The outcome will be presented in the final performance on March 8th.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER

Nena Močnik, 1986, junior reserarcher at Faculty of Social Sciences, focuses her study and works on different discriminatory practices and conflict cultures, multiculturalism, social exclusion and political violence. She works as pedagogue in non-formal education since 2008, using different forms of interactive approaches, especially educational theatre & engaged drama. She directed three performances and this year, becoming a D&F Academy Fellow, she is developing a program for multicultural learning and peace education with the support of educational theatre tools.

FOR THE SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS & APPLICATION PROCESS please contact Barbara Hribar (contact@cityofwomen.org) or Nena Močnik (nena.mocnik@gmail.com)