Centre Artistique International Roy Hart

Welcome to the Centre Artistique International ROY HART

Since 1974 the ROY HART CENTRE at Malérargues in the Cévennes hills of southern France has been dedicated to vocal research, and to its application in life and art. It is the centre of the international network of Roy Hart Theatre voice studies and holds workshops all year round that attract students from throughout the world. The work at the Centre is based on a history of more than 80 years of research, study and practice of the human voice without boundaries.
This video has been posted with the kind permission of Clément Caudal

This video has been posted with the kind permission of Clément Caudal

Upcoming Workshops – Winter 2021/2022

15.01.22-16.01.22

Open to all

The Rooted Voice (Canceled)

Directed by Laurent STEPHAN

Price150 €

Participants:10

Level:Open to all

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Hours : Saturday : 14h/18h30 and Sunday : 9h30/12h30 et 14h/16h30

DESCRIPTION

Objectives :

- Become aware of your breathing and develop the breath-body-voice link.

- Connecting to your body sensations in relaxation and letting go

- Broaden the palette of your voice: timbres, colors, resonance, registers...

- Travelling and improvising with your voice, around the imagination and emotions

- Develop your own listening skills

- Sing with confidence taking your place in the group in the pleasure of sharing and giving.

Contents :

- Body exercises, relaxation, massages, anchoring...

- Breathing opening exercises

and vocal warm-up

- Vocal games, individual or collective improvisations, work on the imaginary.

- Exercises on space and movement

- Learning simple songs

Provide flexible clothing for body work.

We work without shoes, on a wooden floor: barefoot, in dancing shoes or socks.

Beginners, advanced singers and voice professionals are welcome and our approach means that everyone will find the right shoes for them!

Thank you for registering as soon as possible, to facilitate our organization (the workshop will be cancelled in case there is less than 4 participants).

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Registration

Please note that a place in a workshop or course is only confirmed after recept of a deposit. Please send the enrolment form with a deposit of 120 euros for the workshop plus the total for accommodation, if you have booked a place in a gîte at Malérargues. Bookings will be taken into account only when full payment has been received. The prices shown for the workshops, unless otherwise noted, are for the courses only: food is not provided unless also specified. The deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is one month before the start date of a course or workshop. We regret that no re-imbursments of deposits can be made after this date. Prior to this date, the deposit will be re-imbursed less 30 euros for administrative costs. The Centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop if there are not enough participants. In this case the deposit will be fully re-funded. If you are reserving by the e-mail form below, please be sure to send your deposit on the same day as you send the form. We will temporarily hold you a place for four days. The CAIRH being an association, all workshop participants must be members. The membership fee is €20 per year. [/vc_column_text]

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The Rooted Voice (Canceled)

( J0115VE )
20.01.22-23.01.22

Open to all

SOUND BODY POETRY

Directed by Susanne WEINS

Price330 €

Participants:12

Level:Open to all

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Directed by Susanne WEINS with Viviane GAY (assistant)

9h30-12h30 & 14h-17h
Sunday from 9h-13h

A short, intensive 3.5-days journey through the poetic world of physical discoveries, transformed into sound,
space, time and living expression of your hidden creative vitality.
A work on the spoken voice, the singing voice, a present body available for expression. A way of listening and
understanding how our whole being can express itself.
Movement, BodyMind, Energy, Polirythm, Colour of voices, Resonance, singing in space, language and Poetry.

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Registration

Please note that a place in a workshop or course is only confirmed after recept of a deposit. Please send the enrolment form with a deposit of 120 euros for the workshop plus the total for accommodation, if you have booked a place in a gîte at Malérargues. Bookings will be taken into account only when full payment has been received. The prices shown for the workshops, unless otherwise noted, are for the courses only: food is not provided unless also specified. The deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is one month before the start date of a course or workshop. We regret that no re-imbursments of deposits can be made after this date. Prior to this date, the deposit will be re-imbursed less 30 euros for administrative costs. The Centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop if there are not enough participants. In this case the deposit will be fully re-funded. If you are reserving by the e-mail form below, please be sure to send your deposit on the same day as you send the form. We will temporarily hold you a place for four days. The CAIRH being an association, all workshop participants must be members. The membership fee is €20 per year. [/vc_column_text]

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SOUND BODY POETRY

( J0120PC )
26.02.22-27.02.22

Open to all

THE ROOTED VOICE

Directed by Laurent STEPHAN

Price150 €

Participants:10

Level:Open to all

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(this week end is independent from the others week ends with the same title: it is possible to register for one or several courses)

Saturday : 14h/18h30 and Sunday 9h30/12h30 et 14h/16h30

DESCRIPTION

Objectives :

- Become aware of your breathing and develop the breath-body-voice link.

