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 – Autumn 2021
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21.09.21-26.09.21Open to allFrom the voice to the word through sound (Canceled)Directed by Kevin Crawford & Caroline BoersmaPrice540 €Participants:10/12Level:Open to all[/vc_column]Back to Workshops Overview[/wpml_if]
[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]This workshop opens pathways to embodying text and finding the journey from sound to word through musicality and listening.
Morning warm ups followed by intensive small group sessions are an in-depth preparation, that sensitizes us to the alchemical bridge between the vocal and the verbal, the imagination and the sound.Afternoon ateliers give full rein to the material we have drawn up and offer us opportunities to expand our presence vocally, verbally and musically.
No prior musical knowledge is required.
Registration
[/vc_column]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]Accommodation
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[/vc_column]From the voice to the word through sound (Canceled)( H0921VP ) -
30.09.21-09.10.21AdvancedVOICING, TRACING (2021/2022) 1st moduleDirected by Susanne WEINS & Sašo VOLLMAIERPrice900 €Participants:12Level:Advanced[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]This workshop of 20 days a year, divided in 2 intense periods (2X10 days) will be a deepening pre-performative training towards performance, research and the present voice.
The Deepening subjects of this offer will be:
Researching the roots of voice and listening with:
Links to Alfred Wolfsohn and the approach of the Roy Hart theatre*, in order to the process of contemporary performative issues in connection to voice performance.
Tools of listening connected to the teaching of Marita Günther – her interpretation of Alfred Wolfsohn’s approach- and aspects of the invaluable experiences from Kaya Anderson and eventually of other founder members or Roy Hart Theater.
The depth and dimension of extended voice in range (horizontal) as well into the human depth (vertical), based on the lecture “Momentum” S.Weins Cologne 2013Approaching the voice in personal presence and contemporary erformance:
Voice, impulse and development
Colours, timbre, dimensions and flexibility of voice
Voice in/out active body
Voice within musical dialogues, imaginative or other inspiring processes
Voice leading the awareness into the sources of personal creation.
Dialog as a general source to bring human expression into an appreciative aesthetic context.
The cruel and beautiful poetry of non-verbal expression and being.Another approach to body, movement, grounding(support system), and the dimensions of space:
Learning about body-mind and breathing.
Vital breath.
Present sound
Full physical support
Including the aspects of Body-Mind-Centering (BMC), F.M. Alexandertechnique and other voice/ body Performance tools.Receiving the magic about moment, timing and expression:
Discovery and development of own assesses towards creating and sharing
Presence work in space/ time / dynamics /colours / form/ flexibility
Voice/body as performance tools.Piano as a main instrument in the voice work, the challenges, complexity and musical support (other musical instruments or objects.)
The participants will have a possibility to develop their own personal and artistic gesture/voice during the whole process of the program (through observing, teaching and performative skills). Each period Sašo Vollmaier offers 10 hours of piano training as deepening study, with the main theme ” the approach to the voice with piano”.
*The term VOICING/TRACING has been positioned very intentionally between the two central artistic means of expression between voice and movement. It will be developed and supported in dialog with other artistic traces (movement, objects, space, Instruments..).
