30–31 December – Sing yourself into the New Year – Smadar EMOR (Israel)
Celebrate the Coming New Year with singing
Voice In Movement Integration workshop
THE MUSICAL BODY-SELF: CREATING VOCAL PORTRAITS, with SMADAR EMOR (Israel)
Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st of December
In this workshop we open our body to his natural impulses and rhythms and to the natural musicality flow. Those will be expressed through the riche vocal language of our inner self. We will make vocal-musicality portraits, using the vocal-dance as the way to draw inner images and somatic memories of our biography. We will expand our voice possibilities and ,richness by research for the deep connections with the body. We will make little improvised solo compositions as well as duets, trios and group. We will use same ancient Kriol songs to deepen the understanding of resonances and body musicality knowledge.
About the Method "Voice In Movement Integration":
This method suggests an expressive discipline that frees the voice to be fully alive and reflected in expressive behaviour and movement. We will experience Voice in Movement Integration which combines voice with movement to stimulate and organize the body’s physical-perceptual-emotional awareness and revel free impulses that carry the authentic and organic fresh voice in his expression through the body.
Using vocal and physical practices, students explore the skeletal, organ and fluid systems as a source for discovering resonance and vibration of sound in the body. Combining these systems affects the overall quality of sensation, tonal colors, effort and energy flow in embodying the voice. We will also focus on active breath, experiential anatomy, sensory awareness and movement in space.
Improvisation structures are introduced combining vocal, physical, visual, temporal and rhythmic elements to amplify the group experience.
Through a process of personal change participants access a voice that is rooted in the body and linked to physical sensation. Participants will work toward a vocal dance experience stimulated by inner life-sustaining forces, revealed through active movement in space and expressive emotional colors and polyrhythm. Furthermore, students discover the power of linking movement and sound and using the eye and ear in synchrony.
The workshop awakens a fuller expression of voice and language through the entire body and stimulates fresh approaches to performance. This workshop is effective in developing in the actor, singer and dancer an engaged and concentrated whole body experience of their voice work.
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You can download the application HERE.
The workshop will take place in the Contemporary studio located in the "Národní dům na Vinohradech" house, Náměstí Míru 820/9, Praha 2. On Monday 30.12. we will work from 10 am to 5 pm with a lunch break and on Tuesday 31.12. from 5 pm to 12 pm with a dinner break. The workshop will end few minutes after the New year Eve midnight. The fee is is 1750,- / 1550,- for students, pensioners and persons on parental leave.