- Connecting to your body sensations in relaxation and letting go

- Broaden the palette of your voice: timbres, colors, resonance, registers...

- Travelling and improvising with your voice, around the imagination and emotions

- Develop your own listening skills

- Sing with confidence taking your place in the group in the pleasure of sharing and giving.

Contents :

- Body exercises, relaxation, massages, anchoring...

- Breathing opening exercises

and vocal warm-up

- Vocal games, individual or collective improvisations, work on the imaginary.

- Exercises on space and movement

- Learning simple songs

Provide flexible clothing for body work.

We work without shoes, on a wooden floor: barefoot, in dancing shoes or socks.

Beginners, advanced singers and voice professionals are welcome and our approach means that everyone will find the right shoes for them!

Thank you for registering as soon as possible, to facilitate our organization (the workshop will be cancelled in case there is less than 4 participants).

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Registration

Please note that a place in a workshop or course is only confirmed after recept of a deposit. Please send the enrolment form with a deposit of 120 euros for the workshop plus the total for accommodation, if you have booked a place in a gîte at Malérargues. Bookings will be taken into account only when full payment has been received. The prices shown for the workshops, unless otherwise noted, are for the courses only: food is not provided unless also specified. The deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is one month before the start date of a course or workshop. We regret that no re-imbursments of deposits can be made after this date. Prior to this date, the deposit will be re-imbursed less 30 euros for administrative costs. The Centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop if there are not enough participants. In this case the deposit will be fully re-funded. If you are reserving by the e-mail form below, please be sure to send your deposit on the same day as you send the form. We will temporarily hold you a place for four days. The CAIRH being an association, all workshop participants must be members. The membership fee is €20 per year. [/vc_column_text]

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THE ROOTED VOICE

( J0226VE )
15.03.2022-20.03.2022

Voice In Artistic Expression (Group 2021/2022) (FULL)

Directed by Walli HOEFINGER & Edda HEEG

Price

Participants:

Level:

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Workshop full. Last module.

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Please note that a place in a workshop or course is only confirmed after recept of a deposit. Please send the enrolment form with a deposit of 120 euros for the workshop plus the total for accommodation, if you have booked a place in a gîte at Malérargues. Bookings will be taken into account only when full payment has been received. The prices shown for the workshops, unless otherwise noted, are for the courses only: food is not provided unless also specified. The deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is one month before the start date of a course or workshop. We regret that no re-imbursments of deposits can be made after this date. Prior to this date, the deposit will be re-imbursed less 30 euros for administrative costs. The Centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop if there are not enough participants. In this case the deposit will be fully re-funded. If you are reserving by the e-mail form below, please be sure to send your deposit on the same day as you send the form. We will temporarily hold you a place for four days. The CAIRH being an association, all workshop participants must be members. The membership fee is €20 per year. [/vc_column_text]

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Voice In Artistic Expression (Group 2021/2022) (FULL)

( J0315VE )

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General Assembly convocation

The General Assembly of the CAIRH will occur on November 28 2021 at 3pm, french time (CET- central european time) via Zoom. According to the statutes, only Active Members and Associate Members who are up to date with their membership fees for year 2021 will be able to take part in voting. Adherent Members who wish to attend are welcome. Cordially, The Conseil

Workshops in Malérargues and around the world

Roy Hart Voice Workshops in Malérargues are held mainly between March and November. During that season there are also performances, open rehearsals, social events to attend.

Advanced Training to deepen the work is offered in different formats: Intensive Workshops over a longer period of time and Teacher Training Groups.

Internationally a vivid network of voice teachers descended from the work of Roy Hart Theatre, we also announce these workshops here.

