Rebellion is an initiation of change. Real change is only ever fueled by real desire, in real relationship. How can we enact meaningful change in our lives, relationships, or broader circles unless we also play with changing our own patterns of honesty, movement and expression? We gather in Voice Rebellion to play with change within our own bodies and voices. We access permission, inspiration, encouragement in community, to deepen our individual palette of expression colors. Presence, honest noticing, intuitive impulse, truthful sharing or intentional obscuring, singing, listening. The voice may have it’s own desires on it’s own terms (to warm up, to yell, to lilt, to belt, to mutter, to lullaby, to stay silent), and also, what may the voice want to receive in what space, from it’s current listeners (support, presence, encouragement, neutrality, challenge, critical impression, applause)? Do you want to be noticed or read or celebrated or challenged or ignored?
This workshop offers a permissive space to listen to one’s own body’s authentic desires, for bigness or smallness, for connection or aloneness. Movement, vocalizing, singing, sharing will be boldly invited while not required in any particular form.
Registration and materials- $35
Scholarships available! Reach out to Amanda at airwin@hartcluett.org or 518-272-7232 x 115
RHYS TIVEY is a teacher (voice and yoga), and artist (singer, trumpeter, songwriter, music producer, and actor) based in NYC.
As a voice teacher and founder of Voice Brave, Rhys infuses research-based techniques for sustainable vocal growth with yoga, qi-gong, and holistic intuitive embodiment rooted movement, song interpretation, vocal improv and songwriting, offering both individual private lessons and group facilitation. He trained as a yoga teacher at Integral Yoga Institute NYC.
As a musician, he grew up in upstate New York playing jazz and orchestral trumpet, performing in Carnegie Hall, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic with Albany ESYO. After graduating from NYU for jazz trumpet, he dove into developing his sound as a vocalist, songwriter, and producer, taking inspiration from an eclectic mix of musical influence (Thom Yorke, Phil Collins, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Tribe Called Quest, and Miles Davis), while incorporating jazz and symphonic elements absorbed during his trumpet studies. After several years of performing in LA and NYC, Rhys joined grammy nominated engineer Mike Tierney, and mastering engineer Alex DeTurk (D'Angelo, David Bowie), to release his first album in 2020 mid-pandemic, entitled “Unsteady” ( rhystivey.com ). Much of the project was born from demos recorded in the few off hours working as a farm apprentice at Hawthorne Valley Farm, and completed at Mike Tierney's Shiny Things Studio in BedStuy Brooklyn, bridging rural and urban backdrops for it's songwriting and sonic essence. As a music producer, his most recent release with Ukrainian singer songwriter Kseniia, "100 words about the war", honors the Ukrainian war.
As an actor / mover / performance artist, he collaborated with director Daniel Irizarry and writer Robert Lyons in “My Onliness” at the New Ohio Theater in NYC in 2021 and 2022, appearing as the character of "the Writer" (for which Theatre Mania calls him “an exhibitionist with a clarion voice”, in “The Most Singularly Insane Show In New York”). Also with Irizarry and Lyons, in summer of 2023, he acted, composed, and sang in the final performance of New Ohio Theater’s 30 year legacy, with “Ultra Left Violence”, with additional residency workshops at Mercury Store BK and North American Cultural Laboratory. In fall 2023, he acted in Marcel Dzama’s film “To Live On The Moon” through MOMA’s Performa NYC, with live performance infused screenings at Abron’s Arts. Beginning Spring 2023, Rhys performed as Oberon and Theseus in Neopolitical Cowgirl’s Midsummer Night's Dream at HERE Arts Center, with additional performances at Longhouse Reserve and LTV in Easthampton NY. He has also performed in underground Nie Theater of Berlin, as well in Phoebe Legere’s Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Reality Show at Theater for the New City. With performance art duo, Elk and Feather, he has performed at CREST Fest, Five Myles BK, and in residency at Signs and Symbols Art Gallery, and in March 2023 joined choreographer Natalie Deryn Johnson as resident composer and dancer at Keshet Dance’s Makers Space Residency in New Mexico.
Learn more about Rhys' work here:
voicebrave.com | www.rhystivey.com
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