POSTPONED TO 2021

A two-week professional, residential, workshop-festival, in two parts. You can participate in one or both weeks.

Directed by Enrique Pardo and Linda Wise, with workshops in Voice Performance, Singing and Choreographic Theatre - with a wide array of collaborators and invited artists, performers, musicians and lecturers. Full information and registration directly at: www.pantheatre.com/gb/2-MT20-gb.html

June 23 to 28 : classes in voice performance and choreographic theatre, plus preparatory cultural talks

June 30 to July 5 : laboratories, master classes, lectures and performances

The work focuses on performance: giving form to the voice. Acoustic form, corporal form, dramaturgical form. An artful voice should both move and speak to us. Gaston Bachelard wrote The Poetics of Air. For us, it would be not only the airs we sing, but also those we move in, and those we ‘put on’: performance.

Fees

Registation dates & fees 2 weeks 1 week
23 - 28 / 06 30/06 - 5/07

Donor Fee 950€ - 500€

Full Fee 750€ - 400€

Bona fide & in training 600€ - 350€

Active members 400€ - 300€

Full information and registration directly at: www.pantheatre.com/gb/2-MT20-gb.html

Theme : Superstition / A Performance Take
“Listening to the voice in speech is what thinking is all about” (Giorgio Agamben): possibly the most apt and exacting definition of the voice. Such listening (and understanding of the voice) is a sharp-eared, high-risk, keen and sagacious adventure, full of emotion and ancestral figures. And those are precisely the terms with which we want to approach a (re)definition of what superstition is, or should be.

It is now up to us to build the bridge with what Roy Hart called 'the voice of eight octaves', or 'the muscle of the soul' - and to do so with a 'performance take'.

Superstition is possibly the riskiest and most complex theme the festival has taken on. Created in 1987 at Malérargues, the festival moved for 10 years to La Chartreuse de Villeneuve les Avignon, to then travel to New Orleans, Ireland, Granada. Themes included Dionysus, Aphrodite, Nekyia, Psyche and Eros, and many others. In 2005, it returned to Malérargues, for a series on Myths of the Voice. In 2019 it was Luck: 'You are a shaman as long as your luck lasts'. See Festival History: www.pantheatre.com/gb/2-MT-gb.html

Carol Mendelsohn and Saule Ryan are offering a replacement workshop for the Voice Symposium from July 1-July 5, 2020: “The Voice That Touches”.

Importance will be given to the art of listening: listening to each other, listening to our own voice, listening above all to the infinite shades of what lies behind the voice. It is the stretching of our aural sensitivity which is so important in our work.

We will respect the restrictions due to the spread of Covid19. Bring your own yoga mat if you like.

Schedule: 10AM-13PM and 3PM-5PM.

Mornings: Physical and vocal warm. Singing lessons in 2 groups. Afternoons: Videos, history, pedagogy of the Voice work, atelier, polyphonic singing.

Please refer to the Office for information on housing at Malérargues or outside individual housing.

For more infos about the workshop, write an email to Carol Mendelsohn: moc.liamtoh@nhoslednemlorac

This workshop is cancelled.

The singing voice and spoken voice are inseparable. We will explore how they are linked through work on the body, breath, and voice, and by exploring vocal range, all at the service of the vocal imagination of each participant. Bring a text and a song of your choice for creative and recreational laboratory work.

Timetable : 9h30-12h30 /14h30-16h30

Saturday : 9h à 13h

In this morning workshop we will be exploring the creative potential of the human voice.

There will be group work with body, breathing and voice exercises, text and music improvisations and polyphonic singing. We will also work in two small groups for the individual work.

This workshop is open to beginners to discover their own vocal potential and also to advanced performers to explore the extended voice in their own expression.

This workshop will explore the connection between voice and movement. You will explore how body movements impact voice movements and vice versa. You will focus on listening trustfully to your own body, in relation to others and to space. This invites dialogues without words, using our voices and bodies… singing, sounding, dancing, improvising. You will deepen the awareness of body sensations, listen to your body's impulses and explore your own voice. We will include work on flow, rhythm, grounding, letting go, instant composition and body architectures. Each day will include warm-ups, group lessons with the piano and creative workshops.

