The workshop will be conducted in French, English and Polish.

Fee: 100 EUR

The Voice and Body approach, developed by Zygmunt Molik for 48 years, enables the trainee to open up their voice and body through precise physical actions (the Body Alphabet). The approach involves individual work based on associations of Body Alphabet elements, a kind of improvisation around personal stories. This activates the resonators, and leads to the discovery of the sources of body vibration.

This approach also seeks to harmonize breath and movement, and puts the spontaneity and naturalness that emerge during the work (in singing and speaking) in the service of singing. The aim is to speak as if singing and sing as if speaking, and to find unity between the depth of exploration and the lightness of execution.

The workshops will include:

• Learning and rehearsing specific physical exercises of the Body Alphabet (which engage and strengthen the whole body as well as activating vocal impulses)

• Individual and collective voice work

• Individual work with a text and a song, supervised by the trainer

Jorge Parente, born in Portugal in 1963, is an actor, director and teacher. From 1986 to 1989 he studied in Daniel Postal’s l’École de Théâtre “Le joueur regardé”. Then he trained under Jean-Paul Denizon, Guy Freix and Gennadi Bogdanov, and studied psychophony with Iseult Welch from 2000 to 2001. In 1992 he decided to focus on voice work, collaborating directly with Zygmunt Molik. Sixteen years later he became the only authorized exponent of Molik’s Voice and Body training approach. Now, as well as working as an actor and director, he leads Voice and Body workshops throughout the world in countries such as France, Portugal, Brazil, Thailand, England, the Netherlands and Poland. Jorge Parente has performed in France and Portugal, working with directors such as Eric Auvray, Christian Benedetti, Mathilde Coste, Cyril Delhay, Christian Fregnet, Syvain Marmorat, Sylvie Ollivier, Carlos Pereira, Tiago Porteiro, Denis Robert, Patrick Thoraval and Marc Zammit. He has appeared in films by Bertrand Arthuis, Patrick Dewolf, Roland Moreau, Hervé Palud and Mauricio Sciarra. As a director, he has worked with many theatre groups including Entre Chien et Loup, D’Am Armor, Collégiens de Massy, Teatro de Giz and Trimagisto. He lives in Paris, where he has taught public speaking at Sciences-Po University since 2005.
More information: www.jorgeparente.com

Zoe Ogeret is an actress. She is an assistant engineer at Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5). From 1991 to 2008 she was a member of the French National Committee for Scientific Research. Between 1992 and 2008 she was involved in the International Union of Psychological Science, and from 2002 to 2008 she served on the International Council for Science (ICSU). Zoe Ogeret often assists Jorge Parente in conducting international workshops.