Centre Artistique International Roy Hart

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
"The voice is the muscle of the soul."

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

Linda Wise
"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
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
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: 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
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
“ 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 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
For me, singing is connection, self-knowledge, accuracy, expression, wisdom.

Paula Molinari
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
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
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
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
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
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
Singing is taking pleasure in vibrating, with a desire to express oneself freely.

Miguel Alonso Gutierrez
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
Singing is Connection: to self, to others, to the world.

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

Edda Heeg
Malérargues: A place to find oneself

Nadine Rodilla
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
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
“Learning how to sing is learning how to love.“

Alfred Wolfsohn
Singing is my sounding wings unfolded. Malérargues is a link to singing myself back home.

Emanuella Lazzerini
Dancing my voice and singing my dance brings me in direct contact with my inner space.

Rosemarie Anton
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
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
To resound in life: the emotive voice
Albino Bignamini
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
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
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
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
In Singing we appreciate ourselves, the world, nature and the people who are with us.

Yehudi Menuhin
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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

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.

24 - 28 January 2019 :The Bordeaux Bègles Génération
Year Group 2019/20 :Voice In Artistic Expression by E. Heeg and W. Höfinger
Apr./Jul./Sept. 2019 :Advanced Pedagogic Group - Dates 2019
July 30th 2018 :Roy Hart Center General Assembly

August 10th 2017 :Celebration Béa
From March 2018 :Work exchange residence
December 17th 2017 :Workshops Calendar 2018 is now online
January 3rd 2018 :Moments of Truth movie crowdfunding

The next Year Group with Edda Heeg and Walli Höfinger starting in June 2019, is open for applications now!

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Upcoming Performances

The 2019 program is in progress.

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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.

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Resources

FINDING YOUR VOICE (Articles)
Ways to the voice / Wege zur stimme - excerpts (Books)
DARK VOICES:THE GENESIS OF ROY HART THEATER (Books)
SO MUCH MORE THAN MUSIC (Articles)
THE TRANSMISSION OF ALFRED WOLFSOHN'S LEGACY TO ROY HART (Articles)
DEEP SONG – A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO ECSTATIC VOICE AND THE ART OF VOCAL LAMENTATION  (2015,Articles)
VOICE IN PERFORMANCE ART (Video)
THE SPIRIT OF TECHNIQUE (Articles)
A Little Book of Voice (Books)
YOUR OWN VOICE IN LIFE AND ART (Articles)
THEATER OF BEING (Video)
ROY HART THEATER IN MALÉRARGUES (Books)
THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE VOICE: A BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED WOLFSOHN (Books)

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