Workshop | Frame Drum (HER)Stories. Masterclass for Body, Voice and Drum with Rachele Andrioli, Barbara Crescimanno, Hiram Salsano
The FDH masterclass – open to those who have at least one year of study on the instrument – is a path led by teachers from different areas of Southern Italy (Puglia, Sicily, Campania) that will accompany the participants in an exploration of the female vocal and percussive repertoire of Southern Italy, together with the relationship between the movement of the body and the drum from the techniques of the Greek choir on the rhythmic-choreutic movement in space.
Starting from the exploration of the dynamics of the percussion circle, the work will open to movement that crosses space, investigating the mechanisms of physical-rhythmic relation of bodies and sounds in the row and array, to reach the complex forms of the diamond, of the flock and the three-dimensionality of the chorus in space, facing dynamics of openness and relationship to the outside.
Through the instruments of choreutic movement, traditional singing and percussion we will work on homophony/ unison and vocal and percussive polyrhythms; on the voice linked to the gesture and movement; on the drum as musical instrument and expressive instrument in the rhythmic/ sound gesture: COORDINATION between movement of the BODY, rhythmic on the DRUM and VOICE in the convergences and divergences of rhythm and movement; rhythms in beating and in lifting; introduction of pauses, times doubled and halved; pulsation of base and rhythmic cells; rhythms in 2, 3 and successive combinations.
The work – complemented by the individual participants’ skills and abilities – will encourage creation and artistic expression conceived in a group, to learn to measure up with, and master, the mechanisms of collective creation. This working methodology is the basis of communication and community-building mechanisms, and trains practices for welcoming and creating inclusive spaces and contexts of comparison and mutual support.
During the masterclass will be built structures and moving actions that will accompany the songs sung and played in a tangle between voice, movement and rhythmic sound for the final return, Saturday 16 August.
Rachele Andrioli
Vocal repertoire, percussive techniques
Barbara Crescimanno
Vocal repertoire, percussive techniques, Greek chorus techniques
Hiram Salsano
Vocal repertoire, percussive techniques
INFO & SCHEDULE
The masterclass includes two group lessons each day (morning and afternoon).
Additional small group sessions may be scheduled by the instructors, based on a personalized teaching approach developed with the participants.
PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL LESSONS can be requested via email. Feel free to contact us for any questions or additional information: retreat.mwf@gmail.com
The masterclass includes the arrangement of a short final performance by the students during the concert on Saturday, August 16, as a way to share the work developed.
SCHEDULE
WED 13/08
10:00 RACHELE ANDRIOLI
16:00 BARBARA CRESCIMANNO and RACHELE ANDRIOLI
THU 14/08
10:00 RACHELE ANDRIOLI
16:00 BARBARA CRESCIMANNO and HIRAM SALSANO
FRI 15/08
10:00 RACHELE ANDRIOLI and BARBARA CRESCIMANNO
16:00 HIRAM SALSANO and BARBARA CRESCIMANNO
SAT 16/08
10:00 HIRAM SALSANO and BARBARA CRESCIMANNO
16:00 Final performance preparation
For those who wish to attend the masterclasses without taking part in the full residential retreat, it will be possible to book the masterclasses only starting from July 30. You may choose to attend the full 4-day course or single lessons.
Single lesson: €30
Full course: €200
Note: The “JUST the MASTERCLASS” option does not include access to the venue outside class times, nor participation in the shared meals at Femminamorta. To join the full retreat, please refer to the PASS options.
Biographies
Barbara Crescimanno is an independent researcher and teacher of dance and percussive techniques at the Scuola di Musica e Danze Tradizionali Arci Tavola Tonda; she conducts a research on the relationship between music, dance and sacred feminine, coordinating various training projects:
• CHOROS. Dances, Voices and Rhythms of Southern Italy. Two-year training course;
• Nymphs, Menads, Baccanti. Female voices and rhythms in the Mediterranean (2020-2023);
• The Artisan Dance Company of the Cultural Artisans Project, funded by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2016/18).
