Irina Baldini’s proprietary methodology, Accountable Temporary Expedients (ATE), serves as a framework for navigating choreographic composition in contemporary performance. Operating through structure and real-time response, ATE strips away pre-rehearsed choreography to challenge the habitual and expose performers’ inner workings as they deal with complex psycho-physical tasks. Central to this training is a specialized card-deck trigger system —a calibrated set of variable prompts inviting makers to make immediate, high-stakes creative choices. Through intensive Workshop models, Baldini trains contemporary performance makers to embrace states of doubt, confusion, and hyper-awareness. Participants learn to treat the ensemble not as a unified chorus, but as individual provocateurs executing unpredictable, disposable formulas. By learning to work with the ATE framework, artists develop an instinctual agility required to construct intentional, non-repeatable, yet accountable psycho-physical architectures in real time.
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WRITING and PUBLICATIONS about ATE
Emerging Underworld, Performing Ethos Journal, Intellect Books, 2025
Side FX, Research Catalogue 2022
Accountable Temporary Expedients, 4bid Gallery / Brave New Books 2022
Between a Kick and a Cuddle, Emergency Index 2021
Between a kick and a cuddle, A FLUID-METHODOLOGY BASED ON DOUBT AND CONFUSION, HoPP / ArtEZ 2021
Technologies of Digital Performance 2021
Performance Art Forum_Residency 2020
Dramaturgy through the lens of Poetics 2019
Research Prototype 2019
Low Content, Brave new Books 2018
We are in the same boat, 2012
Emergency Index 2012, Ugly Duckling Presse 2012
All the things this is nOT, AWA 2013
Ongoing performance, 2013
self interview and interview, Dokmo.se 2013
No-ting, ECCO Cadiz, 2013
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