Let’s bring 2024 to a close and usher in 2025 with our bodies and our voices. Let’s celebrate your New Year’s wishes with words and music!
We’ll start our mornings with movement, breathing and singing classes, followed by learning and performing traditional and sacred Georgian polyphonic songs. These same songs will be at the heart of our New Year’s Eve celebrations, when we invite you to enjoy the unforgettable experience of a Georgian Supra. A Supra is a ceremonial banquet where each guest is invited to express and sing their innermost being, and to listen to others as they have never done before.
Our Supra meal will be specially prepared by a Georgian chef.
Laurent and Zoé will be your guides for this five-day immersion in the traditions of the Caucasus. Laurent has travelled twelve times to the region to study the music, and as a passionate devotee of this repertoire has been performing it in France with various ensembles for the past 28 years. Zoé Perret lived in Georgia for 16 years, learning its complex language and the subtleties of regional vocal styles. She founded and directed the Tbilisi-based Ensemble Kimilia. As such, she is one of the foremost transmitters of this tradition in France.
If you join us for this workshop, be ready to sing in three voices and to feast your ears and your heart!
Our workshop will include singing lessons in two groups.
Please write to us directly for further information: laurent_stephan@yahoo.fr
(Saturday-Monday 10am –1pm / 3p – 6pm Tuesday 31st 10am -1pm /2pm – 4pm/ 7pm -12pm; Wednesday January 1 :12am-4pm)
- BODY
- PRESENCE
- POLYPHONIE
- PLAYING
- EXIGENCY
- DISCOVERY
- MEETING
Laurent Stéphan
Actor, Singer, Massage Practitioner
Lives in Malérargues, Thoiras, France
Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 2011
For me, the philosophy of the Roy Hart voice work lies in listening to and observing the totality of the person who is expressing; taking the risk to be fully in the moment and following our intuitions. It is to give confidence to the student so s/he will dare to venture into places within him or herself, and into qualities of the voice perhaps not yet known, while taking pleasure in this exploration. It is to open a field of possibilities and to welcome the many personalities, voices and energies of which we are comprised. Finally, it is to appreciate beauty wherever it resides.
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- GEORGIAN POLYPHONY
- VOCAL EXPLORATION
- INTERPRETATION
- RESONANCE
- HARMONY
- IMPROVISATION
Zoé Perret
Singer, voice teacher, choir director
Lives in Toulouse, France
Exploring the many facets of the voice, playing with the sound of our voices together, letting ourselves be surprised by the richness of our timbres and enjoying a sensory experience of singing: this passion is at the heart of my teaching approach. I like to encourage everyone to discover something new in their voice, for greater confidence, freedom, and pleasure.
I lived in Georgia for a long time, immersed in its rich ancestral vocal culture, a vector for human connection. Georgian oral polyphony, with its extraordinary wealth of techniques and styles and the power of its harmonies, is fertile ground for both individual and collective sound exploration.
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Registration
Workshop enrolment is confirmed only upon receipt of deposit.
- Upon submission of the enrolment form below, a deposit of 120 euros per workshop is required, as well as payment in full for accommodation. Please pay your deposit within four days or enrolment will be automatically cancelled. Accommodation bookings will only be taken into account once payment has been received.
- Unless otherwise specified, workshop fees do not include meals. Shared kitchens are available for the use of workshop participants.
- For a refund in the event of cancellation, the deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is 30 days before the workshop is scheduled to begin. A €30 administrative fee will be charged for all cancellations. We regret that deposits are non-refundable within 30 days of the first day of a workshop.
- In the event of low enrolment, the centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop and any deposit can be transferred to another workshop, or fully refunded.
- The Centre Artistique International Roy Hart is an association under French law and all workshop participants must therefore be members. The annual membership dues are €30.
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La Salindre / Soudorgues (8 km from the Centre)
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Gîtes / Lasalle (5 km from the Centre) / https://www.lasalle.fr/hebergement
Gîtes Saint-Jean du Gard (12 km from the Centre) / https://www.gites.fr/gites_saint-jean-du-gard_12444.html
Village de gîtes Ravel (14 km from the Centre) Tel: +33 6 87 69 01 63 https://www.village-de-gites-ravel.fr/
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Filament (2 km)
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