Timetable
10:00 -11:00: Preparatory work – breath, body, voice, rhythm, improvisation
11:15 -13:00 : Individual work and work in 2 groups
1) Vocal training with David : 2) Work on texts, songs and improvisations with Beñat
Lunch break: 13:00 -15:00
15:00 - 15:45: Group singing (traditional and polyphonic songs)
16:00 -17:30: Laboratory towards the interpretation of songs and texts, and improvisation

Saturday evening: concert given by Beñat Achiary with student participation.
Beñat Achiary*(Guest teacher) – singer, poet and improviser with an international reputation
information: www.musicme.com/Benat-Achiary/

Workshop finishes at 13:00 on Sunday 8 March

Level required: The workshop is open to anyone with some basic vocal experience, (song, improvisation etc. but without any need to be an experienced singer or musician).
The approach requires above all for participants to be open - to others, to themselves and to the spirit of creative research.

About the workshop: Beñat and David's complementary style of teaching will help to expand your voice beyond its habitual limits. By mastering breath and vocal registers, you will discover a wider range of colours, expressions, emotions and find new freedom for the creative and personal interpretation of songs, texts, and vocal improvisation.

Content
Precise training and exercises to

develop breath and extend vocal registers
work on singing technique
work on vocal dynamic, musicality, rhythm, colour, expression, fluidity
interpretation of songs and texts
improvisation
learn some traditional and polyphonic songs

Bring some personal working material (song, poem, text) and strong shoes. If the weather permits, the work will be taken out in the beautiful Cevenol hills! Musicians are welcome to bring their instruments.

For more information, please contact David Goldsworthy (rf.oodanaw@yhtrowsdlogd)

Directed by Ivan Midderigh with Siobhàn McCann* (guest teacher)

This workshop is postponed. More informations soon.

Through a structured series of exercises, combining the disciplines of the Roy Hart Theatre voice, body, and imagination work, this workshop will draw out the individual’s inherent communication skills and serve as an introduction to the art of signature storytelling. Participants will embark on a ‘river of life’ journey to explore their personal experience, uncover their origin stories, and embody them, in order to tell them with presence and vocal confidence. The mornings will be focused on voice and body work and the afternoons on stories and the art of storytelling.

Following registration, please send a letter of motivation to moc.cam@hgireddim.navi

The workshop will be taught in English with translation into French if needed.

Directed by Marianne Le Tron & Johannes Theron

This workshop is cancelled.

All “HUMAN VOICE” workshops are open to all and focus on the fundamental elements of Roy Hart Theatre voice work:
– Development of vocal potential.
– Theatrical and musical improvisations.
– Individual work in small groups.
– Breathing and physical exercises to prepare the body to sing.
– The art of listening to others and oneself.
– Seeking the dynamic sources of sounds

Directed by Laurent Stephan with Philippe Fagnot* (guest teacher)

This workshop is cancelled.

Roy Hart Theatre voice work will be underpinned by theatrical exploration via different types of masks. Participants will discover new colours in their voice through the universal, timeless and extraordinary tool of the mask.

After beginning with the neutral mask (which completely covers the face, invites a real commitment of the whole body and puts us in a state of readiness), we will approach the half-mask larval mask (so defined by Jacques Lecoq), which frees the lower part of the face and thus the voice. Using movement, breath, preverbal sounds and grammelot, the student will give life to - and become - a creature. The Commedia dell'arte half-mask will then allow us to work with all the different vocal colours of both speech and song. Exploring the visceral link connecting each character to an animal, and focussing on different resonators (head, nose, palate, throat, chest voices...) we will access a 'jeu d'acteur' beyond the bounds of pure realism.

The work on these archetypal characters will be creative. It will allow participants to develop their presence and authenticity without losing the link between body and voice.

This workshop is cancelled.

If singing is doing and silence is being, the aim of this workshop is to experience the importance of both – in both through listening.

This workshop is cancelled.

How we move and think and react is often influenced by habit. Though we need those habits to function in daily life, some of them stand in our way and limit us in our range of movement and possibilities to react, to think, to decide, to deal with emotions.

Unconsciously over time these habits manifest themselves in shortened muscles or in using too much effort in movements and other activities - singing for example.

Alexander Technique helps us to become conscious of those habits and to unlearn them in a gentle and mindful way, thus enabling freer movement and activity, which in turn leads to natural poise and increased vitality.

There is a slender link between Alexander Technique and Roy Hart’s concept of singing that dates back to the early 1970s.

Directed by Saule Ryan & Emanuela Lazzerini

This workshop is cancelled.

All “HUMAN VOICE” workshops are open to all and focus on the fundamental elements of Roy Hart Theatre voice work:
– Development of vocal potential.
– Theatrical and musical improvisations.
– Individual work in small groups.
– Breathing and physical exercises to prepare the body to sing.
– The art of listening to others and oneself.
– Seeking the dynamic sources of sounds