Pedagogy
The Compagnie AirBlow offers awareness-raising sessions, training courses, research laboratories and individual and group coaching that can be adapted on demand, supervised by various artist-educators specializing in disciplines as varied as human beatbox, body drumming, hip-hop and contemporary dance, gestural theater and circus.
Beyond the transmission of a skill or practice, our aim is to leave room for participants' creativity and the expression of their inner selves, and to foster encounters, empathy and humanity within the workshop by encouraging them to create their own languages and let their singularities emerge.
The dynamism of our workshops is also based on collective energy, one of the main objectives being to enjoy the pleasure of being together. All our workshops are adaptable!
Audience
Different intervention formats:
Sensitization/Initiation: Short sessions (1h to 3h) designed to enable neophytes to meet and experience a new practice.
Discovery courses: Training courses from 6h to 15h, enabling participants to grasp the basics of a discipline so as to have the tools to be autonomous in their further development.
Immersion Intensive: 15 to 60 hours of training for beginners or participants with previous experience who want a solid foundation and/or advice on how to develop their skills in the proposed training area.
For the past twenty years, the Cie has been offering awareness-raising activities and workshops on music without instruments, for amateur audiences wishing to have fun and get together around this discipline, with a view to relaxation and personal development.
Various techniques such as human beatbox, Konokol, singing, body and vocal percussion are covered, so that everyone can develop their sense of improvisation while listening to the pleasure of making music in a group.
Cie AirBlow offers a variety of body music workshops;
From vocal acrobatics to body percussion, let Gaspard Herblot and Barth Russo, expert teachers in their disciplines, guide you and give free rein to your creativity!
Gaspard Herblot offers training modules in instrument-free music workshops.
Specialized for some twenty years in the animation of Human Beatbox, Body Drumming, Circles Songs, Slam and Rap and Konokol workshops, having followed numerous training courses in these fields, he proposes exercises and an animation methodology that will enable you to become autonomous in leading body music workshops.
Participants will be introduced to and/or perfect their skills through a wide variety of practical exercises, musical and percussive repertoires and the design of themed modules for different transmission contexts.
He was able to offer his training to musicians from the Lille Conservatory, to which he was associated artist in 2020. He also supervised the creation of the end-of-year show, mobilizing more than a dozen classes for the project. Gaspard offered practical workshops, and supervised the musicians involved in his disciplines for an entire season. He has also been a trainer for the CFMI in Lille on several occasions (see video teaser), as well as in Lyon.
He is also regularly involved in training youth leaders for Belgium's Jeunesses Musicales and offers various training programs on game boots and Abo, very specific styles of body percussion, as well as on Human Beatbox and body percussion, offering subjects that are easily accessible to a school audience.
These courses are also open to artists wishing to develop their practices in these various disciplines.
It has also been able to offer its training content as part of training courses for animators organized by Cepaje and other train-the-trainer organizations.
Training
Human Beatbox - Gaspard Herblot
Rhythm will be approached playfully, and vocal capacities explored without limits. To achieve this, Gaspard proposes techniques specific to contemporary human beatboxers, without losing sight of the fact that this discipline requires inventiveness and individual appropriation of sounds. The idea is to leave plenty of room for participants' creativity, encouraging them to create their own sounds and let their ideas emerge.
Circle Song & Body Music - Gaspard Herblot
In this workshop, Gaspard will share his tools for collective vocal improvisation: Collective compositions / Circle Songs; Movement-sound correspondence; Noise narration.
Circle Song & Body Music - Gaspard Herblot / Nadège Romer
This week, we invite you to explore the body as a musical instrument and the practice of improvised singing in Circle Song. Through singing exercises and body and vocal percussion: human beatbox, skat, konakol, etc., you'll playfully build a toolbox and gain greater freedom of expression. We'll add value to this experience with an end-of-course concert.
Body Drumming - Gaspard Herblot / Thierry Bluy
Thierry's body percussion training program focuses on the following aspects: - Concentration - Memory - Body awareness - Anchoring - Lateralization - Coordination.