1st intensive week (body, voice, emotion)
Theme: VOICE & BREATH, PRESENCE & SPACE
Practical theme: listening, voice, breathing, dialogues, voice exploration Teaching piano for voice work
Personal theme of each participant
Practical theme: movement, musical parameter, performance tools Teaching piano for voice work2nd intensive week (awareness)
Theme: PERFORMANCE, UNDERSTANDING, MISUNDERSTANDING & ARTISTIC ISSUES
Practical theme: Philosophy of non-expected situations in creation
Teaching piano for voice workInscriptions
[/vc_column]Une place dans un stage n’est assurée qu’à réception du dépôt de garantie. Merci d’envoyer la fiche d’inscription avec un dépôt de garantie de 120 euros pour le stage. ATTENTION : Pour votre réservation d'hébergement dans les gîtes de Malérargues, il est impératif de verser la totalité de la somme due lors de votre inscription. Les réservations ne seront prises en compte que lors de la réception de l'intégralité du paiement. Les prix affichés pour les stages sont, sauf mention contraire, pour les cours seulement. La date limite pour l’annulation d’une inscription dans un stage est un mois avant la date de début du stage. Merci de noter qu’il n’y aura pas de remboursement du dépôt de garantie après cette date. Avant cette date, le dépôt sera remboursé moins 30 euros pour frais administratifs. Le centre se réserve le droit d’annuler un stage s’il n’y a pas assez de participants. Dans ce cas, le dépôt de garantie sera intégralement remboursé. Si vous réservez par l’intermédiaire du formulaire ci-dessous, assurez-vous d’envoyer votre dépôt le jour même où vous remplissez le formulaire. Nous vous réserverons une place pendant quatre jours. Le CAIRH étant une association, tous les stagiaires doivent être adhérents. L’adhésion est de 20€ par an (année civile). [/vc_column_text]Logement
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[/vc_row_inner][/vc_column]VOICING, TRACING (2021/2022) 1st module( H0930VT ) -
16.10.21-17.10.21Open to allThe rooted voice (Full)Directed by Laurent STEPHANPrice150 €Participants:10Level:Open to all[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]Objectives :
- Become aware of your breathing and develop the breath-body-voice link
- Connecting to your body sensations in relaxation and letting go
- Broadening the palette of your voice: timbres, colours, resonance, registers...
- Travelling and improvising with your voice, around the imagination and emotions
- Developing your listening skills
- Singing with confidence, taking your place in the group in the pleasure of sharing and giving.
Content:
- Body exercises, relaxation, massages, anchoring...
- Exercises to open up the breath and vocal warm-up
- Vocal games, individual or collective improvisations, work on the imagination
- Exercises on space and movement
- Learning simple songs
Wear comfortable 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 their niche!
To facilitate organization, please register as soon as possible – the workshop will not take place if there are fewer than 4 participants.
Inscriptions
[/vc_column]Une place dans un stage n’est assurée qu’à réception du dépôt de garantie. Merci d’envoyer la fiche d’inscription avec un dépôt de garantie de 120 euros pour le stage. ATTENTION : Pour votre réservation d'hébergement dans les gîtes de Malérargues, il est impératif de verser la totalité de la somme due lors de votre inscription. Les réservations ne seront prises en compte que lors de la réception de l'intégralité du paiement. Les prix affichés pour les stages sont, sauf mention contraire, pour les cours seulement. La date limite pour l’annulation d’une inscription dans un stage est un mois avant la date de début du stage. Merci de noter qu’il n’y aura pas de remboursement du dépôt de garantie après cette date. Avant cette date, le dépôt sera remboursé moins 30 euros pour frais administratifs. Le centre se réserve le droit d’annuler un stage s’il n’y a pas assez de participants. Dans ce cas, le dépôt de garantie sera intégralement remboursé. Si vous réservez par l’intermédiaire du formulaire ci-dessous, assurez-vous d’envoyer votre dépôt le jour même où vous remplissez le formulaire. Nous vous réserverons une place pendant quatre jours. Le CAIRH étant une association, tous les stagiaires doivent être adhérents. L’adhésion est de 20€ par an (année civile). [/vc_column_text]Logement
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[/vc_row_inner][/vc_column]The rooted voice (Full)( H1016VE ) -
19.10.21-23.10.21Open to allVoice and Authentic MovementDirected by Marianne LE TRON & Mathilde FABRE*Price450 €Participants:12Level:Open to all[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]Others teachers:
Mathilde Fabre (dance, improvisation, teacher of different somatic approaches (Authentic movement, Contact-Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering®).Workshop hours:
- Tuesday: 10h-13h /15h-18h
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 10h-13h /15h-18hThis workshop will take place only in french but will be announce in the english programme.
