SPRING 2024
WORKSHOPS
“A word or a phrase or a sentence is like a pebble that, when thrown into the pool of the body-mind, sets up ripples that disturb the waters. The waters? Physical, sensory, sensual, and emotional energies.” Kristin Linklater – Freeing the Natural Voice
EMBODIED VOICE & Text
Teacher: Benjamin Moore
April 6 & 7
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $250
In Person:
Pearl Studios
519 8th Avenue, NYC
This workshop is for those who are already familiar with the Linklater Voice progression and is designed to channel the experience of language out of the head and into a whole-body experience. The day begins with a vocal/physical warm-up where you will connect to breath and resonance, soften tension in the throat, tongue, and jaw, and wake up the vocal range of your speaking voice, to explore more vocal variety and strength. These exercises will support an exploration of the elements of language – specifically vowels and consonants in order to exercise a tactile, imaginative, and emotionally responsive connection to imagery, as well as to find the intelligence in how the thoughts are laid out, and given purpose. Please have some text ready to perform.
VOICE LEVEL 1 WORKSHOP
This workshop has been cancelled.
Voice & Feldenkrais Workshop
Teacher: Tamala Bakkensen
May 18 & 19
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm (ET)
Fee: $220
In Person - Location: TBA
“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, Body, Shakespeare
An intensive 5-day workshop
Teachers: Merry Conway, Andrea Haring, Benjamin Moore, Daniela Varon
June 3 - June 7
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 6 pm (EDT) each day
Fee: $700
In Person - Location TBA
“Shakespeare’s text integrates words, emotions, objectives, intentions and actions, and in doing so it accurately reflects the Elizabethan society to whom it spoke… Language lived in the body. Thought was experienced in the body. Emotions inhabited the organs of the body…Shakespeare’s “truth” therefore, is different from our daily experience of “truth”. The scale is larger than our domestic reality. But he does not express his truth in a different language, he expresses it in a different experience of language.” Kristin Linklater, Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice
To apply for this workshop, please send your picture and resume to: mail@thelinklatercenter.com
Please do not register until we notify you of your acceptance.
REGISTER AFTER ACCEPTANCE
The goal of this workshop is to expand the actor’s vocal, physical, emotional and imaginative responsiveness to language through the Linklater voice work, and to apply it to the delights and demands of Shakespeare’s text. After warming up the voice and body’s ability to release tension with daily voice and movement classes that will open resonance, wake up range for a variety of expression and find clarity in articulation for complex thoughts, you will awaken your responsiveness to the richness of his imagery, and examine the structure of Shakespeare’s verse and explore the elements of language that bring his text to life - such as antithesis, alliteration, onomatopoeia, laddering and the use of rhetoric. Through improvisational group work and one-on-one monologue work the workshop aims to increase the actor’s ability to fully and pleasurably embody the demands and joys of Shakespeare’s text. Our teachers offer an integrated approach to the work where each class complements and builds upon the others, and each participant receives careful and considered attention and support. Classes include voice, speech, movement, acting/text, elements of language and Sound & Movement.