18.10. The Body of the Voice by Josephine Grundy

Workshop: The Body of the Voice

Facilitator: Josephine Grundy

When: Sunday 18th October

Time: 11:00 am – 13:00 pm

Butoh Dance and Voice Workshop

This workshop explores the possibilities of the voice through the body itself, using breath and the body's relationship with space as its foundation. It seeks to discover sound through the body and movement through the voice. Elements of physical theatre, Butoh dance, and vocal technique are combined to give each participant the opportunity to explore their voice and discover the full range of its expressive possibilities.

We will work with a variety of techniques based on breathing, relaxation, and posture exercises, as well as stretching and the use of mental imagery. We will experiment with vocal projection, becoming aware of different ways of inhabiting space through our physical presence and bringing that awareness into the production of sound. We will explore the body as an object, as a resonating chamber, and as a channel for sound transmission, discovering the wide variety of voices that each body can produce, along with their expressive and musical dimensions.

Butoh dance seeks to reveal each person's authentic movement. The aim of this workshop is to use that same approach to open a path toward freeing each participant's authentic voice.

Josephine Grundy (UK/France) is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher based in Barcelona. Since she was a child she has always been close to music and visual art, and in her butoh practice she explores different possible relationships between body, voice and sound, different materials, and physical matter in general.

Her initial academic training was in Human Sciences at University College London. Then she went on to study the Lecoq physical theatre method in Barcelona, as well as taking workshops and performing with several physical theatre companies. She also has extensive training in vocal technique and lends her voice to a wide range of musical projects and professional recordings.

She began to study butoh dance in 2004 and has been developing her own work ever since, collaborating with other artists and performers, and giving regular classes and workshops.

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