Body frame in 2011

In 2011  „Body Frame“  (with the project „The Day After“) arisen in the project „Together“, aimed to create space for cooperation  and dialogue of different marginal parts of society with common society, by means of drama programmes and theatre productions.

Workshops

As the part of the project ”Hajde da...” Group has organized inclusive workshops of contemporary dance, in cooperation with Association of blind and visually impaired people of Serbia „White Cane“ and Cultural Centre REX (from 28th to 30th June 2011). Workshops were aimed for persons with some form of disability/handicap (wheelchair users, blind and visually impaired persons, deaf and hard of hearing persons), professional dancers and choreographers, amateurs, other interested artists and all interested citizens of Belgrade (and beyond). Total number of participants was 21.

Workshops were conducted by Jovana Rakić-Kiselčić, assisted by Stojan Simić.

After the workshop progress had been finished, presentation of results and created dance material was organized, as well as public discussion with all interested guests.

Recording of this presentation is availabe (in two parts):

Statement of presentation participant:
I had strong positive feeling during entire presentation. I felt the need to stand up and dance with you. I admire your immense positive energy. I had impression that every one of you dances with all other participants. No matter if the whole group or one pair of participants had been on stage, you looked absolutely compact, all the time.

Statement of workshop participant:
Dance dissolved usual categories we put each other into. Dance turns existing categories into something else. This is excellent key for inclusion. The way of communication was quite a challenge for me, because we simply don’t use same means of communication. However, I realized that this is no issue whatsoever when it comes to dance. I stopped occupying myself with obstacles. I enjoyed and I believe we all had the time of our lives.