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VOICE AND BREATHING
 THE
BODY’S SONG, THE BREATH OF SILENCE
A workshop led by Germana Giannini and Imke Mcmurtrie
Finding the sound and expressive capacities of one’s
own voice, elaborating one’s own sound outside
of codified language, is fascinating and precious work.
But we don’t often consider the fact that the voice can be
a useful tool for finding our energetic balance.
If we remember that our breath is our voice, as our voice
is our body, we begin to discover a level of expression to
be enriched with time, to “mix” with our daily vocal
habits, capable of literally giving new meaning to our words.
In the workshop, we will explore the body’s points of resonance,
to bring out the individual expressive qualities of each person,
each body-voice’s potential.
With a profound and sensitive work on the individual’s breath
flow, we will experiment the canalization of our energies.
After learning diverse ethnic songs and melodies, vocal affinities
between the participants nurture a group harmony, through group
improvisations and polyphonic vocalization.
GERMANA GIANNINI
With a degree from the University of Bologna in the Philosophy of
Language, she worked for years in theatre and followed courses in
voice, music therapy, popular orchestration and, yoga and yoga-voice.
She studied with various members of the “Roy Hart Theatre”,
and taught voice to the women of 10 different ethnic groups in the
“Voix de Femmes” festival in Liege [FR].
She studied classical Indian song in India, and ritual song in Tibet,
eventually integrating her various studies in a personal research
directed to the expressive powers of the human voice, and the particularities
of the use of the voice in various cultures.
Currently working in the therapeutic use of sonorous vibration,
she teaches as well in the school of popular music “Ivan Illyich”
in Bologna, as well as conducting voice and breathing workshops,
often with Imke McMurtrie.
IMKE McMURTRIE
Worked for years with the historical “Living Theater”
of Julien Beck and Judith Malina
4-6 July 2008
For more info
Tel: +39 08 31 33 03 53 (keep the zero after 39)
Mobile: +39 335 803 7241
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