Body Music - Gaspard Herblot
This program explores the body as a musical instrument through a range of disciplines including singing, human beatbox, body percussion and Konakol. We'll approach these different practices through exercises specific to each of them, to develop the tools to express yourself in written and improvised collective compositions.
Circle Body Song Music - Barth Russo
Discover and/or perfect your musical body and develop your listening skills and creativity. Have fun improvising and expressing yourself freely in interaction with others. Stimulate the pleasure of inventing your own music in the present moment, with joy and simplicity. Content: a playful warm-up for body and voice, collective improvisation games on body percussion, body in movement and voice.
Energetics, body percussion and polyrhythm - Thierry Bluy
The training consists of body percussion work with the discovery of the body's sound. An energetic warm-up (combining the Musical Body concept with my practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine), followed by exercises of varying difficulty, seated and standing, combining unison work and polyphony/polyrhythm. This whole approach encourages listening, respect for others, group work, coordination of movements, lateralization, self-esteem...
Body Play - Barth Russo
Barth Russo invites you to discover an original formula that combines play and interaction to enhance group dynamics and team cohesion. You'll leave with a toolbox that can be adapted to suit your audience. Content: Rhythm games, music with cups, music with objects, gumboots and body percussion. No prerequisites required. Bring soft clothing, comfortable sneakers and a notepad.
Gumboots - Barth Russo
Gumboots - Barth Russo
Barth Russo invites you to discover and enjoy this ancient practice. Gumboot, sometimes called Gumboots dancing or Gumboots dance, is a type of African percussive dance performed with rubber boots. The dance originated in the early 20th century, during the apartheid era, among the black miners of South Africa. Prior to Gumboots, St. Barth's team will be proposing cooperative, fun and accessible games to create a pleasant and convivial atmosphere for the workshop.
Scratching & DJing Workshop - Younes Ayoute / Kahef
Kahef offers you a workshop to practice or perfect the art of scratching.
Beatmaking & Composition - Marc Bizzini
Experiencing voices in chorus / circle songs - Nadège Romer
This sensitization is centered around a theme: world songs, gospel or other. In improvisation, Nadège transmits some of her choir director's gestural codes and invites you to explore sounds and collective improvisation, which she coordinates in real time to create an ephemeral piece.
Discovering Hip-Hop - Antoine Pedros
Antoine takes young audiences on a journey through the different styles of hip-hop dance. This workshop is designed to set a group in motion and spark passions.
Breakdance & Toprock
Breakdance is a term used to describe a dance style developed in New York in the 1970s, characterized by acrobatics and floor tricks. Kung fu films, capoeira, traditional Cossack dances and gymnastics have also inspired breakers.
Contemporary dance & improvisation - Sylvia Marazzi
First of all, we'll try to develop an attentive ear for our inner bodily sensations, using the release technique to find a way of moving that respects our constitution and motor skills.
Creative dance -Maria Clara Villa-Lobos
This course aims to stimulate the creativity and initiative of children and teenagers. By inviting them to explore their own movement through various improvisations, alone or in relation to others, they gradually gain confidence in their ability to explore and assume their singularity as individuals...
Introduction to contemporary dance -Maria Clara Villa-Lobos
In the form of classes or workshops, this course is aimed at children and teenagers who may not have had any previous contact with contemporary dance. The aim is to help them discover this art form and its particular relationship to the floor, space and others.
Body percussion and non-conventional instruments / Methods for dancers - Sylvie Planche
In this course, Sylvie teaches you how to make music with your body. The body contains an unlimited range of movements, but also hides many sounds that we can use as a musical instrument.
Rythme & troisième âge - Aline Schurgers
For the past 5 years, Aline has been offering adapted rhythm and dance workshops for people with Parkinson's disease accompanied by their families and carers (Kinesiphilia project), as well as in nursing homes.
Rhythm & movement - Isabelle Dubois
In this Rhythm & Movement course, Isabelle and Kevin offer a range of techniques and practices based on music, enabling children to develop in a variety of areas: on the physical level, children have the opportunity to develop knowledge, awareness and control of their bodies.
