Fusion for

Creativity
sharing and exploring methods of
dance and coaching
to support the growth of youth entrepreneurship
2014-3-HU02-KA105000485

KOMP House
July 21-29, 2015 Alsótold, Hungary

Nowadays we are all self-employed – whether we like this term or not. 25 – 30% of young people are unemployed, the
number is growing, and even more of us are „hidden unemployed”: work as freelancers, jumping between project-based,
part-time, temporary jobs. However, we must recognize that the age of classic employment is over. The project-based,
temporary character is becoming dominant in each sector, let it be formal, non-formal or business, in education and
all other expertize areas. These forms of work are becoming more and more widespread in NGOs, education, small
business, social enterprise and start-ups.

The challenge for youth work is double:

Are we as youth workers, non-formal educators, equipped withtools and methods with which we can prepare and
support youngsters to face this new and strongly growing character of the labour market?
Are we as young people ourselves, owning theskills and attitudes to live and work in and with this environment?

This is a brand new training, developed on request of people who did so called „synergy dance trainings”
with us before, wanting to continue dance and self-discovery.
Among each other we call it “the advanced dance training”.

The training is for people who did at least 1 dance training with us before, committed to develop themselves further dance,
enterpreneurship and working with people.

3-4 support team places are available for people good at working with videos.

The main theme is personal enterpreneurship. We use methods and techniques from contemporary dance, improvisation,
individual coaching, performance, video to explore and reflect on participants’ relation to enterpreneurship, creative
individual and small-team work, and to train specific skills and attitude needed in the 21st century for a person who takes
responsibility to create their own living.

We learn about • Go beyond basic mastery of skills and/or curriculum to explore and expand our own learning,
opportunitiesand take initiative to improve skill levels.
mindful and self-directed • Demonstrate commitment to learning.
learning & • Explore and reframe concepts of space, time, temporariness, movement, new, change, precision,

creating
enjoyment and productivity, reflect critically on past experiences in order to inform future progress
• Prepare an inform ourselves, start from zero, innovate, improvise, transform, modify, recognise pos-
sibilities, take risks.
• Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions, par-
ticularly in multi-cultural, multigenerational, socially mixed environments.
• Leverage social and cultural differences to create new ideas, increase both innovation and
quality of work.
• Set and meet goals, prioritize, plan, and manage work to achieve the intended result, even in the
face of obstacles and competing pressures.
• Adapt to varied roles, job responsibilities, schedules, contexts and multitasking.
• Work effectively in an environment of ambiguity and fastly changing priorities.
• Incorporate feedback effectively, deal positively with praise, setbacks, and criticism.
• Work alone, collaboratewith a partner, cooperate in a network, relate to our immediate and
wider environment, find or createour market, developour product, make it unique,
authentic and spicy.
• Conduct and present ourselves in a respectable, professional manner.

Program
preparation • regular homework: you will receive tasks from the trainers such as videos to watch and reflect on,
and materials to create. We assume it takes a couple of hours per week, however, the time and
April 1-June 20 energy to be invested depends a lot on your personal style and attitude.
• 3 months of physical training preceeding the course: you select a form of phyisical training you
like and it is easily doable in your life circumstances, train minimum 3 times 1 hour per week for 3
months preceeing the training and report monthly on your physical and mental progress.
• missing elements and deadlines of the preparation automatically means that the participant
resigns from the project and we invite another person from the waiting list to join.

training
10+hours/day of intense physical movement, self-discovery and self-directed creation
• revisiting the material of the 1st dance training
July 21-29 • dance, improvisation and partnerwork techniques
• optional dance and movement workshops by participants
• workshops on entrepreneurship
• creating your own materials: phrases, solo, duet or trio and videos
• personalised coaching sessions
• performance
• media appearance
Find the course description HERE.

follow-up • implementing what we learned in our home environment or work,

based on your own plan
• report back on the outcome and impact with short reports, photos and videos
• missing elements and deadlines of the follow-up may result in losing your travel reimbursement

Principles of our learning environment

Choose to trust the training and try trusting it for a while.
Be curious.
Pull everything out of your trainers, participants and fellow group members.
Consider everything as an experiment. There are no mistakes, only results.
There is no win or fail, there is only make.
Work, practice, test.
Only action brings you results.
By working all the time you may eventually catch upon things.
Be self-disciplined.
To be disciplined means finding someone wise or smart and follow in a good way.
To be self-disciplined means to follow in a better way.
Improvement means to do something in a way that every time it changes.
If you catch yourself repeating, it means you are not improving.
Do not create and analyse at the same time.
They are different processes.
Be happy, enjoy yourself, have fun.
It is lighter than you think.
Allow yourself to be surprised and allow others to surprise you.

