The Embodied Voice - Voz, Movimento, Improvisação

Welcome to the Playground!

The Embodied Voice Lisbon offers a welcoming creative space for voice and movement exploration, all grounded in a gentle and playful relationship to the body. The first half of the session may feel a bit like a yoga class, mixed with a Feldenkrais session, mixed with conscious dance, all integrated with sounding and singing, leading to a body and voice that feels soft, open and connected. In the second half we play a myriad of games and forms for unlocking our creative voice and honing our musical skills, including creating melodies, understanding musical forms, improving rhythmic vocabulary and precision, exploring invented language or words, and more. In the process, we also learn to develop inter-personal connections, engage in deep listening, and explore our habits and roles within a collaborative context. Enjoy these unique sessions that will leave you feeling energised, connected, and inspired!

You may attend one a drop-in or class card basis. Please let me know which classes you intend to join in the order check out form. Please note, class cards must be used for this series and will not roll over to following series.

The Elements:

embodied vocal training

- somatic exercises to cultivate voice/body integration & function

musicality through movement

- improve your knowledge of musical concepts like melody, harmony, & rhythm through embodied learning

collaborative vocal improv

- enjoy a myriad of tools & games for creating music in the moment together



REGULAR WORKSHOPS:

Wednesdays 19h-21h (2hrs)
January 8, 15, 22, 29,

Drop in 15EUR
2 class card 12% off 26EUR
4 class card 15% off 51EUR


Location:

A Piscina @Espaço da penha
Tv. do Calado 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa,

Register: https://app.tickettailor.com/events/katesmith/1426001
Inquiries: kate.smith.music@gmail.com
www.Theembodiedvoice.net
@TheEmbodiedVoice



Kate Smith is a vocal acrobat, composer, and facilitator known for her seamless blend of musical precision, free improvisation and physical exploration. As the creator of The Embodied Voice©, a research, performance and teaching practice, Kate’s many-faceted creative endeavours address themes of presence, the body-mind relationship, and human rewilding, through the expressive shaping of voice, movement and improvisation.

A dedicated improviser, Kate performs in numerous contexts and collaborations (TATE Modern, A Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Lisboa Incommun), and has released four albums of vocal improv since 2020, including Remembering, Anthropos, Source and Oöm. Kate is one of the founding members of the UK Vocal Improv Collective, which organize large scale gatherings dedicated to vocal improv in the UK, now entering its fourth year. She has led voice, movement, and improvisation workshops for Harvard University, Whitechapel Gallery, Le Cercle Enchante, and more.

The Embodied Voice is a practice for living more joyfully in mind and body by bringing together voice, movement, mindful awareness, and improvisation. Balancing science and technique with play and creativity, The Embodied Voice helps us tap into a voice and body that is free, expressive, vital, and present.The Embodied Voice emerged from Kate's voracious desire to draw connections between practices, searching for fundamental ways of being that transcend genre and dogma. Drawing on a deep commitment to embodied research, Kate likes to question received wisdoms through experimentation and playful curiosity.

As a result, the practice draws on many influences including yoga, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method®, Body-Mind Centering®, mindfulness, contact improv, dance, and theatre. Kate has studied with a variety of leading artists in the voice and movement fields, including Meredith Monk, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen (BMC), Seke Chimutengwende, Margaret Pikes (Roy Hart Theatre), Grzegorz Braal (Song of the Goat), and more. She studied Feldenkrais-based vocal pedagogy with Robert Sussuma, and is a 200hr Yoga-Alliance certified teacher of Authentic Flow Yoga. She is grateful for the inspiration of her colleagues and mentors, including Jenni Roditi (TIC), Guillermo Rozenthuler, David Eskenazy and more.

Her workshops can therefore run the gamut from sessions of soulful sounding, to technical lessons on voice-body anatomy, to creative games for embodied musicality, to wild and playful movement explorations. What holds all the diversity of approach together is Kate's consistent commitment to holding safe and welcoming spaces that encourage us to reconnect to our essential being.

www.KateSmithMusic.com

www.TheEmbodiedVoice.net