Track: Vocal Support

Guided 20min vocal warmup up sponsored by VASTA. Takeaways Connected Body & Breath awareness Active articulators for any kind of sound Engaged Imagination for vocal play  

While many performers have made a successful living because of their specific accent or regionalism, others have found it difficult to reach audiences outside their local market. In Voiceover, versatility read more…

The voice is a complex and powerful instrument that happens to be attached to an equally complex mind and body with a human being wrapped up inside. No matter what read more…

Voice actors are vocal athletes. We use our voices in extraordinary ways every day, so knowing how to properly take care of our instrument is as essential as a good read more…

This warm-up is geared toward all-vocal artists of any level. We will work on freeing tension around breath, the fuel of the voice, and tap into vocal support, the engine read more…

This voice and body workout can be described as a ‘gentle yoga-like’ practice that is taken from Kristin Linklater’s voice progression. Stretching and movement in this class releases the habitual read more…

In this vocal warmup, the voice-over practitioner will be guided through a series of exercises to bring awareness and energy into the body and voice. The practitioner will leave the read more…

In this break-out session open to all levels of experience, we will not only address spinal alignment and breath dropping in deeply and quickly, we will also explore ways to read more…

Exploring how ‘singing copy’ frees up your creative juices, increases joy, and gets you unstuck. When we work on our singing voice, we are also building skills for our speaking read more…

The Vocal Support team will be addressing the latest trends in vocal health, training, and accent work. A Q&A will be included for attendees. This panel includes Karen-Eileen Gordon, Susan M read more…

20 min session Enjoy a gentle vocal warm-up for you to incorporate into your lives as VO artists. In this short session suitable for beginners, we will see how spinal read more…

This “Radical Self-Care” Session will leave attendees with a powerful 3-part toolkit they can begin using immediately—the moment they leave the presentation—to strengthen their ability to reframe/bounce-back, bust stress and read more…

As actors and singers we are often told to ‘breathe into our diaphragm’ but what does that really mean? In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn the anatomy of the breathing read more…

(20 min Warm-up) Drawing on Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Knight-Thompson Speechwork, and Noguchi Taiso, Frankie leads participants through practice to release physical tension, expand the breath, develop voice support, and warm up read more…

Your voice is your instrument. You want to keep it strong and functioning for a long time. I will use me over 20 years of experience teaching voice users of read more…

This will be a fast-paced 35 min lecture and presentation. For the last 15-20 min I will work with members from the audience and answer questions. Takeaways Learn formal and informal read more…

Come learn how to take care of your voice from a trained and certified voice health expert. Katelyn Reid will give you straight-up facts on what works and can help read more…