Some say singing is the voice of the soul. Singing your own song, finding your own sound, that is what is primal, authentic, uncivilized in us through years of life in society, is crucial to restore our true, wild being to its living, free form. Music has healing power, it can restore joy in life, peace, sense of meaning, faith in your own creativity and its power.
We invite you to this common practice through traditional, polyphonic songs to awaken your voice and deepen your breath, discover the sounds of our body and the surrounding space. We will also sit in a circle to support each other in the search for our own song, which is just waiting to be able to sing itself, to express itself freely among the people who want to make it real.
The workshop is conducted using Alina Jurczyszyn’s original method of practice with voice, body and breath, inspired by e.g. training of the Gardzienice Theater and paramusical practices of the Institute of Jerzy Grotowski in Wrocław. The material for practice will be traditional songs and improvised songs. The participants are not required to have musical experience, but a willingness to express themselves through the sound and musicality they carry.
WORKSHOPS ARE CONDUCTED BY:
Alina Jurczyszyn (Aja Piesionka): The Song Woman, founder of the Song Laboratory, for almost twenty years has been dedicating her path to exploring the extraordinary matter of sound and traditional songs. He travels all over the world (including the USA, Japan, England, India, Turkey, Israel and most European countries) conducting workshops, giving concerts, collecting songs at their source. Graduate of Gardzienice Theater, director of musical performances. He has recorded ten albums (including the latest album of Laboratorium Pieśni: Rasti – nominated for Fryderyk in 2020) and the book “Unleash your song”. For the last few years he has been practicing healing songs and music therapy with the help of his instruments: shamanic drums, rattles, shruti box, bells, lyre, flute, ukulele, bowls, and tuning forks.
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Kamila Bigus: violinist, graduate of the Academy of Music Stanisław Moniuszko in Gdańsk, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (Inter-Faculty Institute of Art Sciences); singer and music arranger in the Tri-City Song Laboratory and Annutara bands, co-host of the Song Laboratory vocal workshops in Poland and abroad, incl. in the United States, Japan, India, Turkey, Portugal, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland; participant of many album recordings of such bands as: L.U.C, Symphonic Theater of Dreams, Crane Days, False Month or Lokovi; An artist who creates illustrations under the name “My Gold Medicine”, designer of graphics for the albums: Laboratorium Pieśni “Rasti”, Annutara, “Po drum”, “False Month” and “Forty winks”.
Kamila’s solo album “Underwater” is available on:
mygoldmedicine.bandcamp.com;
https://www.instagram.com/mygoldmedicine
Song Laboratory: a Tri-City female singers’ ensemble, arranging traditional polyphonic songs: Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Serbian, Polish and many others. The Songs of the World are performed both a capella and to the accompaniment of shamanic drums and other ethnic instruments (including shruti box, bells, rattles, flute, kalimba, bowls), bringing into the song a traditional new space of voice improvisation, inspired by the sounds of nature, often intuitive, wild, feminine. The band with concerts and workshops visited over 20 countries (including the USA, Japan, England, Scotland, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, Spain, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France). The music video with the Belarusian song “Sztoj pa moru” reached over 12 million views, and the group is followed by over 140,000 fans on Facebook.
Website: www.laboratoriumpiesni.pl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laboratoriumpiesni/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04fEWQOwUD4
REGISTRATION AND FINANCE:
Until June 20 – PLN 700
From June 21 to July 9 – PLN 750
The order of applications confirmed by payment of the advance is decisive.
Advance payment: PLN 300
It is possible to return the advance payment only up to two weeks before the workshop (until June 25); after this date, the advance payment is non-returnable and covers the costs of organizing the workshops.
Please pay the remaining amount in cash before the workshop.
The workshop will be held in Krakow | Space of Movement and Dance Contact, ul. Szpitalna 40
Info and REGISTRATION: Iwona | 509728407 | iwona.wincl@gmail.com
The workshop is intended for adult women and men (without the participation of children).
We have a maximum of 16 places.
ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS:
What to take with you to the workshop?
– notebook and pen
– drinking water, it can be a thermos with warm tea
– comfortable clothes
– if you have one, you can take a comfortable seat cushion with you
SCHEDULE:
The weekend workshop includes 10 hours of internship. We start at 11.00 am on Saturday. Come a bit earlier to get ready for the workshop, turn off the phone, settle accounts with the organizer, so that we can start on time.
SATURDAY (July 9)
11.00 – 14.00 – practice with the body (including Kamila Bigus’ violin training), breathing, voice, polyphonic singing
14.00 – 16.00 – lunch break
16.00 – 18.00 – polyphonic singing
SUNDAY (10th July)
11.00 – 14.00 – practice with the body, breath and voice; song circle
14.00 – 16.00 – lunch break
16.00 – 18.00 – polyphonic singing
We also invite you to a relaxing concert on July 9 | 20:00 | Krakow | Space of Movement and Dance Contact, ul. Szpitalna 40
For workshop participants, the ticket on concert is for PLN 50.