The School: Moved by Voice with Irena Z. Tomažin
Schedule
Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Fri, 12 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC+03:00Location
Centrul Naţional al Dansului Bucureşti | Bucharest, BU
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June 6th –12th, 2 –7 PMNational Dance Center Bucharest- CNDB on Blvd Mărășești 80-82
This workshop has 2 parts:
- first 3 hours free and open access by registration at [email protected]
- last 1-2 hours, after a break, for artists working on a specific voice material, by registration as well
- we recommend commitment for the entire workshop as much as possible
- open to a whole range from musicians to people traumatized by voice.
'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 one incredible month of meeting the practices of the local cross-disciplinary dance and performance scene, the School continues with an intensive Embodied Voice workshop, welcoming back Slovenian artist Irena Z. Tomazin whose practice ‘Moved by Voice’ had a deep impact last year.
'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...
This workshop is part of TWIS educational program, based in Berlin, and of the School in Bucharest within ‘Parameters for Art and Life: Love, Landscape, Rest, Choir', a program curated by artist Adriana Gheorghe, produced by Theatres and co-financed by AFCN.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the financing recipient.
Image: Petre Fall, from last year's workshop as part of The Institution of Performance, at Suprainfinit Gallery.
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Where is it happening?
Centrul Naţional al Dansului Bucureşti, Bulevardul Mărășești 80, 040256 București, România, Bucharest, RomaniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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