The Embodied Voice Flow approach invites you to re-discover an intimate and empowered relationship with your primal voice and its profound sensitivity. Through a series of somatic investigations into deep listening, embodied vocality, musical instinct, and Collaborative Vocal Improvisation, EVF opens a shared space to connect with the pleasure and healing qualities of creating music with breath, voice, mouth, and body — and with our innate instinct for expression and relational music-making.
The overall trajectory follows a clear progression: from the functional aspects of voice and body (breath anatomy, elements of acoustics and phonetics), through practices of vocal release, and into the realm of improvised musical flow — the “music of the now.”


THE CORE PRACTICES ARE:

> Deep listening: the contemplative practice of receiving sound vibration through the body in an unfiltered way, as a gateway to our consciousness.
> Voice embodiment: experiencing voice and body as an integrated whole, dialoguing with the vibrational nature of your voice through somatic exploration and touch work.
> Estill Voice Technique: a modern pedagogical method, to develop fine awareness around the anatomical components involved in human phonation and singing.
> Pulsing/tuning: working with spontaneous pulsations and melodies as a way to experiencing music in a playful, intimate, naked sense; connecting with your creative source by surrendering into the music of the moment.
> Collaborative Vocal Improvisation: organising emerging percussive-melodic patterns in a collective musical flow within improvised sound journeys.


Haptic Voice
We start by approaching our voice through touch: with hands-on work we bring our attention to the sensations arising from the mouth cavity, the waves of breath, the impulses to move, and the musical imagination that comes with these. We invite the experience of sound as molecular vibration, as a tactile input from-within-and-to the body. We look at the anatomy of key structures (diaphragm, larynx, mouth cavity) and experience the dancing dialogues that exist between them, enjoying moving through these areas in a sound-inclusive way. 

Pulsing | Tuning
From this state of soft embodiment, we look at elements of phonetics to explore the ongoing choreography of vowels and consonants production, tuning- in to the dance of the articulators (tongue, lips, teeth, soft palate) that we experience subconsciously in our daily life. Regressing to this micro-level of coordination, we tune our listening to the complex rhythms that are present in our speech, breath, movement, and learn how to harness these micro-beats to create improvised percussive vocal music. We access the endless possibilities of pulsations, sound textures and melodies, organising them through real-time phrasing and instant compositions. 

Intuitive Songs
In the last part of the session we open a space for improvised choral songs based on the repetition of simple vocal modules and collective musical entrainment. This is a moment of celebration and togetherness, of witnessing together music taking shape through a circular process of repetition, layering, refinement, transformation, osmosis, friction, story telling, individuality and connectivity. Each Circle Song is a river which we float upon, following its flow all the way through to see where it leads us.

The workshop is open to physical performers, musicians, artists and practitioners of different experience levels.

>> Alessio Castellacci is a voice and movement practitioner, teacher, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of contemporary dance, singing improvisation, somatic and psychological approaches, and ecological practices. His work explores voice as an embodied, relational, and creative process, closely connected to movement, perception, and group dynamics.

After studying Developmental Psychology (La Sapienza University - Italy) and Choreography (Artez Institute – the Netherlands), Alessio has worked since 2007 as a contemporary dancer and a sound composer for various choreographers in Europe, focusing for the last 20 years to the exploration of the expressive possibilities of the human voice, and has since developed a pedagogical approach for voice & movement improvisation called Embodied Voice Flow.
 
For the last 20 years Alessio has been a regular guest teacher in different venues in Europe (a.o. Tanzhaus Zurich, Improspeckje Festival Zagreb, Altart Praha, Wasp Bucharest, Tanzfabrik Berlin, SMASH Berlin, ROAR Berlin, Dans Centrum Syd Malmö, Dance BA Oslo, K3 Hamburg, Hzt BA Berlin, Choreography BA Rejkyavik, Dance BA Copenhagen, BARD College Berlin, University of Osnabrück.
Since 2014 Alessio runs with voice artist and teacher Irena Z. Tomažin The World is Sound (TWIS), a platform for sound and voice practices based in Berlin. Alessio is a certified Estill Figure Proficiency (EFP) practitioner of the Estill Voice Technique, and a certified IFS (Internal Family System) Level 1 Practitioner.