Dance of the Voice - the Voice of the Dance

10/06/2020

A Moment captured from the Dance Your Quarantine Performance last Saturday @ ko-labor !

with Isabelle Lux and Michal Shavit

14/05/2020

Regardless of our differences, each of us has lived something extraordinary in this time.

This is an invitation to process and share your experience.
Side by side, with 2 m distance, dance the memory of what what you have lived.

°°°DANCE YOUR QUARANTINE°°°
°°°°°°°A CREATIVE PROCESS °°°°°°°
writing - drawing - movement - sound

WORKSHOP
24.5.20 15.00-18.00

and

OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE
30.5.20

@ ko-labor BOCHUM
Ein ExperimentierOrt
Supporting Diversity in Unity

Limited to 6 Participants!

For Registration, Inquiry and Safety guidelines, Contact: dansedelavoix@gmail.com

Situation Room. Situation 1.

04/04/2020

Practice #5:
What if we could sound the pathways of communication between our bodies and brains?
What road maps might we uncover?
Especially when there’s no where to go but home .. 🍃

02/04/2020

The first step in establishing a dialogue with the unknown is listening 👂 ✨
Practice Proposal #4... Under Quarantine
From Pauline Oliveros « Deep Listening »
Something to go deeper into your own listening practices
And something to inspire a dialogue, from one environment to another.
Please feel free to share the sounds you hear..
for the experience of one shared environment

31/03/2020

Practice Proposal 3: Under Quarantine
The Spaces we Inhabit...

Regardless of the amount of space available to us these days

It may be interesting to explore ..
1. How we enter and exit a space
2. How we inhabit the space (from a place of rest/listening)
3. How we move, sound and/or transition within that space
4. How our movements and/or sounds transform our experience of the space
5. How our body/minds are affected by our experience of the space

We may be asking ourselves, is there anything about this space that I´d like to change? And if so, how might this change contribute to way we move and/or sound in the space?

And finally, if you were to describe the layout of the space available to you, inside and out, throught movement and/or sound, what shape might it take?

§Please feel welcome to Share your experiences here!

28/03/2020

Singing for health practice #2:
Try this from Andrea Olsen’s book « Body and Earth ». Gradually you can add sound with each exhale as you surrender to the pull of gravity. Remain aware of the support of the ground pushing up to meet you as you release your weight into it. Let your inhale move through each lift as described below, and sound again as you release into ground. When finished you may return to the first practice shared yesterday and see if anything has changed.

27/03/2020

Singing for health Practice #1:
From Silvia Nakkach’s book, « Free your voice, awaken to life through singing »

27/03/2020

In times of crises, singing may have more importance than we realize!
Because of the incredible amount of health benefits attributed to singing, I’ve decided to post daily practices here, free of cost.
Singing can :
- relieve stress
- release tension and fatigue
- promote deep breathing, strengthen the lungs
- regulate heart rhythm
- lower blood pressure
- restore energy
- boost the immune system!
- increase ability to flight and prevent infections
- stimulate and strengthen all organs of the body
- bring us home to our bodies and selves
- open a dialogue with the unknown
- connect to something larger than ourselves

08/03/2020

A shared experience from an anonymous participant after last week´s class. Join us tomorrow to find out for yourself how moving and sounding with the voice can create a greater sense of connection to ourselves and others!

"In exploring my voice within my body and reacting to the impulses from the voices and rhythms of the others I really got this strong feeling of being connected to one another and the whole group. It is good to know that there is a way out of any „bubbles“ or „fish tanks“ separating people. I am convinced that experiences like ours with the Sounding body / Klangkörper can help to transform those closed structures into open ones, like nodes of a net, and release ones personal creativity within the productive group, as people can transform these new strong experiences into other situations and create new routines of acting together.

Toll war auch, zu spüren, wie eng Stimmung und Stimme miteinander verbunden sind, durch die Stimme in der Körperbewegung der Stimmung nachzuspüren, sie auszuleben und loszulassen. Vielen lieben Dank!"

09/02/2020

Inspiration for Voice and Movement Improvisation Class

Tomorrow @17:30 ko-labor

Replenishing our energy ressources
. enter the cocoon and emerge.. transformed!

***Donation based***

03/02/2020

3 in Resonance.. exposed for the first time Live last Thursday Roxi-Jazz, Witten .. !
3 Women, 3 Voices, 3 Bodies in movement and 1 Violin.. each with a Story to tell meet, melt, mold and meander into new modes of cross-disciplinary research
with Gregory, Meloni Mais and Lïla Elizabeth Tolan

14/01/2020

Calling all whales:::::::::::::New timing for Voice and Movement Improvisation::::::::::::: from 17:30-19 Uhr -Labor Bochum
Join us next Monday, January 20th!

Humpback whales pick up songs from one another along their migratory routes, which means we can tell which places they’ve visited just by listening to them

14/01/2020

A moving experience yesterday at Ko-labor -
Voices sounding the image of a flower in bloom - wilting and reborn
Walking, listening, waiting, accumulating mood, and finally song

Here, a little something to resonate with us for those who cannot join in person!

THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Temple

13/01/2020

Today @ 18 Uhr :::

Tuning into the resonance of our inner drum:
The thoracic diaphragm - the seat of laughter and crying, cradles the expansion of the heart

Join us at the Ko-labor in Bochum
Danselavoix@gmail.com

20/12/2019

Klangkörper SouNding BoDiEs
begins another cycle

from January 6th, 2020
Monday evenings, 18-19:30
-labor BOCHUM

Contact for réservations: danselavoix@gmail.com

12/11/2019

https://youtu.be/LjjPL-t9AYM

Documentation excerpts for On Behalf of Nature, a multidisciplinary performance piece by Meredith Monk. Performed by Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble in 2013. ...