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Workshop with Ditte Berkeley Thu-Sun 23–26 May, 2pm–5pm Na Grobli Studio (Rehearsal Room) Fee: 50 EUR Contact and enrolment Please send your application form to Justyna Rodziñska-Nair: justyna@grotowski-institute.art.pl, by 15 May 2013. The number of places is limited. The workshop will be conducted in English. A voice has a tale to tell. In fact, the voice has a million tales to tell, depending on the song it’s singing, the experiences it goes through, the person who is listening, the sounds surrounding it, the state I, who am singing, am in. As an actress I enter into a dialogue with my voice every time we sing a song. I ask, “How are we going to sing this today? What about this sound, how does it feel? What does it say? What tale does it tell?” The exploration takes me further and brings more questions. This is the work of the performer who wishes to make the song a tool for a very deep exchange of experience between the singer and the listener. The voice is naked – it allows us to share on a level that we are not used to and where we often feel unsure. The exploration of its borders and its connections with the physical experience, with images, with associations, enriches our communication tools and allows for a space of discovery. The work session focuses on an exploration into our own voices and our voices reflected and fused in the voices of others; on the strength of standing confident with the sound of our own voice, exploring its richness and building the foundation to support it – through breath, physical support, imagination; on discovering its strength when appearing singly, and its power when it adds to the richness of a common sound created by other voices.  Ditte Berkeley (Denmark/UK) is a performer and co-creator in Teatr ZAR theatre company and researcher at the Grotowski Institute in Wroc³aw. As well as being a theatre practitioner she is responsible for the cyclical VoicEncounters and was co-organizer with CPR (Wales) of the international festival “Giving Voice” in Wroc³aw in 2009. She collaborates with Studio Matejka and is responsible for their vocal/singing training. Co-leader of workshops: “Into the Sound” with Teatr ZAR, “Awakening the Listening Body” with Matej Matejka. She was brought up in Spain and studied theatre the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London. As part of VoicEncounters, practical seminar |