Soundwork / Improvisation / Circus and Performance Skills by Jennifer Cohen and Noam Helfer
When: 25. 10. 2024 – 27.10.2024
Times: Friday 17:00-20:30, Saturday 10:30-16:00, Sunday 10:30-15:30 + 19:00-21:30 (Performance and Jam Session)
Where: Katapult, Wilhelminenhofstraße 91, 12459 Berlin
Teachers: Jennifer Cohen & Noam Helfer
The workshop is designed for circus artists from all disciplines who wish to enhance their musical abilities, both in performance and conceptually, as well as to improve their improvisation and performance skills. It is also suitable for musicians and soundtrack designers seeking to improve their ability to create a shared language with creators from other fields.
What will we do?
Over the course of three days, we will explore fundamental concepts in music and rhythm, work with the voice, and learn how to integrate these with various circus skills. We will deepen our understanding of the significant and intricate relationship between movement and the music that supports it.
We will explore through body work, vocal exercises, rhythm exercises, and coordination development. Through deep listening, we will enhance our improvisational abilities and expand our vocabulary to accurately design soundtracks for our creations.
At the end of each day, we will process everything we have learned through “Impro-Scores” – structured improvisation sequences.
On Sunday evening, at the end of the workshop, it’s time to integrate the learned material. We will hold an open presentation for the audience, showcasing all the concepts and techniques we touched upon during the workshop. These will be interwoven into both pre-written and improvised movement and musical sequences. Afterward, we will continue with an open jam session with live music.
Noam Helfer
Musical Entrepreneur, Sound artist, Singer, and an Artistic Experience Designer. His artistic ventures are very dynamic, but can be narrowed down to 3 main channels of creation:
- A vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist. In his recording studio he collaborates and releases music under the monikers – Helfer and Age is a Box. He works with various colorful artists such as Kamila, Oren Lavie, Roy Avital – Garden City Movement, Totemo, Idil Meśe and many more.
- He composes soundtracks for many world-known Choreographers
(Sharon Friedman, Fresco, Vertigo, Lior Tavori, Daniel Elnuma and many more). - He curates, directs and produces multi-disciplinary conceptual art events under the name “Capsula”.
Jennifer Cohen
Contemporary poetic performer, Circus artist, Creator and Choreographer.
Jenny is exploring life and the physical-mental body as a tool of individual and collective healing process. She uses different circus disciplines for expressing her inner world and artistic perspective. Her stage experience is wide and dynamic, and includes personal creation projects alongside
performances around the world.
In her personal development and research, Jenny combines dynamic
effortless technique, synced relaxed breath work, and deep listening to the
changing body center points.
She performs with the companies Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Plume and many more.
The workshop will provide practical tools to assist you in developing your personal creative expression - musically and performatively. We’ll also learn how to communicate effectively with the soundtrack designers you'll collaborate with throughout your career.
Click here for the full schedule
1 Day 25.10.2024
16:00 Technical installation
17:00 Opening talk
17:30 Vocal & Body warmup
19:00 Break
19:15 Impro – Score
20:00 Integration
20:30 Technical Arrangement
2 Day 26.10.2024
10:30 Technical installation
11:00 Vocal & Body warmup
12:00 Rhythm
13:00 Vocabulary
14:00 Break
14:30 Impro – Score
15:30 Integration
16:00 Technical arrangement
3 Day 27.10.2024
10:30 Technical installation
11:00 Vocal & Body warmup
12:00 Rhythm
13:00 Vocabulary
14:00 Break
14:30 Impro – Score
15:30 Integration
Break Time
18:00 Meeting and preparation
19:00 Gathering
19:30 Presentation
20:30-22:00 Impro-Jam
Prices:
Early bird: 175€
Regular price: 190€
At the door: 200€
* We would like to thank the Israeli embassy for supporting us so that this WS could take place.
** It’d be super helpful if you can support us by bringing your own equipment by yourself.
