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.
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.