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The Ember. 4th Summer School of Studio Kokyu

  • When

    24.07.2022 - 04.08.2022

  • Where

    Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego (Rynek-Ratusz 27 50-101 Wrocław)

  • Language

    in english

Studio Kokyu’s fourth Summer School will be 12 days of intensive physical and vocal training focused on finding/building the presence of a performer in a group and on awakening the inner energy and creative imagination of a performer while working with movement, voice, text and song. The school will be shaped as a time of intensive physical and vocal work.

Studio Kokyu’s fourth Summer School will be 12 days of intensive physical and vocal training focused on finding/building the presence of a performer in a group and on awakening the inner energy and creative imagination of a performer while working with movement, voice, text and song. The school will be shaped as a time of intensive physical and vocal work.

The training will be led by experienced performers and educators Joanna Kurzyńska, Marie Walker and Przemysław Błaszczak, assisted by Marta Horyza, who are the core of Kokyu Studio and are committed to the continual deepening of their practice. Joanna, Marie and Przemysław will lead workshop participants through a profound work process, at once individual and collective, towards a smouldering ember, the place where the flame of a conscious creative process begins. The place where I am today. Me, my breath, my body, my voice. Drawing flames from an ember – flames which will warm up the house – takes attention, care, focus, effort and time. The Ember will offer the opportunity to focus on this beginning. It will give participants the reason to initiate a movement, take a breath, make a sound.

The elements of the work:

  • Kokyu training – training which allows for concentration on the movement and the breath in its unity, it serves in building the concentration and strengthening the body while preparing it for the voicework;
  • The Herd – contact run – it’s used to build the group, the basic level of this practice is called tuning, it awakens the global listening of the entire body, requires attentiveness and being present in the moment;
  • partner training – working both with acrobatics in partnering and building subtle relationships connected to following/leading, communicating through touch and other physical communication channels;
  • aikido elements – Japanese martial art based on the idea of using and redirecting the energy which is received from the opponent. The work will include both, elements of physcial training and the weapons: bokken and  – japanese wooden sword and stick;
  • Voice in Progress – authorial research programme of Joanna Kurzyńska; it combines techniques of freeing the voice through intensive breathwork, body awareness and imagination (the work is rooted in the teachings of Kristin Linklater method, the work of Emma Bonnici and teachers of Roy Heart Theatre);
  • breath-voice-singing – elements in process of reconstructing the correct habits in understanding one’s voice as a tool to communicate, the way it functions and its possibility in daily life as well as on stage;
  • resonators/vibrations – introducing the voice into the resonating spaces of the body, vibrating it in its individual and mutual sound;
  • harmony of mutual singing – a practice of meeting in a polyphonic song as an opening of the channel of individual expression for improvisation but also experiencing a group existing together in polyphony, a mutual telling of a story, disappearing in harmonic unity;
  • improvisation and creation of the physical and vocal structures which could serve as a material to stage work.

The physical training is designed to awaken the awareness of the physical potential of the participants and their inner seeing and listening – themselves/partners/ensemble. The voice training and working with songs will allow a focus on the voice as a tool to communicate in daily life.

This workshop is for anyone with extensive experience working with movement, singing, dance, acting or other performance-related fields. It is open to actors, dancers, singers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists and arts school students. Please note that the Summer School delivers intensive training which requires physical and mental preparation.

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Freeing the Natural Voice According to Kristin Linklater: text and song

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This workshop combines the experience of learning the entire progression of Linklater exercises (I Touch of Sound and II The Resonating Ladder) while working with material (text/song). Based on specific communication built between thought impulses and vocal expression, with the participation of the imagination, the text/song becomes a guide for the person/performer to explore words and sounds anew, following the impulses coming from the body, not those dictated by the intellect.

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