Book by Janet Adler ‘Vers un corps conscient’
Website: mathildefabre.jimdo.com/les-approches/mouvement-authentiqueFor further information please contact: Marianne Le Tron : amletron@wanadoo.fr
Website: www.dia-pason.comInscriptions
[/vc_column]Une place dans un stage n’est assurée qu’à réception du dépôt de garantie. Merci d’envoyer la fiche d’inscription avec un dépôt de garantie de 120 euros pour le stage. ATTENTION : Pour votre réservation d'hébergement dans les gîtes de Malérargues, il est impératif de verser la totalité de la somme due lors de votre inscription. Les réservations ne seront prises en compte que lors de la réception de l'intégralité du paiement. Les prix affichés pour les stages sont, sauf mention contraire, pour les cours seulement. La date limite pour l’annulation d’une inscription dans un stage est un mois avant la date de début du stage. Merci de noter qu’il n’y aura pas de remboursement du dépôt de garantie après cette date. Avant cette date, le dépôt sera remboursé moins 30 euros pour frais administratifs. Le centre se réserve le droit d’annuler un stage s’il n’y a pas assez de participants. Dans ce cas, le dépôt de garantie sera intégralement remboursé. Si vous réservez par l’intermédiaire du formulaire ci-dessous, assurez-vous d’envoyer votre dépôt le jour même où vous remplissez le formulaire. Nous vous réserverons une place pendant quatre jours. Le CAIRH étant une association, tous les stagiaires doivent être adhérents. L’adhésion est de 20€ par an (année civile). [/vc_column_text]Logement
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[/vc_row_inner][/vc_column]Voice and Authentic Movement( H1019VM ) -
19.10.21-24.10.21Intermediate/AdvanceVoice researchDirected by Kaya ANDERSON & Laurent STEPHANPrice495 €Participants:12Level:Intermediate/Advance[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]Workshop hours : 9h30 /12h30-15h/17h30
Program:
This workshop is for those who have already worked with the Roy Hart Theatre and for singers, actors, dancers. In depth body/voice/ breathing sessions. Participants are encouraged to explore further vocal qualities, dynamics, resonance and flexibility. Bring a song or text learnt by heart and the score or a print-out of the text.There will be group lessons, polyphonic singing and individual lessons in which each participant will be encouraged to explore the links between voice/body, energy, emotions and the music of innermost being. Bring sports/dance clothes for movement.
Inscriptions
[/vc_column]Une place dans un stage n’est assurée qu’à réception du dépôt de garantie. Merci d’envoyer la fiche d’inscription avec un dépôt de garantie de 120 euros pour le stage. ATTENTION : Pour votre réservation d'hébergement dans les gîtes de Malérargues, il est impératif de verser la totalité de la somme due lors de votre inscription. Les réservations ne seront prises en compte que lors de la réception de l'intégralité du paiement. Les prix affichés pour les stages sont, sauf mention contraire, pour les cours seulement. La date limite pour l’annulation d’une inscription dans un stage est un mois avant la date de début du stage. Merci de noter qu’il n’y aura pas de remboursement du dépôt de garantie après cette date. Avant cette date, le dépôt sera remboursé moins 30 euros pour frais administratifs. Le centre se réserve le droit d’annuler un stage s’il n’y a pas assez de participants. Dans ce cas, le dépôt de garantie sera intégralement remboursé. Si vous réservez par l’intermédiaire du formulaire ci-dessous, assurez-vous d’envoyer votre dépôt le jour même où vous remplissez le formulaire. Nous vous réserverons une place pendant quatre jours. Le CAIRH étant une association, tous les stagiaires doivent être adhérents. L’adhésion est de 20€ par an (année civile). [/vc_column_text]Logement
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[/vc_row_inner][/vc_column]Voice research( H1019VR ) -
26.10.21-31.10.21Open to allThe art of vocal improvisationDirected by Maryline GUITTON & Véronique THOMASPrice540 €Participants:12Level:Open to all[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]Workshop hours:
- course over 5 and a half days - stops on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
- Tuesday to Sunday: 9H-12h30
- Tuesday Wednesday: 14h30-17h
- Thursday Friday: 14h30-18h
- Saturday: 14h30-17h30Program:
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.They will give you tools to help with instantaneous composition – be it physical, vocal, or musical – through intuitive listening, use of rhythm, intention, characters, relation to silence, contrasts, etc. Notions like melody, unisson, counterpoint or ‘gibberish’ will be addressed.
