WINTER 2024
CLASSES
“The actor must crave insecurity, the unknown, the uncharted boundaries of imagination, because traveling along that edge leads to the promised land of creativity.”
Kristin Linklater – Freeing the Natural Voice
Drop-In Warm-Ups
Saturdays 10 am - 10:50 am
(Eastern Time Zone, USA)
January 13 - March 9
9 Sessions
Fee: $20 per session - pay as you go
Location: Online
Taught by; Andrea Haring
(Designated Linklater Teacher)
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The discipline and tactile pleasure of stretching and elasticizing one’s body, of freeing the breath, and gathering the resonance of the sound vibrations in the bony hollows of the body; of undoing specific tensions in the jaw, tongue and larynx; and waking up the sweep of one’s vocal range, and engaging the lively economy of the articulators; may seem on one level as the routine of little actions, but on a deeper level it is carving out time and space in our busy day to meet ourselves – to be present in our whole being.
Come warm up with us – to prepare for an audition or a show, to care for vocal strain, or just to keep in vocal tone. Want to spend a few minutes each week investing in yourself and strengthening your craft? This series of exercises is designed to free your voice, mind, and body to find your authentic self, and to become more expressively present in the world.
Voice Level 1
Teacher: Dianna Cortez
Designated Linklater Teacher
Tuesdays 6 pm - 7:40 pm
(Eastern Time Zone, USA)
January 16 - March 5
8 Sessions
Fee: $275
Location: Online
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Relaxation and release is essential to opening, freeing and ultimately strengthening your voice. In this initial class, you are becoming aware of how your voice and body carry habitual tensions and beginning to undo them. This is the start to freeing your breath and vibrations of sound. As your voice begins to loosen up, the next step is to develop resonance by sensing and spreading the vibrations through the bony hollows of your body. Once this connection is established we can move onto addressing deep tensions that develop in the jaw, larynx, and tongue and encourage your sigh to find a free and focused pathway beyond those tensions that filter your message. By giving your sigh of sound a clear passageway from the lower body all the way up through the mouth, you will be ready to begin to strengthen the voice and activate more expressiveness with the resonating ladder. In Voice 1 you will contact the chest, the mouth, and the teeth resonators and blend to find a warm, relaxed and focused connection between your thoughts, feelings and your voice.
voice & feldenkrais
Teacher: Tamala Bakkensen
Designated Linklater Teacher
Feldenkrais Practitioner®
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 7:40 pm
(Eastern Time Zone, USA)
January 17 - March 6
8 Sessions
Fee: $275
Location: Online
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“The muscles that articulate words must be freed from limiting conditioning and made responsive and agile enough to reflect the agility of the mind…A sensitive performer will want a voice that serves the desire to communicate.” Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice
Tamala Bakkensen synthesizes the work of two brilliant teachers, Kristin Linklater and Moshe Feldenkrais, to help you liberate your body and free your natural voice by using them in healthier, more pleasurable and intelligent ways. This workshop will be both practical and creative: an opportunity to discover where your voice comes from, to reconnect with the vital rhythm or your essential breath and to learn how to amplify your sound vibrations by activating your resonators throughout your body. Powerful Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Lessons® will help to clarify the ways in which your spine and skeleton can support you vocally. Learn to express yourself through your voice without straining or unnecessary muscular effort and use awareness to free your natural voice from inside to out. By connecting to imagery, you’ll feel more responsive to your impulses to communicate through your body and voice.
VOICE AND TEXT
This class has been cancelled.