Telo - Hlas - Komunita vol. III

In the workshop we will meet ourselves differently from how we know ourselves in everyday life, through discovering many diverse voices that are kept in our body. We will go through the process of shifting the awareness towards inner listening and tuning in with our own emotional streams and body impulses. By listening closely we can get to know more deeply not only ourselves, but also our own voice material, expressions and songs already within us.

The first part of each day includes warming up the body and voice individually, followed by work in couples and groups. The work will unfold our voices through intense physical and breathing exercises, through different types of massaging the body and positioning it in order to listen and hear the stream of emotions while opening the body resonators. The ‘motion of emotions’ will become physical, tangible and also musical.
In the next part we explore the connection between movement and voice by tracing the physical impulses through improvisational tasks, observing how sound, breath and movement follow and complement each other. Through hands-on work in partners we can unravel our personal voice identities, that offer us mirrors reflecting our strengths and fragilities. Working with breathing and deep relaxation, we resonate with and listen to our voice, arriving to our own rhythms and melodies which we organically carry within us. This experimentation with sound will make space for different facets and stories to emerge and be amplified within the shared space. By moving the space with our own voices, we will gain the sensation of how we can touch our surroundings and the others through sound.
Each day we will finish the work session with individual and group singing. During the week we will work on an old folk tune, most probably from the Slavic oral tradition. Just by singing the song – as simple as singing can be – we will learn the patience and receptivity of ‘receiving from the song’ rather than ‘doing the song’. The song has already existed for many decades, so the work is more about being open to the song and listening to what it can teach us about ourselves.