Musical inspiration will reveal itself as you open up to your breathing, to your emotions and sensory perceptions, and to the images and stories of your imagination. Times of in-depth research will alternate with playful games, leading you to explore the extended registers, resonance-spaces and various textures of your voice, to nurture your imagination.
In this space of artistic freedom, as we develop our listening, deepen our presence and savour the pleasure of sounds, mindful in the moment of what wants or needs to be said or sung, we will share our “aliveness” in the present moment and give expression to our limitless vocal potential.
The workshop will include physical and vocal warm-ups, individual and group lessons, vocal exploration, meditations, improvisations. Musical instruments are welcome !
Inscriptions
[/vc_column]Une place dans un stage n’est assurée qu’à réception du dépôt de garantie. Merci d’envoyer la fiche d’inscription avec un dépôt de garantie de 120 euros pour le stage. ATTENTION : Pour votre réservation d'hébergement dans les gîtes de Malérargues, il est impératif de verser la totalité de la somme due lors de votre inscription. Les réservations ne seront prises en compte que lors de la réception de l'intégralité du paiement. Les prix affichés pour les stages sont, sauf mention contraire, pour les cours seulement. La date limite pour l’annulation d’une inscription dans un stage est un mois avant la date de début du stage. Merci de noter qu’il n’y aura pas de remboursement du dépôt de garantie après cette date. Avant cette date, le dépôt sera remboursé moins 30 euros pour frais administratifs. Le centre se réserve le droit d’annuler un stage s’il n’y a pas assez de participants. Dans ce cas, le dépôt de garantie sera intégralement remboursé. Si vous réservez par l’intermédiaire du formulaire ci-dessous, assurez-vous d’envoyer votre dépôt le jour même où vous remplissez le formulaire. Nous vous réserverons une place pendant quatre jours. Le CAIRH étant une association, tous les stagiaires doivent être adhérents. L’adhésion est de 20€ par an (année civile). [/vc_column_text]Logement
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[/vc_row_inner][/vc_column]The art of vocal improvisation( H1026AI ) -
13.11.21-14.11.21Open to allThe rooted voiceDirected by Laurent STEPHANPrice150 €Participants:10Level:Open to all[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]Objectives :
- Become aware of your breathing and develop the breath-body-voice link
- Connecting to your body sensations in relaxation and letting go
- Broadening the palette of your voice: timbres, colours, resonance, registers...
- Travelling and improvising with your voice, around the imagination and emotions
- Developing your listening skills
- Singing with confidence, taking your place in the group in the pleasure of sharing and giving.
Content:
- Body exercises, relaxation, massages, anchoring...
- Exercises to open up the breath and vocal warm-up
- Vocal games, individual or collective improvisations, work on the imagination
- Exercises on space and movement
- Learning simple songs
Wear comfortable 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 their niche!
To facilitate organization, please register as soon as possible – the workshop will not take place if there are fewer than 4 participants.
Registration
[/vc_column]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]Accommodation
Check Before Coming
[/vc_column]The rooted voice( H1113VE ) -
11.12.21-12.12.21Open to allTHE ROOTED VOICEDirected by Laurent STEPHANPrice150 €Participants:10Level:Open to all[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column](the weekends can be taken independently: it is possible to register for 1, 2 or 3 courses)
Objectives :
- Become aware of your breathing and develop the breath-body-voice link
- Connecting to your body sensations in relaxation and letting go
- Broadening the palette of your voice: timbres, colours, resonance, registers...