All the days 10h-13h + 15h- 18h / Sunday 10h-13h

"From the beginning, I have only danced my life.»
Isadora Duncan
Our voice, too, is sensitive to context. It also has things to express, to sing, whisper, scream. This workshop arises from the need to let our voices express themselves with all their possibilities and limits; with all their dreams and desires... today

Through the expressive conjunction of voice and movement and a work that mixes technique and imagination we invite our voice to embody a vocal dance.

Isadora Duncan used to say "to dance is to express one's inner life". The voice also offers us this possibility, a space of research to find our vocal personality and the public intimacy of our voice.

We will work in particular on three axes, exploring the links between:
- The body and the voice.
- Musicality, singing and vocal improvisation.
- Voice and speech.

The workshop will consist of physical warm-ups, a strong emphasis on individual and collective vocal exploration, and text work.

Focus:
Bodywork – Movement & Voice, Creation, Human Voice, Improvisation, Music & Composition, Performance Laboratory, Song & Interpretation, Theater & Textwork, Vocal Exploration
Workshop Description:
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

From body to breath, from breath to voice, from voice to singing - through space and silence, through imagination and emotion.

For you to find your body's individual tonic balance, we will propose eutonic exercises. Eutony is a body practice that is based on the observation and awareness of our sensations. This will enable you to open up in the present moment allowing your voice to follow its intuition and sense of playfulness.

Morning: work on basic elements of 'human voice' with a particular focus on the relation between voice and movement. Individual lessons in small groups will alternate with group sessions so you can discover the freedom, range and expressive potential of your singing voice.

Afternoon: exploration and improvisation based on vocal imagination and world songs. You will be able to play with sounds, words, atmospheres and let spontaneous melodies emerge. Open to all, the ability to read music is not required.

Let your voice lead you to your music!

In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to discover what 'music' means within your voice, and how to allow your own music to emerge.

We will explore individually and collectively, tuning into our shared human need for song and words: to express, connect, create, and enjoy the pleasure of singing together and sharing the musicality of language. Through guided vocal and musical improvisations, we will travel to different 'places', new territory in our voices beyond the areas that we habitually use. When we allow ourselves to experiment, observe, and accept these vocal worlds without expectation, we can develop the capacity to feel intuitively where our voice wants to go. In this way, we learn to 'follow the voice' and its creative impulses toward the melodies and stories hidden within the sound. In the same way we can make a journey through a text, discovery its secret voices, and let it resound through us.

Follow your voice… discover your music.

The workshop will include physical and vocal preparation, individual lessons, and group dynamics, both a cappella, and with cello accompaniment.

Prior musical training is not required.

For more information about the workshop, please contact Christiane Hommelsheim and Kevin Crawford:
Christiane Hommelsheim: ed.miehslemmohenaitsirhc@liam
Kevin Crawford: moc.liamg@eciovdrofwarcnivek

In this workshop we aim to explore each individual’s creative space through voice and dance, following the thread of emotions and images and giving them expression. We will work in studios, with time for individual work, and also outside, taking inspiration from the countryside around us. How are voice and movement affected by nature and the elements – for example down by the river or by the light of the rising sun? And how can we best integrate these influences in our own creativity? When we work out of doors, we may have different working hours.

Time Schedule 9 h-12 h / 17.30-20h

Sunday 10-13 / 14.30-17h

Singing outside a musical frame. Feel your human existence through your sounds.

The themes covered by the human voice workshops will be explored and developed, and you will be encouraged to extend your range of vocal expression applied to speech, song, and texts, and explore many different voice qualities - sounds, tones and colours. Drawing on breathing and body training, allow your voice the freedom to roam and express your full potential. Come and create your own music not only to feel greater closeness to yourself but also feed the collective creative process. Bring texts, songs, or any other material that inspires you.

