BODY MUSIC
Body percussion is a technique of using our body as a percussive instrument: learning different ways to clap, snap, thump and stomp, and also making unusual sounds we can play with our hands, mouth, fingers, etc. During the Alice in WonderBand‘s workshop Body as an instrument we put the focus also on techniques of breathing and singing, as this is an instrument we always have handy with us and which we can use in any moment.
Singing and body percussion combined we call body music.
Welcome to the first New Balkan Rhythm festival: workshops of body music of Anna Llombart, Max Pollak, Ben Schuetz, Alice in WonderBand, performances and delightful cultural experience.
Join us in September in first body music festival in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia – New Balkan Rhythm festival.
AWb had a concert of body muisc from Balkans in Zagreb and workshop of irregular rhythms from Balkans in Samobor in February in Croatia.
Body music can be used as a powerful tool in social inclusion and the workshops of body music can be a way of overcoming of social and cultural differences. As participants in different projects with goal of implementation of art in social inclusion, leaders of the workshop have had experience of how Body as an instrument workshops can significantly improve skills of some specific, unprivileged groups.
ConneXt youth exchange was held for the second time in Popovica in Fruska gora and we held workshops to young artists from Switzerland and Serbia.
Alice in WonderBand is a duo of performers bringing together world music and odd beats from the Balkans with body music and body percussion.