Workshops
Tot Zondag 31 Januari 2016
In The Beginning there was Air…
..air inside…and air outside
The Tunisian singer and storyteller Lamia Bedioui will lead a workshop on the interaction between voice and breath.
Saturday the 30th and Sunday the 31st of January 2016, 11:00-14:00 and 15:30-18:30
In order for the workshop to take place a group must be completed so please contact Lamia:
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Some details…
Voice is born, coordinated, and constantly modulated by the breathing process so that the tones we produce are intrinsically related to the way we inhale and exhale. This is the foundation of the voice: the study of breathing and how it changes the quality of phonation.
Based on this thought, we will look for the relationship between air and sound in speaking and singing. We will look for how to activate our sound in a relaxed manner as well as how to manage breathing without straining our vocal cords during the synergy between body, sound and air.
The seminar will be based on the following:
- Posture, alignment and body relaxation.
- Breathing awareness during the phases of voice activation and relaxation.
- Breathing release: Diaphragmatic exercises in order to rediscover the diaphragm’s flexibility, mobility and relaxation .
- The connection between sound and diaphragm : we will work on this by using text and song.
This workshop is addressed to those who are interested to learn more about their voice and to those who are already working with it: story tellers, singers, parents, students, teachers, actors, public speakers … and those over the age of 14.
Accommodation is available.
On Friday the 29th of January 2016, 21:00 Lamia will present a Narration Performance
Tales of the Arab world and the Western world
Love, sacrifice, jealousy, magic, trials, metamorphosis are all elements of fairy tales, both in the Arabic and the Western world. These fairy tales talk of magical worlds subject to laws that are different to those of the real world, and where time flows at a different pace. But they are worlds that touch our emotions, our fears and our hopes.
Lamia Bedioui is a Tunisian singer and story teller, living in Greece since 1992.
She studied Economics at the University of Tunis where she gained her Bachelor’s and
Master’s degree. She studied music and singing at the Tunis Conservatory and
at the National Conservatory of Athens. She has also attended many body-movement,
voice-training and theater workshops.
From 2002 until 2010, she participated at the Vocal Art’s Workshop under the Greek
baritone Spyros Sakkas.
In 2012, she graduated from the story-telling School of Athens (Center for Myth and
Fairy Tales studies).She is a founding member of the House of Oral Tradition
« Mythologio ».
Her professional career in singing started in 1995. Her repertoire embraces mainly
traditional music and songs from the countries around the Mediterranean as well as
contemporary vocal compositions. She has collaborated with many Greek and
international singers, musicians and performers of the Ethnic and Jazz music scenes
such as Savina Yiannatou, Jon Balke, Wouter Vandenabeele, El jazzeera, Estudiantina
Orchestra, Nikos Kipourgos…
She has participated in the creation of several music albums:
Songs of the Mediterranean, Terra Nostra, In Gedeonis Area, Krotala, Basse classe ,Metamorf….
Her first personal CD “ Fin’Amor ” in collaboration with the performer and percussionist Solis Barki was released in 2006.
The new album “ Athamra “ was released in April 2015 .
She frequently appears in music scenes and venues in Athens and all over Greece as well as in international music festivals ( Belgium, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Tunisia, France...).
She has also participated as a performer and singer in theater productions and modern dance performances amongst which are
Maria Panoutsou, Natasha Zouka, Marina Mergou, Alessandra Maioletti, Ermira Goro…