We cordially invite you to VOCAL WORKSHOPS polyphony a cappella traditional song with Lydie Charlotte Kotlinski.
The workshop program includes traditional African songs, songs from West Africa (Congo, Benin, Senegal, Mali) and South Africa (Zulu and Xhosa languages) sung in polyphony (polyphony) a capella, i.e. without harmonic instruments, only voices.
For everyone interested!
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS:
1. Technical singing lesson / vocal exercises (working on breathing, using muscles, paying attention to correct posture and connecting the entire «body structure»). Physical stretching. The whole body sings.
2. Searching for different «voices», different sounds that lie dormant in us.
3. Rhythmic exercises, moving the feet, clapping the rhythm with your hands – the whole body plays.
4. polyphonic, harmonic games.
5.Vocal improvisation, correlation of rhythm / harmony / melody.
ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS:
WHEN?
Sunday, May 18, 2025
15:00 – 17:30
Price: PLN 120
WHERE?
CONTACT. Space of Movement, Dance and Music, ul. Szpitalna 40, 1st floor, Krakow
Registration in private or by email lydie.kotlinski@gmail.com
The course is led by a professional vocalist with vocal education in classical (conservatory) and jazz (Paris school). 18 years of professional a cappella vocal polyphony in a trio and a cappella vocal quartet.
She has been running singing courses for 25 years. Development of the voice as an instrument in itself, like a vibrating string that rings and resonates throughout the body.
*Feel free, freely let your voice go without barriers. Just let the air flow.
*Allow yourself the simple pleasure of singing, trusting a friendly group.
*Let us vibrate.
*Receive these inner vibrations in which the whole body sounds, everything resonates.
*Let us find the connection with our life energy through the voice that reveals our inner self. And let the joy come.
*Joy of being together. Joy of being.
*Feeling that we are part of the harmony, the harmony of voices and the harmony of hearts.
*By allowing ourselves to sing, we release mental and physical tensions.
*Let us rediscover (or find) the feeling that singing is above all a natural, simple activity.
*Singing connects us with ourselves and with others, with what surrounds us.
=>Thanks to polyphonic musical games, you will hear better, become more aware of and better manage your voice.
Lydie studied classical vocal at conservatories in France and jazz studies at the CIM in Paris.
She was a vocalist in the following bands: Lunatik Jazz Orchestra (first prize of the young at Jazz Avignon in 1993), Iyema Gospel Quartet, Millénium Gospel Voices. She worked in the theatre cabaret Les Petroleuses, participated in recordings for the Memorial of La Marseillaise. For many years she led: singing and jazz initiation workshops in Paris, gospel workshops in secondary schools and primary schools in Marseille.
Since 2003 she has been a co-founder of the group Les Tisseuses d’etoiles, a female vocal trio performing gospel, Afro-American and African songs, with which she regularly tours, collaborating with the Union Nationale de Jeunesses Musicales de France.
In Poland, since October 2012, she has been leading the Łontanara choir, which won the Audience Award at the Mikołajki Folkowe festival in December 2014. In April 2015, together with Mariola Mazurek, she began the Koyemba workshop project, which is a musical journey through Western and Southern Africa. The classes are intended for all lovers of singing, regardless of age and musical advancement. The program consists of: learning songs; emission, breathing and rhythmic exercises; polyphonic singing; elements of song improvisation and interpretation.