Taming Our Trauma
Vision:
Taming Our Trauma is an art-science fusion model, with the aim to develop special communication structures and organizational culture by integrating the principles of trauma-informed organizations and trauma-informed care
into performing arts.
Mission:
Taming Our Trauma aspires to respond to the most urgent topics of the dance profession today, such as the need for well-being management, inclusive, tolerant environments, and solution-oriented processes.
Special focus:
Rehabilitating the art of the artists, dealing with traumas experienced during the pandemic and lockdown, as well as traumas encountered throughout the professional or personal life
SCIENTIFIC IMPUT
Taming our Trauma involves a clinical psychologist, a psychotherapist, a psychologist, and a neuroscientist/leadership coach.
They provide scientific knowledge, tools, and methods for the artists ,enabling them to embrace their own personal, professional, or cultural traumas, empowering the development of useful, beneficial and constructive habits.
CREATIVE PROCESS
Parallel to the lectures, presentations, individual coachings, trauma informed group coachings and consultations, a choreographic creation process is being conducted by Andreas Heise. The accumulated knowledge, the findings, experiences, and regular feedback are processed also artistically, and are incorporated in the dance creation through newly developed embodiment and non-verbal choreographic instruments.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
The intertwined activities related to mental health, communication and performing arts are being documented by photo- and videographer Pippa Samaya, the artists themselves and several researchers. The documentation is also being channelled back to the group coachings and to the choreographic events to foster creativity by generating further questions, encouraging answers in the experimental exploration.
Two movies are being made. A dance movie with documentary elements by Pippa Samaya and one documentary movie with dance film elements by Gabriella Bácskai and Lajos Danyi.
Trauma-informed approach for dance organizations
Beginnings of a model – Interview with Andreas Heise, choreograpic leader of the project Taming Our Trauma
“I am good in what I am doing”
Mind-Centering, Empowerment, and Motivation with Thomas Rohe
Having a CHOICE – Trauma-informed approach in theater
Short interview with István Simon, founder and CEO of Praetorian Art and Health
Our Team
Kristin Mente
Dance Artist
Pedro Henrique Ferreira
Dance Artist
Aya Sone
Dance Artist
Tomas Rohe
Dance Artist
Boglárka Simon-Hatala
Scientific Leader
Lilla Gerlinger
Clinical Psychologist
Seema Prakash
Counsellor / Psychologist
Terry Hyde
Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Andreas Heise
Choreographic Leader
Isolde Matkey
Manager
Katja Solbrig
Manager
István Simon
Project Leader
Taming Our Trauma is a model project, a co-production of Praetorian Non-Profit Art and Health Consulting and Tristan Productions
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative: aid program for dance.
