We cordially invite you to a VOCAL WORKSHOP: A Cappella Polyphony and Traditional Song with Lydie Charlotte Kotlinski.
The workshop program features traditional African songs, songs from West Africa (Congo, Benin, Senegal, Mali) and South Africa (Zulu and Xhosa languages), sung in a cappella polyphony (multi-voice), meaning no harmonic instruments, just voices.
For everyone interested!
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
1. Technical singing lesson/vocal exercises (working on breathing, using muscles, focusing on proper posture, and connecting the entire “body structure”). Physical stretching. The whole body sings.
2. Exploring different “voices,” different sounds that lie within us.
3. Rhythmic exercises, engaging the feet, clapping the rhythm with the hands – the whole body plays.
4. Polyphonic and harmonic games. 5. Vocal improvisation, rhythm/harmony/melody correlation.
ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS:
WHEN?
Sunday, January 11, 2025
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Price: PLN 120
WHERE?
CONTACT: Space of Movement, Dance, and Music, Szpitalna Street 40, 1st floor, Krakow.
Registration via private message or email: lydie.kotlinski@gmail.com
The course is led by a professional vocalist with vocal training in classical (conservatory) and jazz (Paris school). She has 18 years of professional a cappella vocal polyphony in a trio and a cappella vocal quartet.
She has been teaching singing courses for 25 years. Developing the voice as an instrument in itself, like a vibrating string that rings and resonates throughout the body.
*Feel free, let your voice flow freely without barriers. Simply allow the air to flow.
*Allow yourself to experience the simple pleasure of singing, trusting in a supportive group.
*Let us vibrate.
*Receive those inner vibrations in which the whole body resonates, everything resonates.
*Let us find a connection with our life energy through the voice that reveals our inner self. And let joy come.
*The joy of being together. The joy of being.
*The feeling of being part of a harmony, a harmony of voices, and a harmony of hearts.
*By allowing ourselves to sing, we release mental and physical tensions.
*Let us rediscover (or rediscover) the feeling that singing is, above all, a natural, simple activity.
*Singing connects us with ourselves and with others, with everything around us. =>Thanks to polyphonic musical games, you will hear better, become more aware of, and better manage your voice.
Lydie studied classical vocal performance at conservatories in France and jazz studies at the CIM in Paris.
She has been a vocalist in the following bands: Lunatik Jazz Orchestra (first prize for young people at Jazz Avignon in 1993), Iyema Gospel Quartet, and Millénium Gospel Voices. She worked in the theatrical cabaret Les Petroleuses and participated in recordings for the Marseillaise Memorial. For many years, she led jazz singing and initiation workshops in Paris, and gospel workshops in middle and elementary schools in Marseille.
Since 2003, she has co-founded the group Les Tisseuses d’étoiles, a female vocal trio performing gospel, African-American, and African songs, with which she regularly tours, collaborating with the Union Nationale de Jeunesses Musicales de France. In Poland, she has led the Łontanara choir since October 2012, which won the Audience Award at the Mikołajki Folkowe festival in December 2014.
In April 2015, she and Mariola Mazurek launched the Koyemba workshop project, a musical journey through West and South Africa. The classes are intended for all singing enthusiasts, regardless of age or musical skill level. The program includes: song instruction; vocal, breathing, and rhythmic exercises; polyphonic singing; and elements of improvisation and song interpretation.