See Workshops in Malérargues
See Workshops outside Malérargues
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Resources

SO MUCH MORE THAN MUSIC (Articles)
DARK VOICES:THE GENESIS OF ROY HART THEATER (Books)
THEATER OF BEING (Video)
Tenderness as Strength in Vocal Development (Articles)
THE SPIRIT OF TECHNIQUE (Articles)
Ways to the voice / Wege zur stimme - excerpts (Books)
THE TRANSMISSION OF ALFRED WOLFSOHN'S LEGACY TO ROY HART (Articles)
A Little Book of Voice (Books)
VOICE IN PERFORMANCE ART (Video)
“OWNING OUR VOICES” (Books)
ROY HART THEATER IN MALÉRARGUES (Books)
IF ... (Video)
YOUR OWN VOICE IN LIFE AND ART (Articles)
FINDING YOUR VOICE (Articles)
DEEP SONG – A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO ECSTATIC VOICE AND THE ART OF VOCAL LAMENTATION  (2015,Articles)
"Alfred Wolfsohn: Banishing the Stench of the World" (Video)
THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE VOICE: A BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED WOLFSOHN (Books)
Vocal Traditions: The Roy Hart Tradition (Articles)

See all the publications

Singing is not just a question of vocal technique. It is a dynamic artistic and human process, an opening to oneself and the world - an intensive work which involves, effort, discipline, humility and the capacity to look and listen.

David Goldsworthy
At the Roy Hart Centre, we learn from workshops, from passionate discussions over meals with fellow students, from conversing with nature, and the place itself, which has a soul of its own. At Malérargues, the apprenticeship is constant.

Maryline Guitton
Malérargues was built on a dream of a remarkable man, Roy Hart, and some exceptional people who worked with him.

Linda Wise
Singing is Connection: to self, to others, to the world.

Phil Timberlake
To find your VOICE is to find your WAY! Unite body and voice to find the upright human being. Go beyond what you thought were your limits, feed your internal music to express your true voice without cheating or pretence.

Michèle Laforest
For me, the philosophy of the Roy Hart work begins with Alfred Wolfsohn. His lifework inspired us to find a new world. The soul of singing, the music in each one of us, needs careful listening, observation and empathy: these are my hard worked-for aims.
Kaya M. Anderson
A smiling field full of contradictions, fear and love, sadness and happiness, emptiness and fullness…, resistance, freedom, letting go, releasing. Always a challenge, always good. Finding the pleasure. Finding myself, myself in others. Unity.

Nuria Inglada
Singing is breath moved by feeling when words no longer hold their meaning ... and given time, singing moves life into greater meaning especially as the world loses touch with its feeling.

Clara Silber
Dancing my voice and singing my dance brings me in direct contact with my inner space.

Rosemarie Anton
Singing, as defined by Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart, is an extraordinary idealistic and demanding proposal – I am especially interested in its Talmudic backdrop. Protestant enthusiasm often takes over: its cult is also called singing. This, from a baroque, neopagan ‘goy’.

Enrique Pardo
"Singing" happens when a person’s whole body, senses and imagination are totally engaged in creating vocal sound, whilst focusing on a given note, image or word. This requires many hours of dedicated work with a teacher who is able to "sing".

Noah Pikes
The quality of listening I have found in Malérargues is the most sensitive I have ever experienced, without any kind of judgement or expectation. Malérargues is the place where you can accept your vulnerability and find the power of your voice.

Jesús Muñoz
Awe says in the video of his lesson to Roy, “more body” - this is the Key to the work. Everyone thinks they have a body, but in reality they only have a head. What does the ear hear when there is more body? The answer to this takes time and care.

Paul Silber
Our voices are very much bigger than we think, certainly bigger than we normally use, and there is a profound connection between our voice and our self, which is in turn very much bigger than we realise or normally admit to.

Ian Magilton
When I truly sound, my real whole-range voice, ‘I’ cease to exist: all the voices of judgement, classification, evaluation… disappear and I’m truly one with the world.

Orly Asody Bergman
The voice for me is a necessity that goes below speech and beyond the song. It is a return to the raw material of the voice, a subterranean and atavistic space little touched on in art.

Daniela Molina
For me, singing is connection, self-knowledge, accuracy, expression, wisdom.

Paula Molinari
For me flying is the best metaphor for singing. In order to soar up to the sky we need a great hold on the ground, good energy, a lot of confidence, relaxation and vigour. Then, we can find a way to open up to imagination...

Renata Roagna
Singing is a way to connect through the voice. Listen with the soul into the body – or with the body into the soul. The voice makes it all audible.
Walli Höfinger
There is nothing that gets you closer to your-self than your voice, there is nothing that gets you closer to the Other, then The voice.

