Haptic songs:
And if our voices had skins?
Voice work and Dance Improvisation
with Irena Tomazin (Slovenia)
& Asaf Bachrach (France/Israel)
(bilingual workshop Eng/FR)
It matters what bodies make voices and what voices make bodies, what voices make worlds, and what worlds have a voice
( in hommage to Donna Haraway)
In the workshop we will meet ourselves and each other differently from how we know ourselves in everyday life, through discovering the many diverse voices that are kept in our body and the many diverse bodies our voices create.
Voicing is about making waves, moving the space/world we are part of. This perturbation or agitation is in the heart of what improvisation is all about. When we improvise we come into contact with a world that is resonating with our movement; resonance as relation, relation as resonance.
The week long process (in the studio and outdoors) will include voice work, dance improvisation, and somatic attunement. The work will unfold our voices through intense physical and breathing exercises, through different types of massaging the body and positioning it in order to listen and hear the stream of emotions while opening the body resonators. Working with breathing and deep relaxation, we will resonate with and listen to our voice, arriving to our own rhythms and melodies which we organically carry within us. This experimentation with sound will make space for different facets and stories to emerge and be amplified within the shared space. By moving the space with our own voices, we will gain the sensation of how we can touch our surroundings and the others through sound.
In the dance improvisation sessions we will explore, through contact improvisation, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Score and somatic practices (Rolfing, Feldenkrais..) the multitude of voices of movement in and of space, in and of the world, in and of the body.
program (Monday through Saturday):
7-8 morning practices
8-9 breakfast
9-10 community work
10-13 morning session
16-19 afternoon session
evenings: jams/sing alongs/performances
Free afternoon on Thursday
Price:
450-550 euros (sliding scales according to one's means) all inclusive (workshop, accommodations in a dormitory or a tent, all meals)
location:
larret-a-venir.frmore info:
studio.larret@gmail.comregistration:
https://forms.gle/3nbJDgtsyCMx1qDg6