Bohemiae Rosa 2026 / Site Body Exploration

Name: Bohemiae Rosa 2026 / Site Body Exploration
Start: 2026-08-04T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-09T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Farmstudio

Schedule

Tue, 04 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 am to Sun, 09 Aug, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Farmstudio | Kralupy Nad Vltavou, ST

International Interdisciplinary Open–Air Workshop for dancers and artists exploring the relation among body, art and landscape led by Frank van de Ven (NL) and Milos Sejn (CZ)
Kokorin Valley (The Czech Republic)
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The program will include:
• MB - (mind/body, muscles/bones) movement training
• practice of and reflection on physical and mental training
• walking and wandering, silent walk, pilgrimage and nocturnal journeys
• various modes of experiencing body, movement and landscape
• investigating divergent senses of space and time
• peripatetic records, drawing, writing, immediate contact with surroundings
• mental topography of a location, myth, archaic mind and genius loci
• geology, archaeology and history of Landscape as a model of self: layers, vertical connections and labyrinths
Participants profile:
for artists and advanced students working in performance, dance, landscape art, sculpture, photography, architecture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history.
Selection of participants will be based on c.v. and motivation.
No previous (dance) training is necessary but the workshop will be physically demanding. A good overall condition is required.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Dates: 4 - 9 August 2026, arrival evening of 3 August
Meeting place: Bohemia FARMSTUDIO, Vysoká 26, Czech Republic, GPS N 50°24.68267', E 14°32.30760
Workshop Fee:
• Euro 350 (students/unwaged Euro 320) + Euro 190 (food and lodging)
• Czech participants 5000 CZK (students/unwaged 4500 CZK) + 4800 CZK (food and lodging)
APPLICATION
To apply send name, a short c.v. and a motivation letter to
frank.bwa[at]xs4all.nl, or katerina.bilejova[at]fhs.cuni.cz
The number of participants is limited. We recommend early applications.
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Extended info about Bohemiae Rosa project:
Milos Sejn works in the fields of visual art, performance, and the study of visual perception. Since the early 1960s, he has been photographing, drawing, collecting, and carefully recording his observations of nature during long wanderings through repeatedly traversed and gradually internalized landscapes. This work grows from sustained bodily engagement with landscape, understood not merely as a visual phenomenon but as a lived, historical, and sensorial field. For nearly twenty years, he worked as a professor of intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and held guest teaching positions at several European art academies. Artistic practice unfolds through long-term observation and direct bodily experience–through immediate, repeated acts born of encounters between body, place, and time. Moving between historically shaped, humanized landscapes and areas of intact nature, he attends to subtle shifts, temporal sedimentations, and nearly imperceptible exchanges between natural processes and human presence. His work is grounded in return.
Frank van de Ven has 30 years of experience teaching dance, theatre and creative movement in many Art Colleges, Universities and Dance Institutions around the world. His main practice is Body Weather, a comprehensive approach to training and performance that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Bodies are conceived not as fixed and separate entities but as constantly changing - just like the weather. Weather is seen as a complex system of forces and influences coursing through and beyond bodies and the world. The term and philosophical basis for Body Weather was founded in the early 1980's by dancer Min Tanaka and the Maijuku Performance Company, with whom Frank worked in Japan, from 1983-1991. Since 1995 he has been conducting the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project with Milos Sejn, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture.