☆ INDIAN RHYTHM WORKSHOP – Rashmi V. Bhatt
A workshop of rhythms in Indian culture (both classical and folk) with the world-famous tablist from India and the ways of their fusion with European music.
During the workshop, you will learn briefly about the history of Indian music and the aesthetics of patterns such as raga and tala will be explained, and how to juggle them in complex rhythmic expressions. The workshop will also show how to vocalize rhythms and of course there will be a place for what Kontak people love the most – improvisation.
The workshop is intended for everyone: musicians (all instrumentalists and vocalists), both professionals – especially jazz musicians and amateurs, dancers
We ask that each participant bring their own instrument. It can be a drum, guitar, cello, your own voice or a dance outfit (in the case of dancers).
Duration 4h, (2 * 2h)
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☆ DEEP SELF-HEALING VOICE WORKSHOP – Weronika Mietelska
The self-healing power of the voice workshop focuses on feeling the voice in the body. It shows that each of us can play a Buddhist monk and learn how to massage our internal organs with our voice, stimulate digestion, relax the intestines and energize our hands and other selected parts of the body. In addition to substantive knowledge, this workshop provides participants with very deep relaxation.
In the second module, it focuses on leading the voice outside, emission exercises are shown so that at the end each participant can sing in improvisation what is in their soul.
The workshop has a therapeutic effect and brings blocked emotions to the surface. Most often, the participants increase their assertiveness (due to belly singing).
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EVENT DETAILS:
DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 8
– g. 12:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m. – SELF-HEALING POWER OF VOICE WORKSHOP with Weronika Mietelska
– g. 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – INDIAN RHYTHM WORKSHOP – Rashmi V. Bhatt
PRICE:
👉 Indian Rhythms workshops only – PLN 150
👉 The SELF-HEALING POWER OF VOICE workshops alone – PLN 80
👉 Participation in BOTH WORKSHOPS – PLN 200
📣 Reservations: w.mietelska@protonmail.com
Please provide your name and the name of the workshop/workshops
If you have any questions about the event, you can contact us via chat on the fanpage:
Weronika Mietelska & Kathara Alchemy of Sound
by phone 511 910 159 (Magda)
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
(what to bring and how to prepare):
Your convenience, comfort and relaxation is an important issue, therefore:
– it is worth wearing comfortable clothes that do not restrict movement,
– take a mat (you can also use mats in our space), a small pillow and a blanket (we also have blankets on site in Kontakt).
– hydration – there will be teas and water, but it’s worth taking your own water bottle
📣IMPORTANT: remember to arrive at the event site 10 minutes earlier.
🍀 ABOUT THE LEADERS
RASHMI W. BHATT
Drummer/artistic director of international festivals.
Born in India, Rashmi V. Bhatt grew up in Pondicherry, in an environment steeped in dance, theater and Indian music. He studied the art of tabla, a typical Indian percussion game, with SHRI TORUN BANERJEE. After obtaining a master’s degree in French literature, he won a prestigious scholarship to study Italian art history in Florence, where he also studied ethnomusicology. Thanks to his knowledge of various ancient musical traditions, he is constantly invited to the Art Direct International World Music Festivals. He invited Artists from India, Vietnam, China, Japan, Korea for concerts with such masters as Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussein, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pandit Kamalesh Maitra Tabla Tarang maestro, Debiprasad Ghosh, Pandit Chaurasia, Pandit Arvind Parikh, with Ostad Mohammad Eqbal and Majid Darakhshani from Iran, etc. in France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Italy, Dubai, Morocco and Tunisia.
He is fascinated by the possibility of experimenting and combining different ethnic groups and their musical languages. He collaborated with musicians such as Kenyan singer AYUB OKAD, German trumpeter MARCUS STOCKHAUSEN, famous Pakistani singer NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN, guitarist and Canadian producer MICHAEL POTOK. He recently toured Africa with Gabin Dabire and toured with world famous pop singer SHAKIRA and later STING. In recent years, his main research has been focused on discovering different cultures and their musical languages, hence the variety of projects with musicians from countries from MOROCCO to PERSIAN, from AFGHANISTAN to MALI, from SYRIA to BRAZIL. He was invited to perform at the prestigious WOMEX FESTIVAL in October 2010 in Copenhagen. He is the artistic director of the WORLD RHYTHM FESTIVAL in Italy.
Rashmi is often invited to international congresses, where he presents the History of Indian Music and talks about Raga Structures and Rhythms of Indian Classical Music. He also does the same at the National Conservatories of Music in Italy, France and Spain, and runs RHYTHM Workshops for children across Europe for the interaction between two cultures called INTERCULTURE, which helps a lot in integrating different cultures.
He lives between Rome in Italy and Pondicherry in South India. The Government of India awarded him the Indian Cultural Ambassador Award twice.
Maestro Bhatt, apart from the musician, has several passionate affairs with the history of art, astrophysics, archeology and … surfing.
WERONIKA MIETELSKA – vocalist, composer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist. She studied at the Italian university Istituto Superiore di Studii Musicali Achille Peri – Claudio Merulo in the solo singing class of prof. Mauro Trombetta. She was a scholarship holder of the conductor la Scala, St. In memory of Maestro Nicola Sgro. She started with classical music as well as choral and solo singing, and together with the Ars Cantata choir she performed on many prestigious Polish and foreign stages. Then she took up latin jazz, jazz music and discovered her true love – improvised music. She took part in many Polish and foreign master classes, e.g. with teachers such as: Felton Crews (bassist of Miles Davis), Raina Kabaivanska, Irena Jezierska, Wassim Ibrahim, Olga Boczar, Aneta Łastik, Shai Dayan. She has given concerts in many European countries, including Italy, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, as well as in Africa (e.g. at the “Gnawa” festival in Morocco, promoted by Marcus Miller, and many in Poland, e.g. Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio.
In addition to working with the voice, she is also passionate about working with the body. She is the author and performer of the music and dance project MoveAsound. She graduated from, among others bodywork course with the Lowen method in Krakow, conducted by Anna Dymarczyk, Qigong by Tomasz Eichelberger.
She has created her own method of working with the human voice, in which she combines knowledge derived from various vocal techniques and working with the body, thanks to which she shows the entire spectrum of possibilities of using the human voice in her classes.
Privately, a lover of slow traveling and playing on the street, because these two things, as she claims, taught her more than courses, studies and the stage.