Students on the intermediate-advanced Wild Voice, Solid Roots year-long of 2019
“One of the world’s leading proponents of collaborative vocal improvisation”
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Dear Singers
I invite you to join me for a weekend of mid-winter deep diving into Collaborative Vocal Improvisation. This is a weekend for all experience levels; I trust that the more experienced folks will bring the newer folks along in our flow; and we’ll all hold each other in kindness.
CVI is a wonderful artform of improvising vocal music together with others in the moment. It’s thrilling and fun and challenging and can deeply connect us to ourselves, one another, and our surroundings.
Here is a video about my teaching if you are new to this.
We’ll warm ourselves up, do some refresher forms to lead us back in, and then play play play, with duet, 4 and 5 person forms, improvising with language, some supported solos, a little Resonant Body work and some yummy sound healing for the midwinter.
Each day, arrive from 10am for a 10.30 start
Bring your own lunch and snacks
We’ll be done by 4.45 for a 5pm departure.
Full price: $325
Bursary price - 3 places $225
Assistant price - 2 places $125
Please contact info@brionygreenhill.com if you would like to be an assistant.
Briony Greenhill is “one of the world’s leading proponents of collaborative vocal improvisation (CVI)” - The Guardian.
CVI is the art of co-creating vocal music in the moment. Here is a short film about Briony’s teaching. Briony is in the lineage of Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, Joey Blake and others, and holds the transformational aspects of the art form with skill and care.
Briony is a co-founder of The Well Global Vocal Improvisation Network, and the UK Vocal Improvisation Festival.
She has released 4 entirely improvised albums. Her debut studio album took improvisations and reproduced them adding instrumentation in the studio. Crossing the Ocean featured in The Guardian, Mojo, Radio 3, Woman’s Hour and more.
Briony teaches vocal musicianship from beginner to advanced levels, while also honouring the spiritual, ritual and therapeutic application of CVI. She is a qualified SomaSource Leader; a “psycho-spiritual educator, artist, activist and healer who has an integrated understanding of how to creatively work in developmentally attuned ways with diverse people throughout life’s cycles.” You can read more about Briony’s teaching values, Vocal Musicianship Trainings, and a history of vocal improvisation in the American tradition here.
Students have said:
“One of the most powerful experiences of my life! I feel changed on a cellular level!” (ok it was a 4 day retreat not a weekend…)
“Briony really made us all feel at home – starting off with exercises that didn’t force me outside of my comfort zone, and a no judgement pact, really allowed me to feel comfortable with the group, which then gave me the confidence to try out some solos.”
“It was seriously fun, crazy, inspiring, opening and meditative, all at the same time.”
“Some singing teachers teach you sing with your voice. Briony teaches you to sing with your heart and sing from your soul.”
“You made it feel like a womb. Protected, loved, nourished, warm and holding.”
Please direct questions to info@brionygreenhill.com.