Voice & Rhythm
voice as a basic music organ

How close can we come to actually producing the intimacy of sounds that live within us?
Of all the means by which we express ourselves, voice is by far the most intimate revelation of our essential self. The voice is said to be a repository of everything that we have acquired. It is such an intimate part of us, as characteristically and personally our own that each of us is able to identify the other on the phone after we speak little more than one syllable.
After having studied with some of the most renowned figures of the world including members of The Roy Hart Theatre and Meredith Monk, I cannot help but believe that some aspects of the voice are universal and that we are all touched by a certain register of human musical scales that are within each one of us, an ongoing orchestration of sounds and music that reflect the poetry of our singularity.
The workshop will be based on a series of technical vocal and physical exercises followed by various performance tools adopted from theatre and performance work that Charmaine has been developing over a number of years.


Charmaine LeBlanc
Charmaine is a vocalist, composer, percussionist who has had the opportunity of crossing over into several artistic fields. She has written scores and performed for dance, theatre, film and television. Charmaine has had the privilege of working alongside some of the worlds most renowned voice teachers and has worked with some of the most internationally acclaimed directors and choreographerssuch as: Margie Gillis, Gerald Casel, Risa Steinberg, Angélique Willkie, Luc Tremblay und Les Gens d’R. Also she is accompyning for many institutions and teachers a.o. at Ladmmi Montréal, José Limón Institute, Concorde University, New School for the Arts Amsterdam. She has started her own company The Red Rabbit Project. Charmaine continues to coach at the Cirque deu Soleil and Franco Dragone’s company in Las Vegas.