"The Vocal Body" Workshop
March 29 and 30, 2025
in Lasalle in Cévennes (Gard-30)
Voice, singing, breathing and movement workshop, supported by the practice of WUTAO in co-animation with Jean-Baptiste Robert, Wutao teacher.
A course for all levels dedicated to Voice and Body, based on the Roy Hart Centre approach and supported by the practice of Wutao.
It is aimed at people who want to know their voice and body better for greater possibilities of expression and well-being in everyday life, at choristers and performing artists, at people who use their voice in their profession...
Vocal technique, Wutao practices, theatrical games, body practices, improvisation, polyphonic world songs.
The Vocal Body
Breathe, vocalize, speak and listen with your whole body, let yourself be crossed by the current of life and sing!
The involvement of the body in these exploration processes is fundamental
By awakening through the awareness that we offer it in movement or observation, each part of the body can then listen and sing, calling with all its voice the being to inhabit it more fully.
During these 2 days, we will offer you the opportunity to open up new fields of possibilities for the deployment of your breath, your body and your voice to take them into everyday life or on stage.
Group work, in a safe and supportive environment, with its playful and theatrical aspect, contributes to this process of opening and liberation.
You will be encouraged to let your intuition live and make your listening more available for improvisation and interpretation.
We will offer you a caring and sincere listening session to guide you in a personal exploration of your voice.
What is Wutao?
Wutao is a practice of bodily ecology, a contemporary art of returning to the living, to breath and to integral gesture, through the specific movements of Wutao.
In addition to pulmonary breathing, with Wutao we will encounter another, equally fundamental, breathing in our body: that of the tissues! By rediscovering this essential pulsation, we then gradually rehabilitate the Wave, vector of the deployment of vital energy, to accompany its diffusion throughout the entire body.
Wutao offers itself as a restorative path, inviting us to smooth out our corporality in order to inhabit it fully, and to taste the joyful feeling of ease, of fullness in an integral, sensitive and profoundly alive body.
To learn more, we invite you to visit the official website of the founders of Wutao
Internship content:
- 5 Wutao practices (1 hour/half day)
- Body and vocal warm-up times, sometimes on the floor and in physical contact.
- Workshop times to explore the spoken and sung voice
- Individualized times to accompany your personal voice search
- Moments of group singing in polyphony.
"(...)the ability to maintain a strong awareness of our whole body while producing vocal sounds can allow us to develop our ability to navigate complex situations in real life." (Roy Hart)
Practical details
Dates and times:
The course begins on Saturday, March 29 at 9:30 a.m. and ends on Sunday, March 30 at 5:30 p.m.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the course so that we can start together at 9:30 a.m.
Place:
The Filature du Pont de Fer, 30460 Lasalle (between the Old Bridge and the stadium).
Rates:
160 euros for the full course
(For people who only want to practice Wutao, it is 15 euros/one hour practice)
Accommodation and meals:
If you would like accommodation, please contact us directly at - 0659270617
Price/night: Between 15 and 35 euros depending on the type of accommodation desired and subject to availability.
Bring your lunch (no possibility of reheating)
Registration procedures:
Registration is done on the hello asso website by paying a deposit of 100 euros.
Important:
The deposit represents an act of commitment on your part. For our part, we also commit to the venue's rental companies and to creating the best conditions so that you can benefit from a high-quality internship.
Less than one month before the internship, the deposit is no longer refundable.
Thank you for your understanding .
The speakers
Jean-Baptiste Robert
Teacher Wutao , photographer
Passionate about movement, breathing, research
of ease and fullness in body and mind,
Jean-Baptiste explores practices of Tensegrity and dance
and Systema. A real favorite, the discovery of
Wutao, in which he trained, marks a turning point in
the approach to the body then the enthusiasm to transmit,
with passion and pedagogy. The dimension of breath, essential to life, is fundamental to each of these disciplines.
"Nature, in which I like to recharge my batteries, greatly inspires my practice of Wutao. I am also interested in philosophy in the broad sense, in the Toltec Way of Carlos Castaneda, and in various metaphysics, particularly oriental ones (Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri Shivaism, Zen & Dzogchen). Loving nature and sharing a contemplative and wonder-filled outlook, turned towards poetry as well as the sense of the mysterious, I am also a photographer (www.flickr.com/photos/jibz55).
Looking forward to making our bodies and minds breathe!”
Contact Email: jibz.02@hotmail.fr
Delphine Cam
Singer, songwriter, composer and teacher
of voice.
Author and composer, singer in concerts and
shows for over 20 years, I am also
voice teacher inspired by an intuitive practice
singing and the pedagogical approach of the Roy Hart Center.
The involvement of the body and movement in singing
is central in improvisation as in interpretation.
As a voice teacher, my work in educational support for groups or individual sessions aims to encourage the free expression of the voice and to open spaces of musicality in order to explore and express the unique vocal creative potential of each person in connection with movement and body awareness.
My attraction to rhythm, polyphony and world music influences my musical creativity and also directs my accompaniment towards the transmission of traditional songs and group improvisation.
I have always felt like a seeker on a path to freedom. Singing, dancing and meditation are for me precious spaces through which I meet and express the wild, loving and present being that I am. Accompanying other seekers through the "work" (I prefer to say exploration) of the voice fascinates me in this, a voice that frees itself is a miracle! A voice that loves itself is a miracle, encountering the joy emanating from this process is a grace!
