“Power and Intimacy” - The Guardian
In this 4 day course, we will slow-cook ourselves in the beautiful stew of Collaborative Vocal Improvisation. We will sing, sing, sing; all together, in small ensemble, in duos, trios, and alone.
We’ll expand into emergent co-creativity, listening together to what human ecologist Gregory Bateson calls the Schismo-genesis - what is created in the space between - and how to surrender together to the music coming through.
We’ll work with singing, movement, language; with poetry - other people’s, our own, and spontaneously improvised, sung and spoken poetry.
We’ll explore using and sharing the holy essence of our voices in their full range of options. Becoming more and more at home in improvisation, and letting the music flow through.
We’ll work with the Resonant Body to cultivate the unique magnificence of your body’s sound. We’ll be witnessed and un-wittnessed, and play.
We’ll journey with what being seen and heard in a state of ease and surrender brings up for us, what stands in our way. We’ll hold caring space for our own and one anothers’ parts, but we won’t centre healing. Nor will we study music theory this time.
We will dive bravely into creativity together and come out braver, fuller vocal artists, more at home in the sacred art of vocal improvisation; able to express and move through a wider landscape in our singing.
The Structure
We’ll work at the Moor Imagination Collective in Buckfastleigh. The cafe there caters for us; local, very healthy, partly organic, plant based food.
We work together 10-6 each day; after the first morning, there is optional dance 8-9 each morning, then breakfast is provided on site at 9am.
Sessions run 10-1 and 2.30 - 6.
Breakfast 9am, lunch 1pm, Dinner 6.30pm
There is an evening session on the last night (Thursday)
On the last day 24th October we finish by 3.30pm.
Pricing
Please see here for the price. This is a 4 Day course at MIC.
If you need to book accommodation, see here.
Level
If you are new to CVI with Briony, please make sure you do an intro course before this one.
This is for Journey-people, Advanced Students and Alumni.