Voice and Movement Scores with Mele Broomes
In this workshop we will be exploring ways of manipulating your own voice. You will be working with text, your own voice, and movement to create a melody or sound score using a TC Helicon. This is an electronic voice processor which augments the voice. It is a great tool to support those who are less confident working with their own voice and it is also an exciting creative challenge for those more experienced working with vocals. We will begin with physical and vocal warm ups, followed by tasks to start generating texts and movement.
Working from these texts we will play with pronunciation, projection, softness and quiet, creating different textures of sound. You will be working with the TC Helicon to accompany or create a resistance to your voice. The sound work created in this workshop could be used as a soundscape, to inform movement, or it could be a performance piece in itself.
This session will be held at Glasgow Women’s Library in the Events Space (main hall), on the ground floor. Please follow this link to view details on venue accessibility.
We can reimburse travel costs for to and from the venue on the day, please bring the receipt/ticket.
Mele’s work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Most recently her theatre production GRIN (Made in Scotland Showcase) was presented at Battersea Art Centre, alongside the film production, screened at Theatre Centre Canada and part of Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil. In 2021 Mele was commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre and created Amethyst, a theatre production and digital publication. Mele is co-founder of Project X Dance and was co-director (2017-2021), an organisation that champions dance and performance within the African and Caribbean Diaspora in Scotland. Mele is director and founder of Body Remedy a [forming] ecology that centres physical practice for self-recovery for black people and people of colour who identify as women and non-binary. Remove? Recipient of the Total Theatre Award for her work VOID. Mele has presented work at Take Me Somewhere, CCA, BUZZ CUT, London Contemporary Dance School, The Centre For The Less Good Idea, Dundee Rep Theatre, Festival del Silenzio, SPLAYED Festival, Fringe of Colour Films, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Traverse Theatre, Jupiter Art Land, Dance International Glasgow, Tramway, Dance Base, CONTACT Manchester and Black Gold Art.
The Events Space (main hall), Glasgow Women’s Library
23 Landressy St, G40 1BP