Zwaantje de Vries
I follow my intuition in the moment, based on what I perceive to be the need of each student's unique voice. I guide people to connect with their creative impulses, accepting the sound “just as it is," and expressing what their voices have to say.

Audrey Pernell
Malérargues is a magical place charged with invisible energy from all the years of voice work - the ground from which we can take off, grow and sing life itself.

Esther Knappe
Malérargues is my second home. When I think of it, I remember sharing deep times with my dear friends Robert, Marita, Jonathan. It is the navel of the world, the mother-house of this really unique and beautiful exploration of the voice and being.

Susanne Weins
The voice has become my life companion, my gauge of personal and artistic work, my inspiration. And I love to share them .

Marianne Le Tron
The heart, soul, and body hunger for deep expressions – of joy, yearning, grief, ecstasy, pain, uncertainty, purpose. This vocal journey thrives on listening, searching, play, risk and ultimately, the discovery of form and ease.

Marya Lowry
“Singing“ is an inclusive term for me that covers any action that involves vocal expression. It is inclusive in the sense that it seeks to renegotiate our perceptions both of ourselves and others. Its primary aim is one of communication on all levels.

Kevin Crawford
Singing in Malérargues means to grow your sound body, free your deepest inner being, tame the unknown of your self. It is to commune with yourself and with others.

Agnès Dumouchel
How did a bunch of baby boomers come to own an amazing place like Château de Malérargues and its thirty or so hectares? Because of the charisma of Roy Hart, and thanks to the financial intrepidness of his friend Davide Monty Crawford. The rest, in all modesty, is small print.

Enrique Pardo
Singing is ex-pression. For me to sing is to free the voice, by releasing the body and its tensions and listening to one’s feelings and deep emotions, one’s essential being.

Odile Gence
Singing is a personal sound form, just like your physical body.

Ulrik Barfod
A suspended moment of sound coming from lived experience: dreams, thoughts, opinions, emotions, sensations, nourished by pleasures and conflicts. Past and future become present in sound leaving the body, sound coming into oneself.

Andrés Zará
Singing is taking pleasure in vibrating, with a desire to express oneself freely.

Miguel Alonso Gutierrez
Moving while sounding, sounding while moving. We are exploring the unknown, and there is no end in sight. I have never heard a bad voice.

Akhmatova Samuels
Singing for me is breathing in with my ears and my soul – and breathing out this inspiration with my voice.

Edda Heeg
Singing: The opening and liberation of the individual’s potential through singing, in connecting with the conscious awareness of the moment in the Here and Now. “Concentration, intensity, expression".

Alfred Wolfsohn
“ Singing“ allows me to dynamically explore many different qualities of sound, so that with time my capacity to express myself both as a singer and as a human being is enhanced. More in touch with myself and my voice I can be more in touch with others.

Saule Ryan
"The voice is the muscle of the soul."

Alfred Wolfsohn
Malérargues is a safe place for letting the voice turn the soul inside out, touching secret memories hidden in the body and give them rhythm, music and meaning.

Fia Adler Sandblad
Singing for me means connecting with my intimate self. Being entwined with my breath, life’s breath, the breath of living beings. Merging with distant echoes from my deepest hiding place. Surprising myself, huddling down into my own resonances.

Mathilde Fabre
“Learning how to sing is learning how to love.“

Alfred Wolfsohn
Malérargues is for me the beautiful and important heart of the Roy Hart community. It is the meeting place for people who have experienced a Roy Hart moment that made such an impact on them that it created a longing for more.

Mariane Siem
I find a joy that's always renewed in the emergence of a sound, of a voice - like the pleasure I find in the appearance of light. I enjoy shadow also: the velvet of a voice, the depth as well as the metal, the curves of the voice.
Pascale Ben
To resound in life: the emotive voice
Albino Bignamini
In Singing we appreciate ourselves, the world, nature and the people who are with us.

Yehudi Menuhin
Singing is my sounding wings unfolded. Malérargues is a link to singing myself back home.

Emanuella Lazzerini
Malérargues: A place to find oneself

Nadine Rodilla
To sing for me is an act of freedom, letting go, connecting to my emotions, my physical sensations and my whole being. Singing makes me deeply alive.

Veronique Caudal
The Roy Hart Theatre approach works at the nexus of body, voice, self-knowledge, theatre and music. This exploration allows us to build bridges and increase unity within ourselves.

Laurent Stéphan