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20 March 2024Musicality of the Body
An in-depth exploration of the relationship between body, voice, text and music
Coordination: Rafał Habel
Duration: 30 hours
Language: English
2 - 8 September
(2.9 arrival date / 8.9 departure date)
This workshop is physical at its core and ensemble based. Through a flow of movement and breath we can awaken sound vibrations within the body resonating the bones and tissues creating a visceral understanding of the voice and awakening new possibilities for song, text and vocal improvisation. Every aspect of the work creates a deep sense of listening and responsiveness to the impulses that arise within one’s own body and from the collective ensemble.
Through a physical approach to performance training, we strive to reveal the honest and authentic body, thus revealing the inner life of the performer and bringing the entire creative process to life. We will deepen the body-voice connection and explore how sound is derived and physically experienced. This workshop contributes to the actor’s technique, dance, singing disciplines, musical and physical theatre by awakening a sense of internal and external rhythm, working with physical impulse, spatial awareness and focus. Each exercise will deepen the body’s connection to impulses and stimulus and gradually interconnect all aspects of the craft. The manifestation of the work is dynamic, contemplative and entirely musical.
Rafał Habel
Rafał Habel, from Poland, is an actor, pedagog, teacher and musician whose work is a culmination of 30 years of research, practice and performance in a unique genre of ensemble devised, music based- physical theatre. Rafał has developed a profound understanding of the ensemble and theatrical development and with that a deep understanding of the connection between movement, voice, music, text and rhythm.
Rafał was a member of the internationally renowned Polish theatre company, Song of the Goat Theatre, from its inception in 1996 to 2018. Rafał has been a key collaborator in the devising process of almost all of Song of the Goat’s performances which have won numerous awards and critical acclaim throughout the world including the Edinburgh Festival "Fringe First" in 2006 and 2012. Performances include – Dithyramb; Chronicles- A Lamentation; Lacrimosa; Macbeth; Songs of Lear; Portraits of the Cherry Orchard; Return to the Voice; Umilowanie: Dead Walk Love; Hamlet A Commentary and The Grand Inquisitor. Rafał has performed and taught throughout Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia.
In 2020 Rafał collaborated as a musician and actor in The Bacchae, Body without Body which premiered in the 4th International Laboratory of Ancient Drama in the Ancient Theatre of Filippoi in Kavala, Greece, under the direction of Rinio Kyriazi.
in 2021 collaborated with Alexandra Kazazou & Karol Jarek on a performance Χορείες Χώρων / Species Of Spaces by Transatlantic Theatre performed in Archaeological Site of Ancient Corinth and Β’ Αρχαίο Θέατρο Λάρισας, Ancient Theater of Larissa.
In 2023 premiere of collaboration with Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou on hers composition called Άϊζο performed in Athens and Ionian University of Corfu
Rafał was a member of the award winning Polish chamber folk music group Lautari and his intuitive sense of musicianship and rhythm has led him to learn various instruments from around the world with which he has created original soundscapes and compositions for the theatre. He currently collaborates with the Slovakian theatre company Honey and Dust devised and premiered Uninteresting Scream which tours internationally and SACRUM. Rafał also collaborated with Bread in the Bone Theatre company in Poland and England, creating Unreal City and Don Quixote.
Rafał has taught masterclasses at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Irvine. He taught on the MA in Acting course through Manchester Metropolitan University run by Song of the Goat Theatre in Poland from 2004-2012, as well as at Rose Bruford College; London School of Performance Practices; and was a teacher for Song of the Goat Theatre from 2004-2018. Rafał teaches workshops and masterclasses regularly throughout Europe.