Voice body intensive

Voice body intensive

Directed by Margaret PIKES & Neil PARIS*

Dates:29.07.25/03.08.25
Hours:36 h
Price:594 €
Participants:12
Level:Intermediary & advanced
Workshop Code:C0729VC

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This is a practice-based workshop. Guided by two highly experienced and supportive teachers, participants will explore and develop their awareness of the dynamic sources of voice in the body and the imagination.

The focus will be on individual voices, texts and songs, as well as group work, sounds, and songs. Awakening awareness of the body as a vital space allows us to build a deeper connection with the voice, so that it can become a medium of transmission, nourished and fed by true roots in the body.

Neil Paris has led workshops for many years with Margaret, and uses dance, theatre and yoga practices to explore imaginative approaches to making connections and pathways through the body to the voice. He combines playful exercises designed to free the body and stimulate the imagination with quiet, disciplined practices that connect us to our breath and our unique inner worlds.

In the mornings the focus will be on individual voices. In the afternoons we will work in groups on improvisations, texts and/or songs brought by each person.
For more information contact Margaret : mpikes2000@yahoo.com

This workshop is open to participants who are interested in the Wolfsohn/Hart approach to the development of the range of vocal expression, and who already have experience in vocal and/or body research and improvisation.

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Would you like accommodation in Malérargues during the workshop?
Price: 22 euros per night, 27 euros with heating.

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Price: €5 per week

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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.

You will find photos of the accommodation HERE

Please note:
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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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.

Accommodation

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GUEST HOUSING AND APPARTMENTS

La Salindre / Soudorgues (8 km from the Centre)
Tansen R. Mundt, Maria Bernhold – Tel. (+33) 4 66 85 23 51 / www.lasalindre.eu

Gîte rural Calviac / (3 km from the Centre)
Mr Jacques SOULIER – Tel : (+33) 06 77 79 59 11

“Au Ruisseau de Rose” (Chambres d’hôtes) St Jean du Gard (10 km from the Centre)
Tel : (+33) 4 66 54 51 07 / www.ruisseauderose.fr

“La Cure” Gite d’étape/ Lasalle (5 km from the Centre)
Tel : (+33) 6 30 47 82 62

Gîtes du Mas de Clarou / Lasalle (5 km from the Centre)
Tel : 07 86 27 03 12 /https://www.lasalle.fr/structures/les-gites-du-mas-de-clarou

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/

CAMPSITES

Filament (2 km)
Tél: (+33) 4 66 85 20 52

La Salendrinque (Lasalle 4 km)
Tél: (+33) 4 66 85 24 57 / fax (+33) 4 66 85 41 50

Le Campement (3 km) Calviac
Tél. (+33) 4 66 85 13 58

Les Hauts de Labahou, RD907, 30140 Anduze
Tél : (+33) 04 66 61 77 90 / 06 03 93 38 88

Sourire du Sud’ (mini camping et gîtes)
Tél (+33) 06 79 99 98 85
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Margaret Pikes

Voice Teacher
Lives in Lasalle (France)
Worked with Roy Hart and was part of the Roy Hart Theatre (before 1991)
Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 1970

My work is rooted in the Wolfsohn-Hart approach to exploring the human voice. I aim to help my students to not only free their voices but also to feel emotionally and physically connected to their vocal range in a way that builds a sense of vocal empowerment. Each student can come to feel that their voice belongs to them and that they possess a repertoire of vocal possibilities to which they have conscious access and which corresponds to who they are. I offer individual voice lessons online and in Malérargues. More information about my experience, my way of working and reflections on this approach to voice work can be found in my book “Owning our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition,” written with Dr Patrick Campbell. It was published by Routledge, in January 2021.

One of the Roy Hart Theatre founding members, Margaret Pikes has been a voice teacher internationally for more than 50 years.

After participating in the early Roy Hart Theatre productions, Margaret continued as a professional singer of many genres from jazz to chanson Française. She sang as the soloist in the ‘Canto General’ for many years.

She lived in Togo, West Africa for six years singing regularly with the jazz trio ‘Anima’. She toured among others with Michelle Bernard in « Des Nuits Noires de Monde », with Smith Dancetheatre in ‘Agnes and Walter: A Little Love Story’ as well as with her own one-woman shows of French songs and texts. She was an honorary research fellow at Manchester University. More detail of her 50 years of experience can be found in her book written with Dr Patrick Campbell.

Margaret Pikes has worked with Roy Hart, Dorothy Hart, Robert Harvey, Liza Mayer, Kaya Anderson and Barry Coghlan.
She speaks English, French and German.

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Neil Paris

Performer, teacher, director
Lives in Norfolk UK

I use dance and theatre practices to explore imaginative ways of making connections and pathways through the body to the voice. I combine playful exercises designed to free the body and spark the imagination with more disciplined practices that connect us with our breathing and our own unique interior worlds.

My aim is to help people to gain greater awareness and confidence in the way move and to help them to use that in their vocal explorations.

From 2003 – 2010 Neil Paris was a core performer with Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre whose work toured around the world and was nominated for three Olivier Awards.

In 2011 he created and directed Agnes and Walter: A Little Love Story which toured the UK. The show featured Margaret Pikes alongside a company of professional and non-professional performers aged 28 – 80.

He has an extensive teaching practice and has led dance and theatre workshops for people of all ages in professional institutions, schools and community settings. He has taught workshops and intensives alongside Margaret Pikes for the past 10 years.

He is currently Artistic Director of Deep Roots Tall Trees in Corby, Northamptonshire and lives in Cromer, Norfolk.

Neil Paris teaches in english.

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Directed by Margaret PIKES & Neil PARIS*

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