Linklater Voice Workshop

with Natsuko Ohama
June 18 - 23, 2012

Through relaxation, imagination, vocal and physical exercises this intensive will help you connect with your body/voice/feelings/thoughts to express who you are through your speaking voice. Undo the inhibiting tensions that restrict the actor’s emotional and creative freedom. This 5 day progression covers Physical Awareness, Breath Awareness, Vibration Awareness, Amplification, Freeing The Channel For Sound (Jaw, Tongue, Soft Palate), Developing Resonance, and Articulation. Along side the vocal progression, the Sound and Movement work will be using the full body and imagistic delving into text work to release the expressive creativity of the speaking voice. Abstract soundings, origins of language, color work, emotional freeing, and harnessing the imagination to express text work are the continuing explorations of this voice work. Free your voice, Free yourself!

Natsuko Ohama trained under Kristin Linklater, Peter Kass, Trish Arnold, and Joseph Chaikin at the Working Theatre in New York and she is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare and Company Lenox, Mass. She has taught at numerous institutions including NYU, Cal Arts, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute, NYU, the New Actors Workshop, the Stratford Festival Ontario, and was the Director of Training at the National Arts Center of Canada. She is a certified Joy of Phonetics teacher trained by Louis Colaianni. A Drama Desk nominated actress, she has portrayed roles ranging from Juliet to Lady Macbeth from Hamlet to Prospero (Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company), from action films Speed and Pirates of the Caribbean 2, to the cult series Forever Knight and American Playhouse on PBS. She heads the voice progression for the MFA Acting Program at USC and has an extensive private teaching practice in New York. "One of the finest teachers I have ever trained." -Kristin Linklater "A gifted and caring teacher with a wonderful sensibility." -Peter Brook read more Natsuko's website: www.natsukoohama.com

TUITION: $475*

* Register by May 1st and receive a $50 discount. A 10% discount is also available to individuals registering for more than one workshop or for group registrations from the same immediate family or performing ensemble. See the registration form for details.

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Arrival: between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Monday
Departure: before 10 a.m. on Sunday

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