Unplugged Dance ◘ Embodied Voice Flow

Dates: May 24 (arrival) – May 30 (departure)

This workshop is offered as part of the Unplugged Dance Program at Paleohori.

Alessio’s workshop invites participants to rediscover the voice as something deeply embodied—an inner movement connecting sensation, breath, and imagination. The practice opens sound as a pathway to self-regulation, presence, and empathy, shifting from “doing sound” to “being sound.” In collective improvisations, participants are invited to experience the joy of being part of a shared sonic organism, co-creating spontaneous music from a place of play, trust, and resonance.

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Embodied Voice Flow is a somatic vocal journey that invites you to rediscover an intimate, empowered relationship with your voice – as vibration, movement, and presence.

Each session begins with gentle bodywork and deep listening to awaken perception and connect with the sensitivity of the ‘primal voice’. Through fine tuned touch practices, we explore how sound moves through the body and how voice can become a tactile, sensory experience. All touch-based practices are grounded in mutual consent, inviting each participant to follow their own self-regulation and learning process so the group can develop a trusting connection over time.

From this foundation, we move into embodied musicality: exploring breath-voice pulsations, tuning into the micro-movements of speech, and sensing the choreography of vowels and consonants to create spontaneous melodies and percussive patterns from subtle inner rhythms.

In the final part of each session, we enter Collaborative Vocal Improvisation and Circle Songs — collective sound journeys built on repetition, layering, transformation, and listening. These shared instant compositions become a space of celebration, group storytelling and healing, giving voice to the music of the present.

Core practices include:
• Deep Listening — receiving sound through the body to cultivate awareness.
• Somatic Experience — sensing voice and body as one living instrument.
• Pulsing / Tuning — playing with spontaneous rhythms and tonal flow.
• Collaborative Vocal Improvisation — co-creating soundscapes and circle songs through attentive group interaction.

The workshop is open to all levels. No previous vocal or musical experience is required — only curiosity and the pleasure of exploring sound together.

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Alessio Castellacci is a voice embodiment teacher, contemporary dancer, and sound artist based between Berlin and Rome. Since 2007 he has worked internationally across performance, pedagogy, and sound design, developing an interdisciplinary approach to voice and movement. 

Alessio’s facilitation is rooted in somatic education, improvisation, and experiential anatomy, inviting participants to shift from cognitive understanding to felt experience—from “thinking the voice” to “sensing the voice.” Rather than teaching technique, he creates conditions for awareness and curiosity through guided movement, touch, and vocal exploration, offering propositions rather than prescriptions. His approach values slowness, repetition, silence, and improvisation as spaces where agency, connection, and real-time discovery can unfold in a gentle, playful, and safe learning environment.

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This workshop is offered as part of the Unplugged Dance Program at Paleohori.

Alongside the 7-week core group, a limited number of guest spots are available during selected weeks. Guest participants join while the process is already unfolding, entering the environment of the longer journey through an intensive 1- or 2-week experience and contributing to the collective dynamic of the group.

Guest participation is not a shorter version of the program, but an opportunity to immerse oneself in the ongoing research and shared practice of the residency. 

Priority is given to participants with extensive experience (colleagues, professionals, facilitators, etc.) and/or familiarity with the Paleohori environment.

Guest Participation Sliding Scale Fee

€590–€750 

If you are interested in joining please send a short email introducing yourself to:

unpluggeddance@gmail.com