Embodied Voice Workshop with Irena Z. Tomažin
August 26 @ 12:00 am – August 30 @ 2:00 pm
Embodied Voice Workshop with Irena Z. Tomažin
August 26–30, 10 AM–2 PM
Suprainfinit Gallery on Mântuleasa 22
Free and open access by registration at theatresteatre@gmail.com
“We sing with our bodies. And if we dare, we open our soul through it. Whether we are aware of it or not—voice declares us. Voice defines our being. Voice is emotional, physical, and therefore spiritual.” (I. Z. T.)
After a month of the Chamber Performance Festival and various workshops, performances, concerts offered by Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Krõõt Juurak, Caroline Salmon, Sergiu Matiș, Siegmar Zacharias & Adriana Gheorghe and others, the Institution of Performance returns with a workshop on embodied voice, called ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇ and led by Slovenian artist Irena Z. Tomažin. All the proposals within the program aim both at advancing individual artistic research and at creating conditions for a sense of belonging (tuning in) while all try to provide a space of encounter for difference, different levels of experience, different expertise or artistic fields etc.
We like to think of an institution that is acoustic, aural, reflective and energetic so why not literally meet our voices, grow our voices.
“In the Moved by Voice 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 matter, expressions and songs already within us.
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. We will 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.
Each day we will finish the work session with individual and group singing. 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.” (I. Z. T.)
Irena Z. Tomažin completed her BA in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She is active as a maker and performer in the fields of experimental improvised music and movement theatre. She has released three solo albums and created eleven voice-movement performances exploring the connections between voice, gesture, body, space, and sound. Her sound experimentation is an exploration of the landscapes of voice that include words, fragments of texts, (traditional) melodic singing, and other vocal techniques, including humming, clicking, and other sounds made with the mouth that pertain not (only) to the voice but also to the body. She teaches voice and movement workshops called ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇ nationally and abroad also through the educational program TWIS and at the dance academy in Slovenia.
https://www.the-world-is-sound.com/irena-tomazin-movedbyvoice
This workshop is part of The World Is Sound (TWIS) educational program, based in Berlin.
The Institution of performance is curated by artist Adriana Gheoghe and produced by Theatres and Petec. The program is co-funded by AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project’s content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
Photos: Nada Žgank,
Graphics: Sebastian Danciu
Many thanks to Cristina Vasilescu and Suprainfinit Gallery for such gracious collaboration!