moved by voice workshop with Irena Z. Tomažin
Schedule
Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sat, 30 Aug, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC+03:00Location
Suprainfinit Gallery | Bucharest, BU
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Embodied Voice Workshop with 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗭. 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗮ž𝗶𝗻𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟲–𝟯𝟬, 𝟭𝟬 𝗔𝗠–𝟮 𝗣𝗠
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“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 ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇ 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!
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Where is it happening?
Suprainfinit Gallery, Strada Mantuleasa, nr. 22,Bucharest, RomaniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
