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Workshop led by Irena Toma¾in Fri-Sun 7–9 February 2014 (Fri 4pm–7pm, Sat-Sun 10am–1pm) Theatre Laboratory Space Contact and application Please send your completed application form to Izabela M³ynarz: iza@grotowski-institute.art, by 24 January 2014. We will get back to you within a few days. Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. Fee: 25 EUR Workshop will be conducted in English. In the workshop we will work on voice through the body – the body is an instrument of voice, it resonates when we sing, it carries the voice. Through physical exercises, by connecting to the body and its movement, we arrive at the voice, seeing and hearing how voice can be an extension and continuation of a physical action. When doing breathing and body relaxing exercises, we can resonate with voice and, by opening our ears to it, we can arrive at our own rhythms and melodies that we carry organically. By experimenting with voice, we reveal its different faces and stories. In turn, by working with a text as a composition, we can embody it and start singing with it, or just speak it into space, make it resonate. By approaching it musically we can interpret it in multiple ways. At the end, singing is just singing. Working with old songs, learning them and singing them in the simplest possible way, learning how to sing through them, can lead us to the sheer beauty of songs.  Each voice has many bodies, each body has many voices. They always go together. The feeling of being in tune appears when you “feel” the other person – the one who is singing next to/in you. You can feel it between your ribs. A bit lower or a bit higher – it depends on the body you are in; the voice you sing or hear in… Or it seems that you don’t feel anything… because you are no longer, you are absent, but you are all in the singing, so you are present... When you forget the words, you knock on the door of improvisation…. So just fallow the rhythm, and the rest will come. If you have words, but no melody, you just need to sustain and stand the silence – you need to listen to it until the mumbling turns into a rhythm, a melody, until it seduces you and, finally, bites your body. To hear yourself you need to be brave. Irena Toma¾in
Please bring a short or longer text to work on. 3–4 sentences or a short paragraph will be enough. Please memorize your chosen text before the workshop.  Irena Toma¾in is a dancer and singer. She is a postgraduate student of philosophy. She has developed five performance pieces and collaborated with many Slovenian directors, choreographers and musicians. Her dance theatre and voice educational background included programmes such as Laboratorij (EN-KNAP) and Agon (EMANAT), as well as seminars on contemporary performing arts (Maska Ljubljana) and many workshops and seminars in Slovenia and abroad. In 2004 she received a scholarship under the Dance Web programme run by the ImPulzTanz Festival, and in 2007 she was selected to join the “Source Techniques – Sources of Techniques” in Wroc³aw, held by the Grotowski Institute. She created an original piece for voice and Dictaphones entitled iT, which she performed at many festivals at home and abroad. She collaborated with Bast Kolektiv of Aldo Ivanèiè on a CD entitled Retinal Circus, and with many other musicians. Toma¾in participates in experimental improvised music workshops organized by Toma¾ Grom and gives voice workshops. Her performances, Caprice and Caprice (Re)lapsed, earned her the Golden Bird Award from the Liberal Arts Academy. A series of events presented as part of the “Co-Voicings” project, run in conjunction with the Emanat Institute, Slovenia.  Auspice:   Financially supported by:    |