Sounding Bodies Program
2024-10-20
Session 1: Theme-Water.
Introduction games - movement and voice play. Sutartinės - singing and brief introduction to musical theory and their cultural significance. Interactive musical storytelling. Calming Aerial Yoga with Tibetan bowls and shruti music.
2024-10-27
Session 2: Theme-Water
Recording environmental sounds, exploration and movement practices. Introduction to voice acting and field recording. Interactive storytelling improvisation through voice and movement- create the story of the river through experimental movement and voice and recorder surrounding sounds.
What does Vilnelė sound like? How does the sound of the river move in your body? Can you sing like the river?
2024-11-03
Session 3: Theme-Earth
Grounding Yoga practice with Shruti music. Followed by contrast of weightlessness in Aerial Yoga. Grounding your voice through play. Storytelling about Earth (Žemyna/Gaya) - interactive listening and drumming. Sutartinė - group singing- developing listening skills and singing in a group.
2024-11-10
Session 4: Theme-Earth
Vocal Recording and Theatrical Games fostering spontaneity and collaboration. Circle Improvisational Singing and Voice Dubbing. Sutartinė - group singing- developing listening skills and singing in a group. How can we bring our voices to life through play?
2024-11-17
Session 5: Theme-Fire
Unconventional Yoga with rhythmic music- connect rhythm, breath, and strength through empowering music and movement. Object Story Creation - bring everyday objects to life using voice and movement, giving them personality and narrative. Mythological Storytelling about fire. Incorporating mythological narratives into movement, embodying characters and scenes based on the myth.
How can movement express the power of fire in storytelling?
2024-11-24
Session 6: Theme-Fire
Aerial Yoga. Experience the combination of aerial silks and traditional yoga to expand your physical awareness. Breathwork exercises- fire breathing warmup. Vocal Dance. Experiment with new sounds movements, connecting your voice to movement in pairs. Sutartinės songs about fire and Sun. Brief introduction to the symbolism of the Sun and its significance to ancient Lithuanian culture. Wild fire dance - free improvisation with instruments, voice and movement based on what we’ve learned so far.
2024-12-01
Session 7: Theme-Air
Yogic breathing and vocal exercises. Discovering the connection of breath and voice within our bodies. Sutartinės. Continuing with group singing, experimenting with vocal harmonies and rhythms. Mythical story telling about Wind and Air combined with interactive listening and drumming. Aerial Yoga- deepening connection to our bodies, moving with the air that surrounds us.
2024-12-08
Session 8: Theme-Air
Sound and singing meditation with shruti. Engaging in activities that we explored so far. Free form reflection about the program.
What is your personal myth? Symbolic drawings, songs and /or dance about the experience of the program. How did you feel when you came here for the first time? Was there an activity that made you feel anxious at first? What was your favorite part? How do you feel now?
Symbolic ritual to end the program - releasing our experience to Vilnelė with the help of the four elements - Water, Earth, Fire and Air. Together with the parents, we will engage in Sutartinės and we’ll celebrate the experience we had together.