FFA SUMMER SCHOOLS 2026: Summer School of Movement and Critical Thinking – Antisocial Dance Class, Applications Open Until August 17, 2026

FFA Summer Schools offer an opportunity to spend part of your summer creatively. Through these summer schools, you will learn about artistic techniques, develop your creative skills, and meet interesting people. FFA Summer Schools are open to the general public, beginners with an interest in and passion for art, as well as those interested in future study at art schools, who can familiarize themselves with the FFA environment and use the summer schools as part of their preparation for entrance exams.

SUMMER SCHOOL OF MOVEMENT AND CRITICAL THINKING – ANTISOCIAL DANCE CLASS

This summer school is intended for the general public interested in movement, somatic approaches, performance, choreography, and the relationship between body and language. During this week-long movement laboratory led by Zuzana Žabková, participants will explore the relationship between the body, movement, and language as a space for critical thinking, creation, and social relations. The acquired skills can be applied in artistic practice (dance, performance, writing), pedagogical work, group facilitation, and everyday life. The summer school is based on the concept of the “Antisocial Dance Class,” through which we seek to emancipate the term “antisocial” — historically used to persecute those who did not conform to social norms (for example, in the Nazi designation asozial). In this context, antisociality does not signify isolation, but rather a conscious rejection of normative socialization and an opening toward alternative forms of coexistence, sensitivity, and relationships. The laboratory will function as a space for exploring the “body and the other body” — a body that exceeds its own physicality and enters into relation with its environment, a group, or society. Through movement scores, somatic techniques, writing, and reading poetic and critical texts, participants will develop somatic poetry and investigate how bodily experience is translated into language — and how language, in turn, shapes perception and movement.

Special emphasis will be placed on micro-decisions in interaction — whether to approach or withdraw, remain or change direction — as well as on listening to one’s nervous system, setting boundaries, and articulating consent or disagreement. Antisociality thus becomes a practice of attention, care, and transformation toward oneself, others, and the world, which we continuously reshape through movement and language.

Basic Information:

  • Lecturer: MgA. Zuzana Žabková

  • Dates: August 24–28, 2026

  • Duration: 30 teaching hours, daily from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a lunch break

  • Venue: FaVU BUT, Kraví hora Campus, Building No. 10 – Body Design Studio, Rybkova 23

  • Fee: CZK 4,800 paid to account number 111043273/0300, variable symbol 2602005 (Please include “FaVU/pohyb” and your name in the payment note.)

    The fee includes all materials and art supplies.

Applications for the Summer School of Movement and Critical Thinking must be submitted via the online application form no later than August 17, 2026. Please note that registration becomes binding only after the course fee has been paid. Proof of payment must be uploaded as part of the application process.

The online application form is currently available only in Czech. If you have any questions about filling it out, we’d be happy to help—please contact: Barbora.Sediva@vut.cz

Lecturer Profile:

Zuzana Žabková is an artist, dancer, and choreographer who explores the body as a prophetic apparatus, always in contact with something that exceeds its own boundaries. Her work often originates from places of incapacity, wounds, weakness, and brokenness, which she embraces as sacred survival strategies. She works with somatic fiction and collective game structures that serve as laboratories for imagining and rehearsing new forms of social relations. She works independently as well as collaboratively, rethinking values associated with labor, care, and interdependence. She is a co-founder of the björnsonova platform, which functions as a fictional character, a community, and a multilayered dancing body with roots and connections across different temporal, spatial, and artistic dimensions. Zuzana studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) and the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava, choreography at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. In 2021, she received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award together with the björnsonova platform, and in 2017 she was awarded the Oskár Čepan Award.

Required Participant Experience:

No prior knowledge or specific experience is required for participants interested in attending the summer school.

Cancellation Policy:

If you are unable to attend the summer school, you may find a substitute participant. In the event of cancellation up to 14 days before the start of the summer school (depending on the specific course schedule), the organizer will charge a cancellation fee amounting to 20% of the total paid amount. In the case of later cancellation, the paid fees are non-refundable. The organizer reserves the right to cancel individual summer schools in the event of an insufficient number of registered participants for a particular session. If the organizer cancels the summer school, the full paid amount will be refunded.

Contacts:

Questions regarding the course content and schedule: xvzabkovaz@vutbr.cz
Questions regarding financial matters: eo@favu.vut.cz

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