JÍT NALEHKO ANEB JAPONSKÉ INSPIRACE
17. – 23. 8. 2026  | Klášter Broumov

Bohemiae Rosa
4. – 9. 8. 2026  | Bohemia FARMSTUDIO, Vysoká 26, Czech Republic led by Frank van de Ven & Milos Sejn



Since 1995 Milos Sejn and Frank van de Ven have co-operated in their bi-annual interdisciplinary open-air Body-Site-Exploration projects in various National & Cultural Reserves in the Czech Republic (Kokorin Valley, Plasy Monastery, Bohemian Karst, Bechyne Monastery with the Luznice River, Bohemian Paradise, Sumava and Krkonose Mountains, Kuks Spa) known as the Bohemiae Rosa Project 
 
After thirty years, we return once again to the landscape of the Kokorin Valley and its rock formations. It is a place with a profoundly deep cultural and historical legacy — a landscape shaped by figurative sandstone rocks, caves, valleys, winding brooks, forests, groves, meadows, and the evocative ruins of medieval castles.

Our point of departure, Bohemia FARMSTUDIO in Vysoka, which lies at the very heart of this territory, offers almost inexhaustible possibilities for contemporary artistic exploration, particularly in the field of contemporary (performing) arts. Rooted in the landscape itself, the site naturally invites interdisciplinary artistic practices, dialogue between nature and culture, and new forms of embodied, site-specific expression
The program will include:
•        MB - (mind/body, muscles/bones) movement training
•        practice of and reflection on physical and mental training
•        walking and wandering, silent walk, pilgrimage and nocturnal journeys
•        various modes of experiencing body, movement and landscape
•        investigating divergent senses of space and time
•        peripatetic records, drawing, writing, immediate contact with surroundings
•        mental topography of a location, myth, archaic mind and genius loci
•        geology, archaeology and history of the Landscape as a model of self: layers, vertical connections and labyrinths
 
An integral part of the workshop will be the individual artistic projects that participants are encouraged to formulate and work on for about 1 to 2 hours a day. (in the fields architecture, landscape art, dance, performance, photography, sculpture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history). The workshop leaders are available to guide and support these processes.
 
The body is a landscape in itself moving within the larger frame of the given surrounding environment. The vertical and horizontal layering of the (historical) landscape invites us to reflect upon our own layers and connections of self and imagination.

Participants profile: for artists and advanced students working in performance, dance, landscape art, sculpture, photography, architecture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history. Selection of participants will be based on c.v. and motivation.
No previous (dance) training is necessary but the workshop will be physically demanding. A good overall condition is required. 
Since 1995 Milos Sejn and Frank van de Ven have co-operated in their bi-annual interdisciplinary open-air Body-Site-Exploration projects in various National & Cultural Reserves in the Czech Republic (Kokorin Valley, Plasy Monastery, Bohemian Karst, Bechyne Monastery with the Luznice River, Bohemian Paradise, Sumava and Krkonose Mountains, Kuks Spa) known as the Bohemiae Rosa Project 
 
After thirty years, we return once again to the landscape of the Kokorin Valley and its rock formations. It is a place with a profoundly deep cultural and historical legacy — a landscape shaped by figurative sandstone rocks, caves, valleys, winding brooks, forests, groves, meadows, and the evocative ruins of medieval castles.

Our point of departure, Bohemia FARMSTUDIO in Vysoka, which lies at the very heart of this territory, offers almost inexhaustible possibilities for contemporary artistic exploration, particularly in the field of contemporary (performing) arts. Rooted in the landscape itself, the site naturally invites interdisciplinary artistic practices, dialogue between nature and culture, and new forms of embodied, site-specific expression
The program will include:
•        MB - (mind/body, muscles/bones) movement training
•        practice of and reflection on physical and mental training
•        walking and wandering, silent walk, pilgrimage and nocturnal journeys
•        various modes of experiencing body, movement and landscape
•        investigating divergent senses of space and time
•        peripatetic records, drawing, writing, immediate contact with surroundings
•        mental topography of a location, myth, archaic mind and genius loci
•        geology, archaeology and history of the Landscape as a model of self: layers, vertical connections and labyrinths
 
An integral part of the workshop will be the individual artistic projects that participants are encouraged to formulate and work on for about 1 to 2 hours a day. (in the fields architecture, landscape art, dance, performance, photography, sculpture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history). The workshop leaders are available to guide and support these processes.
 
The body is a landscape in itself moving within the larger frame of the given surrounding environment. The vertical and horizontal layering of the (historical) landscape invites us to reflect upon our own layers and connections of self and imagination.

Participants profile: for artists and advanced students working in performance, dance, landscape art, sculpture, photography, architecture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history. Selection of participants will be based on c.v. and motivation.
No previous (dance) training is necessary but the workshop will be physically demanding. A good overall condition is required. 
vá 26, Czech Republic
International Interdisciplinary Open-Air Workshop for artists and dancers exploring the relation between body, art and landscape
led by Frank van de Ven & Milos Sejn
Kokorin Vallley

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