Slam / Improvisation

> Introduction

> Schedule

> Coaching

> Places availaible for

> Teaching

> Tariff terms

Introduction

In 2004 Royaumont developed a creation program devoted to slam, and the way it relates to music and language. The first training workshop Slam / improvisation will be directed in 2008 by Dgiz and Médéric Collignon. Verbal improvisation is a special slam form, since normally the text is fixed before performance. Dgiz is one of the great slam performers / improvisers in the French language, while Médéric Collignon one of the most prolific improvisers of his generation, with a very personal approach to the relationship between the verbal and the musical. The workshop can therefore explore with them the poetic and rhythmical worlds of slam in an innovative way, and create a space where the sound-word and music model each other. The workshop will include an experiment Du griot au slameur, an encounter between folk tales and oral tradition music from Mali and Morocco, conducted simultaneously in 2008 by Dgiz and Médéric Collignon in Royaumont, Bamako and Agadir.

Schedule

Audition

Selection based on dossier before June 15, 2008

Session

From Monday, August 4 to Sunday, August 10, 2008

i.e. 7 days of training

Public presentation

Fenêtre sur cour[s] on Saturday, August 9, 2008

Coaching

Dgiz, poet, slammer

Médéric Collignon, bugle, cornet, electronics

Places availaible for

8 slammers or improviser musicians

Teaching

Theoretical teaching

Poetic study of the relationship between text and music.

Practical teaching

Practice of verbal improvisation, and text writing, study of metrics and meter particular to slam (and to rap) and new meters proposed by Médéric Collignon, practice of musical improvisation as it relates to slam.

Method

Collective and small group workshops (2 – 4 persons) / individual practice time.

Tariff terms

Financial participation consists of

	a mandatory entry fee
	mandatory membership in the Amis de Royaumont association
	training expenses and accommodation expenses

This training course is refundable under the AFDAS program.

Funding for training fees

for salaried workers (full or part-time): via employers’ ongoing training programs.

	for job seekers: please enquire at your local government employmentagency and related organisms.
	for intermittent entertainment workers: if funded by the AFDAS, the conditions are as follows: 2 years of work, 48 entertainment fees (days) in France, with Congés Spectacles and salary sheets as proof.
	for Rmistes: via the general councils. Please enquire at the corresponding departments.

If you are a funding beneficiary, you will need to pay a total amount of 230 €.

Financial assistance

The Amis de Royaumont association awards a bursary to artists less than 26 years of age who are not yet engaged in regular professional activity. These funds are awarded by a committee, upon presentation of a dossier (résumé, motivation letter).

If you are a beneficiary of this funding, you will need to pay a total amount of 230 €.

For participants not eligible for any other funding, the Foundation awards study bursaries upon request and presentation of a dossier.

If you are a beneficiary of this funding, you will need to pay a total amount of 450 €.