TakeTina - Aline Schurgers
TaKeTiNa is a process for activating musical and human potential. It initiates a multisensory understanding of rhythm through different channels of perception (auditory, visual, kinaesthetic), gradually connecting us to the forgotten power of rhythm that resides within each of us.
Juggling and Musicality - Gaspard Herblot
Rhythmic and movement work + reflection on the aesthetics of the juggling "number" and fundamental notions linked to its composition + writing & composition + musicality and expressiveness. PREPARATION PHASE: rhythmic work, body work, breathing, centering, relaxation, balance work, juggling techniques. APPLICATION TO OUR JUGGLING TECHNIQUES: In a second phase, we'll apply rhythmic work to our juggling phrases, which we'll seek to inscribe in rhythmic cycles. Drawing in space: During this research phase, we'll try to become aware of the shapes we're showing, and the path we're writing in space. Associations between body and object movements, impact of music on movement phrases, writing and composition, aesthetics of writing a solo juggling "number", being, playing, proposing a universe.
Acrobatic Lifting and Human Pyramids - Gaspard Herblot
Juggling techniques - Priam Perret / Gaspard Herblot / Isabelle Dubois
Introduction to the circus - Dorothée Hazebrouck
Dorothée invites you to discover juggling in all its forms (scarves, Chinese plates, diabolo, balls, flower sticks...), as well as any other techniques on offer (balance, acrobatics, acrobatics, clowning...). All of this in a fun way, adapted to the desired age group and the setting of the event. Skill, coordination, dexterity, concentration, creativity, cooperation and fun will all be required to enter the wonderful world of the circus.
Clown - Julien Pinaud
Julien invites you to immerse yourself in the world of clowning and clownish creativity. We'll enter this universe through the doors of breath, bones, flesh, the senses, the body in movement and "de-autoroutage"... Getting off the highways of thought and social postures, slowing down to rediscover ourselves in relation to a new perception of ourselves and the world in which we are part.
Clown / Stage presence / Magic - Mehdi Béduin
Resistance and fun / Clown - Carina Bonan
These workshops provide artists with a space for research work, enabling them to live and evolve their clowning practice on a daily basis, to give birth to desires, to create artistic affinities, to place the adventure before the result, and to bring about encounters during public sessions.
Suzuki and Viewpoints training - Clément
Clément offers you actor training based on a dialogue between the Suzuki method and Viewpoints. These techniques use diametrically opposed approaches to reinforce presence and availability on stage. They work to give the artist permanent control over his tool, enabling him to make conscious, deliberate choices, as close as possible to his instincts, but above all attentive to the collective. While questioning the notions of individual will and the necessity of the whole (with the philosophical and political implications that this conveys), they sharpen listening skills and spatial and temporal sensitivity, while offering a genuine physical and vocal tool.
Comic workshop - Kahef
In this comics workshop, Kahef offers you the chance to work on character creation, learning how to write and cut a script, as well as inking and creating a cover.
CAD workshop - Computer-aided design (Photoshop) - With Kahef
The computer-assisted drawing workshop focuses on learning to draw on a Wacom graphics tablet.
Drawing workshop - Kahef
This drawing workshop, offered by Kahef, focuses on learning academic drawing such as perspective, volume and character sketches. For those over 18, there is also the possibility of sketching with a live model.
Graffiti workshop - Kahef
Graffiti workshop by Kahef. He works on the research and development of each individual's drawing and style.
Illustration workshop - Kahef
Kahef's illustration workshop focuses on developing drawing skills and finding one's own style. It focuses on learning techniques and the layout of characters and settings.
Slam et Rap, l'écrire pour le dire - Gaspard Herblot
In these training courses, the instructor proposes working on rhythm, tackling the notion of time and measures, working on writing, how to develop your text and follow a theme or go freestyle in your writing. How to change flow and rhythm on an instrument, preparing for recording, working on interpretation, etc. Our aim is to make poetry accessible to all, and to help people move beyond elitist conceptions of poetry. The various exercises on offer will enable you to break down aesthetic barriers and play with genres through song, nursery rhyme, rap, sound poetry and lyricism.
