Date:
28th September 10:00-18:00 (with one hour break)
Location:
EDEN, Yogaroom
Breite Straße 43
13187 Berlin
Applications by email: dittevoicetale@gmail.com
Deadline for reduced price application: 21st September.
After the given date, all applications at regular price.
Worshop schedule:
28th September 2025 10:00-13:30, 14:30-18:00
Prices: sliding scale
Students or artists in need of social support (unemployed, refugee status, single parents or other): €60- until 21st September!!!!
Regular price: €90
Sponsor price: €120 (this price allows others, who need support in paying the fee, to participate at a lower fee)
If you feel that the lowest price is unattainable for you at this moment in your life, please contact me directly at dittevoicetale@gmail.com.
Please remember that the aim of the sliding scale is to support and allow for those who cannot afford to pay for such work to take part anyway. Therefore, if you can afford to pay the larger sum, please do so, as by doing so you will be enabling the participation of others who might find it financially challenging. I will gladly make a mentioning of your support, if you would appreciate that.
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Every voice has a tale to tell. In fact, the voice has a million tales to tell, depending on the song it’s singing, the experiences it goes through, the person who is listening, the sounds surrounding it, the state I, who am singing, am in.
As an actress I enter into a dialogue with my voice every time I sing a song. I ask: How are we going to sing this today? What about this sound? How does it feel? What does it say? What tale does it tell? The exploration takes me further and brings more questions. This is the work of the performer that wishes to make the song or a text a tool for a very deep exchange of experience between the singer and the listener. The voice is naked, and allows us to share on a level that we are not used to and often feel unsure of. The exploration of its borders and its connections through a deep physical experience, with images, with associations, makes our tools richer for communication and allows for a space of discovery.
The work session focuses on an exploration into our own voices and our voices reflected and fused in the voices of others; on the strength of standing confident with the sound of our own voice, exploring its richness and building the foundation to support it, through breath, physical support, imagination. Discovering its strength when appearing singly, and power when it adds to the richness of a common sound created by other voices.
More and more, the performing arts are blending in with each other, requiring dancers to be actors as well as singers, or actors and singers to be movers.
This work session is directed specifically to performers and students of performance arts, including dance, theatre and music and those specifically interested in the process of performing through song and text. It builds on the support of the ensemble, helping us to work as a team as we grow as individuals. A work much needed in today's world based on individuality and, very often, competitiveness. Polyphonic singing tradition brings people together in the joy of creating beautiful sounding music together and teaches us endless lessons on how to exist and work together.
This work takes you on a very different journey of awareness and empowerment through the voice and leaks into areas of how we use our voices to coexist as human beings and particularly as performers when we look to communicate something that is important to us, and perhaps the rest of the world, vocally.
Ditte Berkeley — Artist, Voice Researcher, Educator
Ditte Berkeley is a dynamic theatre practitioner, vocal artist, and educator with roots in Denmark and the UK—raised in Spain and trained at London’s Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama . As an independent artist, her central fascination lies in the transformative power of song within performance.
Currently engaged as a performer in Source Material’s successful performance Life in this House is Over- with its recent US premiere in New York- where she performs alongside outstanding performers from the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Teatr ZAR backgrounds. She is also engaged as a vocal and language coach in the film industry and well as a screen actress in various productions.
A cornerstone of her career has been her collaboration with Teatr ZAR. She was a founder member of the company and a performer and a co-creator in the company’s first five performances. Further demonstrating her visionary spirit, she initiated VoicEncounters, a recurring festival on vocal traditions hosted by the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław. She also co-organized the international festival “Giving Voice” in 2009, in collaboration with CPR Wales .
In her pedagogical work, Ditte has made a distinct mark by co-leading transformative workshops such as “Into the Sound” (with Teatr ZAR) and “Awakening the Listening Body” (with Matej Matejka). These workshops cultivate deep bodily and vocal awareness for performers . Today, she continues to pioneer her innate explorations through her own voice-focused workshops, notably “Voice Tale (Speaking Song)”, offered both across Poland and internationally and has been a guest teacher at renowned institutions, such as Central school of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, RADA, Italia Conti, CALARTS, Institut del Teatre, to mention a few.
On top of her theatrical and educational pursuits, Ditte has contributed to Polish cinema through various film performances and remains engaged in new film projects.