Collaborates with the Chair of Ethnomusicology of the University of Palermo for various projects, including the shows ‘Storie di tarantismo in Sicilia’, and ‘L’osso che canta’, curated by the ethnomusicologist Sergio Bonanzinga (UniPa), presented at the Festival OrtoinArte, (Palermo 2018) and the Dionysian Festival, Greek Theatre (Segesta 2019).
She is coordinator of the FRAME DRUM ATLAS project (www.mediterraneanmusicatlas.it) and contact for Sicily at https://www.preistoriainitalia.it/.
She has collaborated with the director Roberto Andò for some shots of the feature film L’abbaglio (2024).
She choreographed the opening scene of the feature film ‘Il traditore’ (Cannes Film Festival, 2019) for director Marco Bellocchio.
She collaborated on the documentary by David Riondino ‘La musica di Calatafimi’, presented at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo (2015).
She collaborated with S.A.C. (Società Arte Cultura) for the realization of ‘Sulle orme dei suoni – Gli strumenti musicali tradizionali in Sicilia oggi’ (MiBAC Cinema, Regione Sicilia, Sicilia Film Commission, Cinesicilia).
She curated the performances of theater-narration:
- Tri donni vidi ripitari. Funerary practices in Mediterranean Sicily (2022-23);
- Kore and Hades, or water and fire, love and death (2019);
- Flowers, blood, wheat. Kore and Demetra in the island (Festiwal Opowiadaczy, Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN, Lublin, 2013).
Rachele Andrioli is measured by singing, ranging between the traditional music and the role of the chansonnier, from Salento music to world music, jazz. She started collaborating for several years with “Officina Zoè”, one of the first and in some ways more radical expressions of the Salento music of Puglia. Together with the band he participated in important festivals inside and outside the national borders. His musical journey continues, spanning from Italy to India, Lebanon and the Americas. The artist participates in several record productions.
In his musical research, she has never forgotten his Latin soul, open to modern influences and aware of his Mediterranean roots.
Rachele studied jazz at the Conservatory “Tito Schipa” of Lecce and now collaborates with the most different projects, including recently “Rachele Andrioli e Rocco Nigro”, “Opa Cupa” and “Giro di Banda di Cesare Dell’Anna”; occasionally plays with “Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino”, “T’amai” (Giancarlo Paglialunga with Redi Hasa and Rocco Nigro), “Progetto Adria” with Claudio Prima, Emanuele Coluccia and Francesco Pellizzari.
Hiram Salsano is a singer, musician, independent ethnographic researcher and teacher of Folk Singing at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Nocera Terinese (CZ). Born in Agropoli (SA) in 1988, lives at the foot of the Alburni Mountains, in Cilento. Experimental vocalist, explores the voice as an expressive instrument and plays the framed drums of southern Italy (tammorra and tamburello).
Since 2005 he has been researching the repertoire of oral tradition in southern Italy, with a particular focus on Campania, exploring the areas of Monti Lattari (NA) and Monti Alburni (SA). At the same time, she developed his artistic career, performing in France, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy, collaborating with different formations of traditional music.
In 2010 she won the Marca Eurofolk prize with the trio ‘A voce Stesa, while in 2022 she was finalist of the Ethnos Generazioni competition. Since 2022 she has been leading an author’s world music project that integrates tradition with contemporary sounds.
In 2023 she releases his first album, Bucolica, preceded by the music video for the single Tarantà. The album receives prestigious recognition: it ranks among the top ten albums of the Transglobal World Music Chart, the top twenty of the World Music Charts Europe and the top three of the monthly ranking of Mundofonías. She is also awarded as Record of the Year by the editorial staff of Blogfoolk.
Finalist for the Parodi Prize 2023 with the song “Mare e Arena”, gets recognition from the international jury and wins the Loano Giovani Award for Traditional Italian Music.
In 2024 she published the ethnographic research book “Chi fa ammore va Camminanne” (Printart), consolidating his commitment to enhancing the cultural heritage of southern Italy.
