Workshop Foundation is using Jennifer Lacey’s statement in her ‘Letter from Jennifer Lacey’, written after the Bucharest Teaching The Teachers meeting, as inspiration: "(…) the basis of dance, any performance form really, is someone showing up somewhere. The art and the thinking is in the choices of the how showing up in relation to the where.’"
They will structure the Budapest ttt-session as a series of expeditions to Budapest dance schools and alternative studio/performance spaces, with the objective of getting to see, hear, feel and reflect upon the different goals and methods employed by each place to train and/or support emergent and professional dance artists.

Participating artists: Tamás Bakó (HU), Viktória Varga (HU), Éva Karczag (AUS / NL), Gill Clarke (UK), Susanne Martin (DE), Peter Pleyer (DE), Dorothea Rust (CH)

Program:
The plan is to visit a different school/studio/performance space each day (April 14 -18). In each location, one member of the ttt group will teach a class open to members of the local dance community and thus allow to share our knowledge widely. In each place an in-depth tour will be given, and a description of the work that happens there. The participants wil then inhabit the space during the afternoon, employing a self-organizing approach to structure the time spent there. Familiarizing themselves with each space will generate material for consideration and discussion. Workshop Foundation intends, through this practical approach, to involve the local dance community, whilst getting to know different spaces, the people who use them, and the working methods they employ.
 
On the second last day (April 19) everyone from the local dance community, and those interested, will be invited to an open forum (at Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy) where ideas developed during this session will be shared.

The last day will be reserved for the group as a time for reflection, processing, raising further questions and writing about our experiences.
 
A possible topic to ponder is a question heard recently on the BBC World Service:
"How much permission does an artist get"?
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"How much permission does an artist give themselves"
 
This question extends from the area of training – how can we train future dance artists to be able to give themselves permission to step beyond the known – into the arena of the professional dance artist.