Several years after our NaHlas! Festival, we bring a new opportunity to immerse yourself in your voice. Sarmen Almond, an extraordinary singer and voice performer from Mexico, is coming to Prague this June. Sarmen Almond will lead a unique voice workshop in Prague called Our Voices – Our Sources, and perform in a concert with her project Man in Motion.
Sarmen Almond is a musician, singer, intermedia artist and voice teacher based on the tradition of Roy Hart.
https://roy-hart-theatre.com/
What to expect at the workshop:
We will focus on getting to know your voice
Developing your personal sound and voice identity
Focus on different voice colors
Explore and better understand your “instrument”
We will listen carefully and practise our listening skills
We will immerse ourselves in the energy that our voice is the source of
This workshop is addressed to anyone who is interested in deepening their understanding of the voice. All professionals and amateurs who want and need to explore their voice under diverse dynamic and expressive parameters. We will delve into vocal self-knowledge for free voice management, generating our own vocal identity. Multiple articulations and vocal sounds … a freedom without conditions, guided by knowledge of the instrument itself.
The workshop will be conducted in English, with translation to Czech (when necessary).
We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!
June 1-2, 2024
10:00-16:30
STUDIO ITAKA
Korunní 35, Vinohrady, Prague
Workshop price:
Early bird till May 20 | 2.100 CZK
from 20th to 31st of May | 3.000 CZK
Last minute the 1st of June | 3.400 CZK
registration: info@neiro.org
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This two-day workshop is open to all professionals and amateurs who want and need to explore their voice under diverse dynamic and expressive parameters. We will delve into vocal self-knowledge for free voice management, generating our own vocal identity. Multiple articulations and vocal sounds … a freedom without conditions, guided by knowledge of the instrument itself.
General purpose:
Provide bases of breathing, dissociation, vocal support, broadcast, projection and improvisation to the speaker to reach awareness in the interpretation and reinterpretation of what has been said. Make the body conscious as an instrument and the voice as a natural and dynamic sound capable of expressing in different ways what is wanted to be expressed.
Breathing:
We will approach the breath as the fundamental basis of the vocal and motor emission of the life of the stage artist (vocal support); from the body itself, who produces the sound. Re-learn; remember something that is done by instinct and survival effortlessly and daily to help us in the support and emission of the voice without hurting us.
Dynamics:
The work of the voice through sound images. Principles of acting and corporal expression will help the performer to establish a link between his instrument: his body and his voice.
Topics addressed:
– Human Voice
– Vocal technique
– Knowing myself through my voice – My sounds and my art (colouring)
Sarmen Almond
Mexican musician and voice performer. Intermedia artist and voice teacher trained on the Roy Hart tradition. Master of Sound Arts (Queen’s University Belfast). She’s been awarded SNCA (National System of Creators 2022-24) MX
Sarmen uses the voice and its relationship with electronic media to create compositions and decomposition of the personality on stage. She’s constantly chasing a quest of the infinite vocal possibilities that the human body utters as instrument as well as the reflection of these sounds in physical and imaginary spaces. Almond makes use of resources of free improvisation, extended vocal techniques, programming and body work.
She has performed in Mexico, Aberdeen, London, Belfast, France, Seville, Edinburgh, Prague, Manchester, Falmouth, Sheffield, The Hague, Utrecht, York, Barcelona, Madrid, Singapore, Canada, Vienna, among others.
* Alquimia Vocal: Voice Pedagogy – Triggers * Man In Motion: Downtempo electronic music duo.
The workshop is organised by NEIRO Association for Expanding Arts z.s. with the support of The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of Prague.