- Travelling and improvising with your voice, around the imagination and emotions
- Developing your listening skills
- Singing with confidence, taking your place in the group in the pleasure of sharing and giving.
Content:
- Body exercises, relaxation, massages, anchoring...
- Exercises to open up the breath and vocal warm-up
- Vocal games, individual or collective improvisations, work on the imagination
- Exercises on space and movement
- Learning simple songs
Wear comfortable 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 their niche!
To facilitate organization, please register as soon as possible – the workshop will not take place if there are fewer than 4 participants.
Registration
[/vc_column]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]Accommodation
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[/vc_column]THE ROOTED VOICE( H1211VE ) -
28.12.21 - 01.01.22Open to allCelebrating the New Year in MalérarguesDirected by Laurent STEPHAN & Edda HEEGPrice480 € (only workshop)Participants:12Level:Open to all[/vc_column]
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[/vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="display-workshop-info[/vc_column]From décember 28, 2021 to january 1st, 2022
- Tuesday – Thursday 10am -1pm / 3p - 6pm
- Friday 10am -1pm / 2pm - 4pm/ 7pm - 12pm
- Saturday January 1st : 12am - 4pmProgram:
We will end 2021 and start 2022 with voice, movement and celebration - all around your hopes and wishes for the New Year.
Beginning in the morning with movement, breathing and singing, we will go on throughout the day with improvisation and vocal exploration around the themes for the New Year.How would I like
- to explore this doorway between the years?
- to close the old year and the past, and create the threshold into the New Year, with new energy and new ideas.The workshop will include singing lessons in 2 groups.
We will end each day with traditional polyphonic Georgian singing, and we’ll share this together during the last evening.Laurent Stéphan has spent many years exploring the traditions of Georgia especially the 3-part harmony singing, and the traditional ritual of the ‘Supra’ where those sharing a meal are invited to sing and speak from their hearts, and to listen to each other with deep intimacy.
Laurent will direct the New Year's banquet inspired by these Georgian traditions. We will prepare this meal together, and invite the other Malérargues residents to share the celebration with us.
Please write to us directly for further information: laurent_stephan@yahoo.fr
Registration
[/vc_column]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]Accommodation
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[/vc_column]Celebrating the New Year in Malérargues( H1228CN )
“Owning our voices” by Margaret Pikes – book release
Owning our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition,” by Margaret Pikes and Patrick Campbell, published in January 2021 by Routledge in their Voice Studies Series.
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.
Resources
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
“Learning how to sing is learning how to love.“Alfred Wolfsohn
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
“ 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
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
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
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
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
In Singing we appreciate ourselves, the world, nature and the people who are with us.Yehudi Menuhin
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
"The voice is the muscle of the soul."Alfred Wolfsohn
"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
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
For me, singing is connection, self-knowledge, accuracy, expression, wisdom.Paula Molinari
Malérargues: A place to find oneselfNadine Rodilla
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: 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
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
To resound in life: the emotive voiceAlbino Bignamini
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
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
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 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
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
Singing is Connection: to self, to others, to the world.Phil Timberlake
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
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
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
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 a personal sound form, just like your physical body.Ulrik Barfod
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
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
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
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 for me is breathing in with my ears and my soul – and breathing out this inspiration with my voice.Edda Heeg
Singing is my sounding wings unfolded. Malérargues is a link to singing myself back home.Emanuella Lazzerini
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 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 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
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
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 taking pleasure in vibrating, with a desire to express oneself freely.Miguel Alonso Gutierrez
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
“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
Malérargues was built on a dream of a remarkable man, Roy Hart, and some exceptional people who worked with him.Linda Wise
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
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
Dancing my voice and singing my dance brings me in direct contact with my inner space.Rosemarie Anton
