10–17 August – Free your Voice: Sing your Self alive – Sanne STORM (Faer Islands)
FREE YOUR VOICE - SING YOUR SELF ALIVE
with
Sanne STORM (Faer islands) - voice work
Barbora LÁTALOVÁ (Czech republic) - body work
10th - 17th August, Slavonice
Sanne Storm last lectured in Prague at the invitation of Hlasohled in October 2012. Her workshop was so great that we decided to offer her more space in the form of this six-day workshop. We believe that it will be just as inspirational and beneficial.
The workshop will take place in the picturesque environment of Slavonice, where everything is within 7 mins walking distance.
lavonice is a small, old-world town, which is one of the few in theCzech Republic that has retained its Renaissance form. It has pleasant pubs and cafes and is surrounded by beautiful and pristine countryside. You can go for a virtual walk around Slavonice HERE.
WORKING WITH VOICE
This is a voice course running over six days. The course "Free your Voice ... sing your Self alive" is offering you the opportunity to immerse in the work with body and voice. The intension of the course is to offer a space where you can explore and awake the primary joy of playing with the sound of your voice and movements.
The course integrates work with basic body movements and vocal exercises, as well as more playful and exploratory improvisational exercises with body, voice and words. In more quiet introspective exercises the focus will be on gentle meditative exercises, and the contact with internal images and experiences in order to get in touch with the spring of creativity. Dreams will be a natural part of this. During the week your work will develop into a small bricolage of lyrics, sounds and movements (dance); a personal project titled "The Dance of the Voice - The Songs of the Self".
To me creator processes is forms of vitality, the life and healing generator within ourselves, and the creativity cannot be separated from the processes of life and is by no means the only path to growth. By playing and exploring the body and movement, expression and vocal variety in sound - beautiful as well as ugly, humorous, sincere and sensual sounds - create a space to expand both our artistic and human expression, and create a space to be ourselves in touch with our deepest qualities, which opens the path to vitality, joy and richness - in our lives, in our relationships with others and in our creative work.
The personal project takes its beginning through rhythm, dance and vocal improvisations. The work is about freeing the voice and the movement and finding the inspiration for expression in dreams, meditation, inner images and bodily sensations. We are working to develop a free and vital authentic expression of body, movement, and voice while spontaneous create songs and dances.
The course addresses both singers, actors, teachers, storytellers, therapists, mediators and others who want to explore their voice as a way to gain life force and a full and authentic vocal expression. The most important prerequisite for this course is: Your inner voice is calling!
You must be willing to work individually, in pairs and groups. Bring comfortable clothes, notebook, paper and colours.
The workshop with Sanne Storm will be conducted in English and translated into Czech.
Sanne Storm is a singer and lectures in voice therapy - working with voice as a therapeutic tool. She currently teaches movement and voice therapy atAalborgUniversity inDenmark. She also has a great deal of clinical experience. You can read more about her HERE.
WORKING WITH MOVEMENT
The second, additional lecturer will be the dancer, performer and choreographer Bára Látalová, who will take participants through daily movement improvisation.
Workshop topics:
To stimulate and develop physical and mental creativity
To listen to your body, let your body go, let yourself go
To listen to others around you, to be able to share space and time with others
What movement tells me about myself and others
To communicate
Bára Látalová graduated from the Duncan Centre and studied at Hunter College in New York and the CND in Paris. She is an active dancer, has created solo performances and has frequently cooperated with others. Besides this, she is also engaged in pedagogical activities and taught dance for several years at the HINT drama school in Norway. You can learn more about her HERE
THE WORKSHOP
The participants are expected to arrive at Slavonice on August 10th. In the evening there will be an opening meeting and the lessons starts in the morning of August 11th and totals six teaching days. The classes will take place in a room ocated on the Renaissance town square. Every day, the participants will have approx. 4 and a half hours of singing and 1 and a half hours. of motion exercises.
The price of the workshop is 6550 CZK and includes the classes and a daily common rich breakfast in a form of a buffet. If requested, we can book for you accommodation in the clean but simple Secesní dům pensioner (see pictures HERE ) in 2, 3 and 4-bed rooms. The price of the accommodation alone is 1400Kč in total or 200Kč per night. Those wishing to stay elsewhere can reserve their accomodation on their own and only pay the workshop+breakfast fee of 6550 CZK . There is a number of other hotels and pensioners in Slavonice and also a camping site few miles from the town. More information is available at the town web site www.slavonice-mesto.cz.
Important notice: we can ensure the accomodation in the Secesní dům just for participants who send the application form till 15th of May. Later it is available by demand.
The registration form for the Slavonice workshop can be downloaded HERE.
The workshop will be held in English and translated to Czech.
This workshop is held together with Slavonická renesanční společnost, o.p.s., let see www.zdrojslavonice.cz.