Somatic into Performance - ZeroPlus Performing Arts Training Program 2025/26

Name: Somatic into Performance - ZeroPlus Performing Arts Training Program 2025/26
Start: 2026-01-08T13:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-08T15:00:00+01:00
Location: ZéróPlusz Dance Studio

Schedule

Thu Jan 08 2026 at 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

ZéróPlusz Dance Studio | Budapest, BU

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

In this process, we explore performativity as a 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲–𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞.
The previous series, Somatic Into Technique, focused on the technical, anatomical, and somatic dimensions of how movement is generated. https://www.facebook.com/events/1102881257937900/1102881277937898 (don't worry if you haven't participated in it!)
This process turns in a different direction:
we are no longer asking how a movement works, but
𝐰𝐡𝐲, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.
Part of the course is learning
How to enter, remain in, and exit a performative state.
How do I recognize what is happening when I shift into a performative quality, and how can I work with it safely and clearly?
The ritual-like preparation, gradual progression, and body-attuned transitions are there to ensure that we do not get injured in performativity — physically or mentally — but instead 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬.
Graduality, transitions, state shifts
In Somatic Into Performance, performative presence is not approached “from the outside,” but unfolds from a deep somatic preparation.
The core focus of the course lies in the subtle transition where the soft, personal field of perception gradually opens toward performative channeling.
The structure of the process is always gradual:
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
We search for movements that simply feel good for the body — movements that attune our nervous system, create safety, and support arriving fully into the space and the practice.
This phase is entirely about ourselves: how my body, mind, and attention are right now, and what I need in order to be present.
𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲
On a physical level, we prepare the body and attention for greater forces, faster reactions, and the unpredictability of performative situations.
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬
Through tasks and specific focuses, we develop different layers of improvisational skills.
We work with both solo and group improvisational situations.
In 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, we explore how bodies affect one another, how attentions resonate, what kinds of unspoken relationships emerge, and how shared form and collective presence are built from these dynamics.
One of the central territories of performative improvisation is 𝐧𝐨𝐭-𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠.
We do not plan ahead, we do not know what will happen, and we are not searching for what we “should do.”
Part of the work is practicing how to relate to this uncertainty: how to stay with it, orient within it, and become familiar with it.
How not-knowing shifts from a lack into a sensitive field of attention from which the next movement can emerge.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 (𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲)
Although the course is grounded in improvisation, elements of fixed movement and the early seeds of choreographic thinking also appear.
For this reason, we build a short fixed form — something simple, yet carrying that transitional quality where improvisation condenses into form.
The trance of fixed movement is fundamentally different from the trance of improvisation: moving together in form, canon, repeating cycles, collective rhythm. These are all gateways that deepen performative presence.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 – 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠
Part of the work is also examining how the space — and I myself — change in the presence of a viewer.
What happens to the body when it is being seen?
In what quality can I remain within my own inner process while the presence of the viewer becomes part of the system?
The viewer is not an external element: their presence is active, formative, and transformative.
Dates and schedule:
13:30-15:00
jan. 8., 15., 22., 29., febr. 5., 12.
Fee:
24.000HUF for 6 classes
You can only attend to the whole process
Registration:
https://forms.gle/H671bVjm5KuGZKSr5
Information:
[email protected]
Language of the class is english, unless all students are hungarian.
The process is opened to everybody with little experience in movement and dance and lots of curiosity in performative practices.
It is part of the Zero Plus Training program, and also opened to everybody outside of the program as well.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐈𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚
I am a dancer, a movement researcher, teacher and bodyworker.
Dance has been a part of my life since I was a small child. Thanks to my parents, I was fortunate enough to be the youngest in the summer courses at IDMC, where I got a taste of many forms of dance and movement arts, such as Mattox, American Step, Afro, Butoh, etc. During the year, I danced folk dances and was a competitive gymnast.
As a teenager, I chose Magdolna Zákány's ballet and jazz classes to develop my movement skills.
As a young adult, I attended Béla Földi's company trainings every day for five years. During this time, I was also introduced to contemporary dance by several teachers and to Contact Improvisation.
As a member of several alternative associations, I also worked as a performer and creator.
I taught dance to children and body-awareness techniques to adults.
With the birth of my children, my own practice and therapeutic studies became a focus. I completed various movement and manual therapy trainings.
Later, I returned to teaching contemporary dance to teenagers and movement therapy to adults.
I immersed myself in Contact Improvisation and somatics.
I also worked at Csiky Gergely Theatre as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer.
Currently, I perform Contact Improvisation and other forms of improvisation. I was a member and co-creator of KIT Ensemble for 4 years, now I work with Third Kind Collective.
I teach CI and movement awerness, I lead jams. I organise workshops and KontaktLand Festival.
I work as a bodyworker specializing in fascia, offering hands-on and movement sessions.
I am particularly interested in somatics, effortless movement, and the self-development aspects of performance.
more info about my therapeutic work: https://www.regosilona.hu/