• The art of improvisation

    Directed by Mariane SIEM & Zwaantje DE VRIES

    Dates:28.05.24/02.06.24
    Hours:28 h (Tuesday – Saturday :13h30-18h30. Sunday : 9h30 – 13h)
    Price:462 €
    Participants:12
    Level:Open to all
    Workshop Code:B0528AI
    For administrative and accounting purposes, please include this workshop code and the name of the student when making payments and in all other correspondence.

In this workshop we will focus on the skills of vocal improvisation.

We will offer tools that enable you to create instant compositions where you improvise with your voice and your body in the moment, alone and in groups. We will work with different entrances to vocal improvisation such as text, music, visual arts, poetry, space, and nature. You will create your own artistic material and develop your awareness of listening, sensing, moving while sounding, singing, and speaking.

Every day will include physical preparation and an exploration of your voice in its multiple possibilities. There will also be sessions which introduce elements of improvisation such as rhythm, repetition, pause, freedom, and phrases, all with theguidance of Zwaan and Mariane who both have great passion and rich experience in the field of improvisation.

The workshop will be in English but both teachers understand a bit of French.

  • IMPROVISATION
  • LISTENING
  • BADINERIE
  • SELF EXPRESSION
  • CONSCIENCE
  • IMAGINATION
  • COMPOSITION

Mariane Siem

Dramaturge, storyteller, speech therapist
Lives in Aarhus, Denmark
Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 2014

The voice work offers a possibility to connect and express without the logic of spoken words. It offers a relief from the conventions and conversations of daily life and a space where you can express your self - here and now - from the body and in tune with the emotions. It opens up to musicality and imagination. It invites you to listen to yourself in a new way and creates a bridge between the internal and the external world. The voice work touches what is deeply human.

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  • MOVEMENT
  • IMPROVISATION
  • INTERPRETATION
  • PERFORMANCE

Zwaantje de Vries

Performer, Roy Hart Teacher, Dansexpressie Teacher
Lives in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Worked with the Roy Hart Theatre (before 1991)
Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 2013

My identity is my biography and my voice expresses that. Coming from a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic family (Indonesian-Dutch), I was challenged to discover my own identity. Since 1981 the Roy Hart Theatre work been most powerful means to this end. I’m deeply moved each and every time a person discovers the beauty of their own unique voice. After that, the process of integration can begin. To be a guiding companion on that road is a great gift and the core of my teaching.

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    Price:
    22 euros per night, 27 euros with heating.

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    Price:
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    Students are accommodated in simple but comfortable shared rooms with two, three or four beds, shared bathrooms and two fully-equipped kitchens. Sheets and blankets are provided.

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    1) we do not have single, private room
    2) we do not make or take reservations for participants lodging outside the Centre
    3) for residencies and longer stays it may be possible to rent appartments in the Château – these too also get booked early for the summer. More info HERE

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    • 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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