SUMMER 2025
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
VOICE & TEXT WORKSHOP
Teacher: Brett Radke
June 28 & 29
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm
Fee: $240
In Person: Location: TBA (in NYC)
Find more vocal freedom and clarity, and link that into a very practical approach to text!
Each day will start a vocal warm-up: releasing physical tensions, freeing breath, developing more vocal resonance, and undoing tensions in the jaw and tongue. You’ll then wake up the vocal resonating ladder to find more freedom, expressiveness, and strength.
We then translate these exercises into the dynamics of speaking and articulation with a series of group exercises and individual coaching, for you to find an embodied and clear expression with your text. You’ll explore the process for bringing expressiveness into the storytelling with an authentic connection to the imagery and circumstances of your text, while seeing how it plays through to the actions of the character moment by moment.
This workshop is terrific preparation for cold readings, developing audition material, and getting ready to rehearse a play! Please have two monologues ready explore.
VOICE LEVEL 1 Workshop
Teacher: Sara Buffamanti
August 23 & 24
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $280
In Person: Location TBA (in NYC)
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A lively introduction to the Linklater Voice Work or a terrific refresher for those who have already had Linklater classes. This workshop will help you free your breath, develop resonance, loosen jaw and tongue tensions and wake up your vocal range.
Relaxation and release is essential to opening, freeing and ultimately strengthening your voice. In this initial workshop, 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.