The Embodied Voice, Lisbon

VOICE, MOVEMENT, IMPROVISATION

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 improve 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)
October 30
Nov 6, 13, 20, 27

Drop in 15EUR
2 class card 12% off 26EUR 
5 class card 20% off 60EUR

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 artist, composer and workshop leader who is passionate about creating music and facilitating collective music-making for voices and bodies in motion. With a MMus in Leadership from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she is the creator of The Embodied Voice, a research, performance, and teaching practice bringing together voice, movement, and improvisation. She works with people to understand and experience their voice in connection to their body, using movement, awareness, and improvisation. Singing, sounding, or speaking in an embodied way entails addressing the whole system from a phenomenological perspective - exploring our felt experience of body/voice functions, breath, nervous system, co-regulation, creative and imaginative expression, and more.

Kate has led creative voice and music workshops for The Barbican, Harvard University, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and more, and has provided voice and movement consultation for dance and theatre companies such as Greenwich Dance and Cyphers Theatre Company. 

Kate’s practice draws on many influences including yoga, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method®, Body-Mind Centering®, mindfulness, contact improv, dance, and theatre. She has studied with Meredith Monk, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen (BMC), Seke Chimutengwende, Robert Sussuma (Vocal Learning Systems), Margaret Pikes (Roy Hart Theatre), Grzegorz Braal (Song of the Goat), Guillermo Horta (VABAS), and more. She is a 200hr Yoga-Alliance certified teacher of Authentic Flow Yoga. She earned her Guildhall Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring, Accredited by the European Mentoring & Coaching Council in 2019.

As a dedicated improviser, Kate has performed in numerous contexts and collaborations (TATE Modern, A Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Lisboa Incommun), as well as released four albums of vocal improv since 2020, including Remembering, Anthropos, Source and Oöm. Kate is one of the team organizing the UK Vocal Improv Festival Retreat, the only large-scale, cross-UK event of its kind dedicated to vocal improv, now entering its fourth year.

www.KateSmithMusic.com