Enrique has invited Kaya to participate in a dialogue of work and ideas around Psyché sur Scène.

In recent years, Kaya and Enrique have had a series of substantive dialogues: Kaya as a direct depositary of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart, and Enrique, who has travelled far and wide in artistic terms and remains a militant defender of the ideals of Roy Hart. One fundamental point connects them: the essential presence of the psyche/soul/anima on stage. The aim would be to finish up with 'les langues de bois' ie double talk (vocal, spoken, philosophical).

'Few people have commented on my voice and choreographical theatre work as Kaya has done: its acuity, its priorities and the strong echoes it holds of Roy Hart's thinking. Also the questions it asks. Never just empty words.

In this workshop Kaya will have carte blanche to intervene, give master classes - indeed, participate with a text of her choosing. Two assistant teachers will also participate and give voice and movement lessons.

A maximum of 14 participants. Anyone may apply for this workshop by providing a brief CV and letter of motivation. Places will be confirmed as soon as possible and no later than 10 May, 2020

In this workshop we will focus on recapturing 'music', out of the hands of the specialists of form and culture, trusting your intuitive competence in music, making it your own, finding your own sense of music, beyond virtuosity and style. You will have the opportunity to explore what 'music' means within your voice, and how to allow your own music to emerge.

The workshop will include deep physical and vocal preparation, individual lessons and group improvisation where we will play with the connection of voice and body and voice and perception. We will move into new territory for our voices, beyond the areas that we habitually use, and enjoy the pleasure of singing together!

This workshop is open to all.

An intensive experimental workshop of 36 hours in 6 days of group and individual work, with an emphasis on the relationship between body, movement and voice. Exploring what moves us, our voices and our bodies. This workshop will include deep bodywork, improvisations, text and singing work.

A relaxed body is a marvelous instrument from which the voice can open up and flourish in all its richness, the creative force express itself without hindrance. However our vocal and creative impulses sometimes break up against physical or emotional obstacles.

Whatever the origin of these bonds, they manifest themselves in our body in the form of tensions. To untie them and recover a free (and happy) voice and body, we will use Gerda Boyesen's biodynamic massages, based on Wilhelm Reich's work on the body armour. These massages act on various parts of the body important to our vocal work - diaphragm, back (secondary muscles of breathing) among others. They dissolve tensions, release blocked energy and also free the breath, the voice, imagination, our capacity for expression.

Mornings will be devoted to this physical preparation. In the afternoon, you will have the opportunity to explore your liberated voices individually and together.

Véronique and Maryline invite you to take a step on the path of vocal improvisation – a path of self-knowledge, leading to a deeper, more authentic relationship with yourself, with others, with the world. Both are singers and improvisers and they will accompany you as you allow your inner music to be expressed through improvised singing.

This workshop will provide a time and space where you can open up to your breathing, to your emotions and sensory perceptions, and to the images and stories of your imagination. As you release any preconceptions about your voice and your body, you will find yourself “surfing” the waves of your deepest self while also nourishing and enhancing the group expression.

In this space of artistic freedom, as we develop our listening, deepen our presence and savour the pleasure of sounding, musical inspiration will reveal itself. Mindful in the moment of what wants or needs to be said or to be sung, and sharing our “aliveness” in the present moment, we will give expression to our limitless vocal potential.

The workshop will include physical and vocal warm-ups, individual and group lessons, vocal exploration, meditations, improvisations on various themes (melody, rhythm, instruments, etc.).

9h-12h30 and 14h30-17h30 (from tuesday to saturday)

9h-12h30( sunday)

Focus:
Bodywork – Movement & Voice, Creation, Human Voice, Improvisation, Music & Composition, Performance Laboratory, Song & Interpretation, Theater & Textwork, Vocal Exploration

Workshop Description:
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

Focus:
Bodywork – Movement & Voice, Creation, Human Voice, Improvisation, Music & Composition, Performance Laboratory, Song & Interpretation, Theater & Textwork, Vocal Exploration

Workshop Description:
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