Sharing the experience of the embodied voice

Directed by Zwaantje DE VRIES

Do you know the feeling of being so happy and content with all the richness of the voice work you’ve done in Malérargues, or elsewhere?  Do you want to pass it on to others – people in your theater group, or class, or choir – just because it gave you so much pleasure and you want to share that far and wide? Me too!  That’s why I’m setting up this series of lessons; so I can share with you the tools which my years of experience have taught me. I will be exploring some vital questions. How is it possible to pass this on? What mistakes might I make? How do I keep the space safe? What comes first and what follows? We will tap into our collective wisdom to explore how body and voice complement each other. And we will investigate the many ways we can pass on our knowledge.
‘Dansexpressie’and my long experience in teaching, improvising and performing dance, voice and movement, will be the tools used.
Voice and movement will be the tools of this workshop. Dansexpressie is a movement and teachingmethod from the Netherlands. Through improvisation, it draws on the unique dance of each individual, a dance embodied in all human beings. For many years it has found its place in our voice work and has proven to be a wonderful complementary resource. This workshop will include group and individual work, singing lessons, supervised group classes and my personal knowledge which I will gladly share with you.  With sufficient interest I hope that this will be the first of a series of workshops.

This workshop is a pilot for a future year group that will include 3 workshops of 10 days each. The group will be closed after the first workshop. Other teachers from the Roy Hart Centre will contribute to the teaching of the year group, in both lessons and seminars. The work will be rooted in the tradition of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart. This year group will be considered as “Deepening Work”.