Trainers
Alex Tsiamoglou (Greece), Krisztina Győry (Hungary) and Marjory Helstone (the Netherlands)
Alex is a choreographer/dancer/filmmaker. He has worked with choreographers and dance companies as Sinequanon, Default,
50 Collective, David Zambrano and Lia Tsolaki. He has given workshops on contemporary dance and improvisation classes
in Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Spain, Netherlands and Greece. He founded his own company Rough|Cut under which he produces
choreographic work and short dance films.

Krisztina is a competence development trainer, youth worker and coach, founder of the highly successful international youth
NGO, Egyesek Youth Association and a local business, Creative Space. Her expertise is small business and civic initiative, cultural
adaptation, and training personal creativity.

Alex and Krisztina are both trainers of a European network called the International Synergy Group for 11 years. They have been
developing the program and the methods of the so called „synergy dance training” together with the participants of the program
since 2007, having guided the core program 9 times so far. They both have many years of experience in working with multicultural
groups, community work, using a variety of non-formal educational methods.

Marjory is a dance teacher at The Fontys Dance Academy in the Netherlands. She has worked with the first jazz dance companies
in the Netherlands, Djazzex and Vibration Black Dance Theatre. She studied at Codarts University Rotterdam and has been a
teacher for many years. She has been involved in many dance projects in Europe, Africa and South America. Marjory Helstone has
had a major impact on the development of the Afro Jazz dance and gives international dance workshops.

A team of volunteers will assist the trainers, they are people who did one of the previous dance trainings and want to improve their
skills further by supporting the participants.

Organizer
Egyesek Youth Association is one of the leading independent youth NGOs in Hungary, member of the
informal network called International Synergy Group and several other worldwide networks. Egyesek has
17 years of experience in local-level, grassroot youth and community work, and in designing, guiding and
organising non-formal learning projects, such as community service, exchanges, volunteering, internship
programs, training courses and workshops.

Check our work!

Process
application 1 Fill in the application and motivation form and submit it by April 1, 2015.

2 Make a video of yourself dancing. Choose things that you are best at. In this video
we need to see your full potential and creativity.
Criteria:
• Length: min 1’ to max 2’
• The video is one shot (no editing) and your whole body is visible.
• The location can be outdoor (park, square, building) or indoor (home,
studio, room etc). Take care that there is enough light so we can see you.

It is personal and so we are able to see somehow your personal approach

in dance (this means no copying of dance choreographies).

Upload your video to Dropbox.

How? Sign in with fusionforcreativity@gmail.com account
(password: dance2015) and upload it!

selection criteria • balance of the group concerning age, gender, social background and experience
• contents of the application and the audition must show clearly, with specific examples, how your
personal learning objectives fit into the objectives of the project

The ones not selected in the first round will be on the waiting list and as soon as there is an empty
place, we will contact them.

confirmation When you are selected you will get the confirmation letter from Egyesek, containig your contract.
Egyesek informs you about how to get to the venue and the accomodation, what to take into
consideration for planning your journey and you communicate with them your special needs, e.g. diet.
Do NOT buy tickets before you get the confirmation letter.
Consider, that you need to arrive in time, not only to Hungary, but also to the accommodation!

contract After selection participants sign a contract in which they commit themselves for the whole project.
Apply ONLY if you commit yourself to the WHOLE PROCESS of preparation, training and follow-up.

Practicals
venue The workshop will take place in the village of Alsótold, Hungary.
It is a brand new accommodation run by a local NGO. There are 4 bedded rooms with their own
separate shower and toilet. Free WiFi is available. We ask you to bring towels; bedsheets, blankets and
pillows are provided.

In the building you find common social areas, big outdoor spaces, kitchen and the dining area.
The training room is in another building within 2 minutes of walk.

Cooking will be done by a professional chef. Those who indicated their special diet in the application
form get proper food according to their diet.

