Embodied witnessing - weekend intensive with Jori Snell

Name: Embodied witnessing - weekend intensive with Jori Snell
Start: 2025-09-26T17:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-28T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Jurányi Produkciós Közösségi Inkubátorház

Schedule

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Jurányi Produkciós Közösségi Inkubátorház | Budapest, BU

Dear Contact Improvisation Movers in Budapest, Hungary and abroad.
I’m delighted to be coming back for another weekend intensive in Budapest.
This intensive is a follow up from the 2023 & 2024 workshops I gave in Budapest, riding on the same themes of kindling somatic embodiment in our CI dancing while moving into performative awareness.
We will, during this weekend, play and extend our focus on dancing with “scores” , and the effect scores can have on our presence, attention and quality of dancing. Scores that I will propose, and scores we may create together in the process.
This weekend is mainly for intermediate practicioners, because we will take time to move in front of each other, witnessing, giving and receiving feedback and practicing verbal exchange from what we experienced as movers and witnesses. Scores can help us, heighten our attention in certain areas,…scores can also “limit” us, scores can “challenge” us, scores can “confuse” us, or bring about unusual pathways….However we look at it, what is of importance is that we play with options, with choice and with creative spontaneous “composing” and “placement” of our dance. Thus cultivating an awareness of instant composition, design and group work.
This is exciting material! We need to be willing to meet the edges of our comfort zones, be willing to be courageously vulnerable and true to ourselves, and most of all to enjoy ourselves….also while making “mistakes” (which do not exist!). We aim to strengthen a keen“knowledge” inside ourselves that can be ‘trained like a muscle”. Call it intuition; skill; luck; mental, physical, emotional maturing; being creatively human….and much more which is unnameable between the lines…
Inspired by the very roots and early years of CI where the practice was witnessed by each other and an audience, we will play with conscious and subconscious composition, in solo, duet, trio and as an ensemble, including embodied witnessing as an essential part of the practice.
“Undoing. Wild, untamed. Safe, yet at the very edge of our being…”
I look forward to seeing you!
Jori
Place:
Jurányi , Studio Grabo 100 (4th Floor)
Budapest, Jurányi u.1, 1027 Hungary.
Schedule:
Friday the 26th:
17.30-18.00: Arrival/registration
18.00-20.30 Evening session
Saturday the 27th
09.30-10.00 Arrival/space open
10.00-13.00 Morning session
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-18.00 Afternoon session
Sunday 28th
09.30-10.00 Arrival/space open
10-12 Morning session/ closure
12-12.45 Snack/ light Lunch
12.45-15.00 Afternoon session and Closure
What to bring:
Easy movable clothes, long pants are advisable. Kneepads if you have. Water bottle and lunch. Notebook if you want to take notes.
Places are limited (max 20), to ensure your place in the workshop,
register early!
Registration and Costs:
You can register on the following email address: [email protected] (english and hungarian)
Early bird: Before the 1st Sept. 110 Euros
After the 1st of Sept. 130-150 Euros (pay as you can).
Your registration becomes final when you pay a deposit of €60.
The deposit is non-refundable, except in case of workshop cancellation.
About Jori:
Jori Snell is a physical performing-and visual artist from Holland/Denmark (1972). She works as a freelance performer, improviser, director and teacher, transforming her training in physical theatre, contact improvisation (CI), butoh/martial arts and visual arts into a personal language. Companies she has worked with are: Odin Teatret (DK), Teatret OM (DK), Corona la Balance/ZeBU(DK) and Panthéâtre (Roy Hart Theatre, FR), Su-En Butoh company (SE). Between 2008-2016, based in Cape Town, South Africa, she created works for/with companies such as FTH:K & Ubom! (Physical/Visual Theatres) and Remix Dance Company (Mixed Ability Dance). She initiated and sustained the CI scene in Cape Town. Her inspiration in Butoh, CI and Improvisation has grown and developed through her meetings with Tadashi Endo, Su-En, Kitt Johnson, Kirstie Simson, Katie Duck, Lucia Walker, Ray Chung, Nancy Stark Smith and many others. Since 2016 she has collaborated intensively with Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood, teaching and performing in Canada, Denmark, South Africa and Costa Rica. Now based in Costa Rica, she is passionate about sharing her work in local dance and art communities.In her work and teaching she aims to bring alive an authentic expression in body, mind and space, moving between dance, myth & poetry with a love for spontaneous, alive and improvised image-making.