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SINGING AS LIFE PRACTICE | NTL Spring Series | 11th-12th May 2024

A masterclass exploring vocal archetypes and song as dramatic text with Emma Bonnici (Song of the Goat, Edens Cave).

When: 11th-12th May 2024

Times: 10am-4pm (11th May)

11am-5pm (12th May)

Where: Manchester/Salford TBC

Who For: This masterclass is open to actors and non-actors, dancers and non-dancers, singers and non-singers and anyone who wishes to add to their expressive toolkit. All bodies and experience levels are welcome. It is for those who feel they can't sing or feel they lost their voice somewhere on the journey, it is for professionals who can sing but are frustrated by the focus on technique over substance. The only requirement is to have a go and say “yes”.

PRICE: £95.99 (Full price)

2 Bursary places are available for those from disadvantaged backgrounds (working, benefit, criminal-class). Please email info@animikiitheatre.com with a short 100 word statement telling us about how this masterclass will help you and your practice at this time. Deadline for applying is 3rd May at 5pm

Structured Payments Available: If you would benefit from spreading your payment over a longer period of time please GET IN TOUCH at info@animikiitheatre.com

This workshop is a FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. Book your place now!

WHAT IS “SINGING AS LIFE PRACTICE”?

The masterclass weekend workshop will take you into the following areas of practice:

TECHNIQUE: Through body work of release, activation, neuro-physiology, we will explore how to release the voice, as well as support and expand it expressive range.

PROCESS: We will work with “vocal resonators” explore how your voice is linked to your body, which in turn holds your biography. Through this individuals begin to articulate and access a variety of vocal archetypes and emotional range.

FORM: As well as working imaginatively with a story and with ourselves, using polyphonic songs where body, voice and imagination meet so that participants learn to sing not just notes but stories.

About Emma:

Emma Bonnici is a dynamic actor, singer, and teacher. Her work is influenced greatly by her work with two award-winning theatre companies - Song of the Goat Theatre and Teatr Zar. This is coupled with extensive vocal work -Met Opera House, Jonathan Hart Makwaia, as well as ethno-musical expeditions. In 2015 Emma was invited to give a TedX on her work 'The Power of the Voice'

“In the individual class, she’s prepared but in the moment she’s intuitive and adapts. I discover sounds I could never imagine I could do, it’s a mystery, I listen to my own voice and it surprises me, my own production of sounds, it’s not the highest or lowest sounds, but the colour”

• Celia, Clown/Teacher

“I have been to traditional singing teachers. – it's often way too mechanical and does not take into place the emotional side.” 

• Tim David, Composer/Performer

“It’s like you are learning the song of your soul. We are learning a song, but the song is a channel. It is not the song for the songs sake, though it is amazing. It is aboutly meeting your own song and your own voice and how does your own voice inhabit you and sound.”

• Yasmeen, Performer

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