WINTER 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

SHAKESPEARE WEEKEND WORKSHOP

Teacher: Daniela Varon
January 25 & 26
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $280
In Person:
Location TBA

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A workshop for actors and other theater artists interested in forging a passionate, imaginative, embodied relationship with Shakespeare and his characters. Through each actor's choice of monologue, we will engage in a variety of approaches to Shakespeare's text,  looking at structure of the verse, elements of language, and the use of rhetoric, while considering personalization, characterization, and the actor-audience relationship. Whether you wish to begin or continue exploring a particular character or develop a monologue for auditions, this is an opportunity to expand your physical, emotional, and intellectual responsiveness to the demands and joys of playing Shakespeare. 

Please choose and learn by heart a monologue which piques your curiosity and sparks great interest to speak these particular words. \

VOICE LEVEL 1 Workshop

Teacher: Benjamin Moore
February 22 & 23
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $280
In Person:
Location TBA

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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.