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Georgian songs and celebrations (Full)

Directed by Laurent STEPHAN & Zoé PERRET

Dates:

28/12/2024
to 01/01/2025

Hours:

32h

Price:

528 €

Participants:

16

Level:

Open to all

Workshop code:

B1228CN

For administrative and accounting purposes, please include this workshop code and the name of the student when making payments and in all other correspondence.

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Workshop description:

Let’s bring 2024 to a close and usher in 2025 with our bodies and our voices. Let’s celebrate your New Year’s wishes with words and music!

We’ll start our mornings with movement, breathing and singing classes, followed by learning and performing traditional and sacred Georgian polyphonic songs. These same songs will be at the heart of our New Year’s Eve celebrations, when we invite you to enjoy the unforgettable experience of a Georgian Supra. A Supra is a ceremonial banquet where each guest is invited to express and sing their innermost being, and to listen to others as they have never done before.

Our Supra meal will be specially prepared by a Georgian chef.

Laurent and Zoé will be your guides for this five-day immersion in the traditions of the Caucasus. Laurent has travelled twelve times to the region to study the music, and as a passionate devotee of this repertoire has been performing it in France with various ensembles for the past 28 years. Zoé Perret lived in Georgia for 16 years, learning its complex language and the subtleties of regional vocal styles. She founded and directed the Tbilisi-based Ensemble Kimilia. As such, she is one of the foremost transmitters of this tradition in France.

If you join us for this workshop, be ready to sing in three voices and to feast your ears and your heart!

Our workshop will include singing lessons in two groups.

Please write to us directly for further information:laurent_stephan@yahoo.fr

(Saturday-Monday 10am –1pm / 3p – 6pm Tuesday 31st 10am -1pm /2pm – 4pm/ 7pm -12pm; Wednesday January 1 :12am-4pm)

Teachers:

Zoé Perret, Roy Hart Voice Centre guest teacher

GEORGIAN POLYPHONY
VOCAL EXPLORATION
INTERPRETATION
RESONANCE
HARMONY
IMPROVISATION

Perret Zoé
Singer, voice teacher, choir director
Lives in Toulouse, France
Exploring the many facets of the voice, playing with the sound of our voices together, letting ourselves be surprised by the richness of our timbres and enjoying a sensory experience of singing: this passion is at the heart of my teaching approach. I like to encourage everyone to discover something new in their voice, for greater confidence, freedom, and pleasure. I lived in Georgia for a long time, immersed in its rich ancestral vocal culture, a vector for human connection. Georgian oral polyphony, with its extraordinary wealth of techniques and styles and the power of its harmonies, is fertile ground for both individual and collective sound exploration.
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Laurent Stephan, professeur de voix Roy Hart

BODY
PRESENCE
POLYPHONIE
PLAYING
EXIGENCY
DISCOVERY
MEETING

Stephan Laurent
Actor, Singer, Massage Practitioner
Lives in Malérargues, Thoiras, France
Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 2011
For me, the philosophy of the Roy Hart voice work lies in listening to and observing the totality of the person who is expressing; taking the risk to be fully in the moment and following our intuitions. It is to give confidence to the student so s/he will dare to venture into places within him or herself, and into qualities of the voice perhaps not yet known, while taking pleasure in this exploration. It is to open a field of possibilities and to welcome the many personalities, voices and energies of which we are comprised. Finally, it is to appreciate beauty wherever it resides.
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Workshop registration

  • Registration for the workshop is confirmed only after receipt of deposit. A deposit of 120 euros for short-term workshops (week and weekend), 300 € for longer ones (4 weeks and year groups), and 700 € (for some workshops with several modules) is required.

  • You can pay by CB or bank transfer. If you pay by bank transfert please pay your deposit within four days or enrolment will be automatically cancelled.

  • If you are unable to make an online payment, please write to us here or call +33 466 85 45 98. Our office is open 10 :00 a.m. – 5 :00 p.m., Monday-Thursday.

  • The remaining balance of the fee must be paid before the beginning of the workshop (payment instructions will be sent in the confirmation email). In case of non-payment before the workshopse, you will have to pay on arrival at Malérargues by credit card, cheque or cash.

  • In the event of low enrolment, the centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop and any deposit can be transferred to another workshop, or fully refunded.

  • You can cancel your registration within one month before the start date of the workshop. A €30 administrative fee will be charged for all cancellations. We regret that deposits are non-refundable within 30 days of the first day of a workshop.

  • Workshop fees do not include meals. Two common kitchens are available for the participants of the internships. They are reserved in priority to the interns housed in the lodgings. A fridge is available for trainees who are present all day in the changing rooms.

Membership

The Centre Roy Hart is an association under French law and all participants in the workshop must therefore be members. The annual membership fee is 30€ for the calendar year. This fee is added to your registration if you are not a member for the current year.

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