A series of voice, movement and rhythm workshops to inspire your creativity and connect you to its most primal source. This work welcomes, celebrates and can be adjusted to all bodies.
Facilitated by a group of masterful artists, this series will help you tap into the heart of your creativity, by using the gifts you were given at birth – your voice and your body. You do not need to be a dancer or vocalist to participate.
All workshops are recorded and will be available through the end of Dec 2022.
All workshops are available through our Community Tier on Patreon (or Archive Tier for recordings only) as well as ticketed events via Eventbrite.
Workshop Breakdown
1-3pm EST on Mondays
BONUS CLASS if you sign up before August 15th: The Anatomy of a Voice Practice – Katie Bull
September 19th: Theater Gym – Tal Jakubowiczova
September 26th: Voice & Movement – Dancer-Musician Susanna Hood
October 10th: Movement Practice – Choreographer Aria Evans
October 17th: Embody Rhythmic Approaches – Musician Sofía Rei
October 24th: Halloween Special – Dancer-Musician Akim Funk Buddha
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EARLY BIRD BONUS CLASS: The underlying principal of Katie Bull’s Anatomy of a Vocal Practice is that we want to gain higher levels of functionally integrated performance and to undo what Feldenkrais once called “parasitic” habits; in this way we actualize our fully expressive range and healthy ease in vibrant singing.
Through Tal Jakubowiczova‘s UK based company, Theatre Gym, she provides acting courses for adults who are interested in exploring their creativity through playing and acting. In this session, you will get to work with the other group members, using your imagination, creating and performing together. It is a safe and supportive space and no acting experience is needed. Only your willingness to play, create and be silly together.
Susanna Hood‘s approach is influenced by a mix of methods (including Open Source Forms, Emotionally Integrated Voice, Continuum Movement and Action Theatre.) We will warm and nurture support through our full physical self– flesh, bones and guts; voice; emotion and imagination – attuning to ourselves by diving into sensation, bringing awareness to and letting go of unnecessary tensions so as to access greater freedom and play.
In Aria’s workshop, Movement practices, we will use imaginative ways to generate movement that connects us to our identity and environment.
Musician Sofia Rei will introduce ways in which we can embody rhythmic approaches as musicians. Check out her video below to see how she does it!
Akim Funk Buddha is a multi-cultural dancer, vocalist, fashion designer and hip-hop artist. He will take us on a Halloween inspired sounding and movment adventure to close this exploratory, playful series.
Bios:
KATIE BULL is a jazz vocalist/composer/bandleader and vocal production coach. Over the decades, she has evolved an interdisciplinary approach to “braiding” ones’ own individualized vocal warm up.
TAL JAKUBOWICZOVA is a theatre performer, director and teacher. She teaches adults (professional performers as well as complete beginners) and loves seeing ideas come to life and people find their strengths and talents and build on them.
SUSANNA HOOD is a Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal-based dance artist, musician and educator. She has devoted her career to synthesizing voice and movement within her dynamic practice.
ARIA EVANS (they/she/he) is an award winning, queer Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working in dance theatre; creation, performance and film.Advocating for inclusion and the representation of diversity, Aria uses their artistic practice to question the ways we can coexist together.
SOFIA REI – Folklore and futurism, graceful elegance and raw passion, virtuosic precision and spontaneous exploration – all merge together in the music of Grammy nominated vocalist, songwriter and producer Sofia Rei. She is currently a professor at NYU’s CliveDavis Institute of Recorded Music.
Urban-legendary Hip Hop performer, dancer, and teacher AKIM FUNK BUDDHA is a multi-faceted performance artist with talents ranging from high-energy Classic Hip Hop rhymes, beat-boxing and Mongolian throat-singing, to body-balancing, martial arts, tap dance, and circus arts. Akim is an advocate for alternative methods in learning.