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Event
Voicing Your Body with Rafael Lopez-Barrantes
Saturday and Sunday, April 12th and 13th, 2-5pm
Tuition fee: $100
Early Bird Tuition Fee (until March 21): $75
Where: Schkapf
6567 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323.871.1912
Your voice and your body are uniquely yours. They express "you" as you are. Yet in daily life the body and voice often remain a well of expressiveness rarely tapped. Contacting that well, engaging your body and voice together, opens the potential for whole other "yous" to be expressed. Professionally, this extends the range of styles and roles you are capable of executing. Personally, contact with new versions of your individual voice and body allows for transformation of your daily self.
Based on the extended vocal range techniques of the Roy Hart Theatre of France, this class is designed to:
- Strengthen, free and develop the vocal range of the performer
- Establish the voice's connection with its source, the body
- Personify the voice through gesture and movement
- Address the interdisciplinary vocal demands currently placed on the performer
The class begins with the voice of each individual just "as it is"; therefore, no previous vocal training is necessary. Exploring individually and as a group, participants will contact the sources of energy hidden deep within the body that fuel and (re)ignite the voice. Through breathing and body conditioning exercises we will approach sound, text and/or song in order to discover one's own expressiveness. This exploration will be aided by movement and gesture work that evokes the world of physical and dance-theatre.
Rafael Lopez-Barrantes bio:
Performer, voice teacher and co-founder of Archipelago Theatre France as well as Archipelago Theatre USA, has been acting, directing and teaching with the Roy Hart Theatre in France since 1974. His research in traditional Japanese performing arts and flamenco singing has shaped extensively his approach to voice, body and performance training. Currently he is the Associate Director for Performance at the Theatre School of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Former Voice Chair at the National School of Puppetry Arts in France (1984-1992), Rafael's teaching includes Japan, Mexico and Europe, notably the Riksteater of Norway and the French National Conservatories of Dramatic Art. He was also faculty for fifteen years at the Theatre Studies Department of Duke University where he directed a number of performances (including Kaspar, King Ubu, Blood Wedding, The Tempest, Don Juan, House of Desires) and has been faculty at the American Dance Festival (1992-2013). In 2009 he did residencies at the National University in Costa Rica and at the North East Normal University in Chanchung, China. In the summers of 2010 and 2011 he was resident artist at Xin-Xian University, China.
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LocationSchkapf (View)
6567 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
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