Alsótold is a very small village with limited opening hours of shops and post office.
There is no tobacco shop and no ATM in the village, it is important that you exchange enough
money before. At the airport, only change a small amount of money, we advise you to exchange
money in the city. Average exchange rate is above 300HUF/EUR.

special needs If you have any physical limitations, allergy, disease and/or use medicine we need to know about,
indicate it in the application form. If you are vegetarian or have a special diet, let us know, indicating
what you cannot or don’t want to eat, and also what you CAN eat, so that we can arrange
suitable food.
Please, tell us beforehand if you need any assistance from us in this matter.

what to bring There are certain things we ask you to bring with you for your physical safety, personal hygiene of
yourself and the other members of the group.

Weather at this time of the year is mostly warm but it can be also chilly, the temperature will be around
20-40°C, but rain, wind and storms can be expected, as well as hot sun.

Take care that you have enough clothes for 10 days of intensive movement. You might need to change
clothes often. We will do a lot of exercises on the floor, also sit on the floor a lot, some activities will take
place outside. Consider that we will move many times a day between the accommodation and the
training location.
Washing machine is not available in the accommodation.

☐ Towels, also extra ones for use during the program

☐ Water bottle
☐ Warm clothes for outdoor & indoor activities and for after-movement times,
in case you need to change
☐ Long sports trousers – for both men and women it is obligatory
that your trousers are at least knee length, covering your knee, min. 2 pairs
☐ T-shirts / tops for physical movement (girls: sports bra!),
advisable to be able to cover your shoulders as we work quite a lot on the floor
☐ We suggest dancing barefoot. However, you might want to use:
☐ Socks made of a material that is healthy, breathable and non-slippery
☐ Indoor shoes for dance and physical activities: holds your feet, and allows maximum
CHECKLIST

flexibility. We ask you to wear these shoes ONLY inside, and use different ones for outside
☐ Backpack or smaller bag for your daily equipment
☐ Rainjacket
☐ Outdoor sports shoes
☐ Music of different styles, atmospheres and rhythms, without and with lyrics
☐ MP3 players and photo cameras
☐ Any accessories that you use for sports, dance, or theatre
☐ Your own medicines
☐ Money (participant’s contribution in cash in euros)
☐ Documents
☐ ID or passport
☐ insurance (described below) and / or your EHIC (E111) card
☐ invoices, tickets, boarding passes for travel reimbursement

We ask you to arrive to Budapest on July 21, 2015.
arrival & departure We organise a common bus for you from Budapest to Alsótold, and the way back from Alsótold to
Budapest.

The common bus leaves at 16.00 from Budapest, Nyugati railway station (Nyugati pályaudvar), from in
front of Western City Center shopping mall, in the parking lot.

For you to arrive to the meeting point in time, you should arrive to Budapest latest 14.30.

If you arrive 1-2 days earlier or leave later, please arrange your own accommodation for the extra time.
If you need support in connection with this, let us know. A visit to touristic sites is NOT part of the program,
if you want to use this opportunity for such visits too, please arrange your travel in a way that you have
some days before or after the workshop and be aware that the Erasmus+ Programme does not support it.

On July 29, the common bus will arrive to Budapest earliest 9.00. Arrange your travel in a way, that you
leave Budapest after 12.00.

You commit yourself to participate in the whole training.

Coming later or leaving earlier is not allowed.

Arrival
18.00 July 21, 2015
to the accommodation
Registration,
19.30 July 21, 2015
Program starts
Program ends 22.00 July 28, 2015
Departure
7.00 July 29, 2015
from the accommodation

costs Egyesek covers the following costs:

• accommodation
& reimburesement • food
• costs of the program
• 100% of the travel costs of foreign participants up to the limit (see below)
• visa costs (if you have an invoice from it!)

Participants cover the following costs:

• the rest of your travel costs from your living place to the program venue
• your own insurance
• participants’ contribution: 80€ /participant. To be paid in cash in EUROS on arrival.

Country No. of participants Limit of travel cost in €

Bulgaria 4 275
Latvia 3 275
Greece 3 275
Netherlands 3 275
Czech Republic 3 180
Turkey 4 180
Romania 4 275
Hungary 3 0

The procedure and the conditions of the reimbursement are described here.
Please read it carefully and if you have questions, contact us in advance.
Amounts given are for return tickets between your place of living and Alsótold.
The amount of your reimbursement will be calculated based on the distance between you legal address and the venue of the program.
The limit can be less then the amounts indicated above but not more.
We reimburse public transport tickets and taxi costs from Budapest or from cities where you change transportation only if they fit into your limit and
you bring invoices.

If you have any further question

you can contact

Lili Madarász

on fusionforcreativity@gmail.com.

We are looking forward

to see you in Hungary!

Egyesek Youth Association