Free Your Voice: Foundational voice training for humans, actors, teachers....

“To free the voice is to free the person” - Kristin Linklater

Saturday 22 of March

Perseverance Street Shed Seven 7/24 Barter Street, Gympie

10am - 4pm (Room open from 9:30am)

The workshops will introduce participants to Linklater vocal technique for a free and supported voice.

Topics include:

Postural alignment
Connecting to and developing breath support
Connecting to, trusting, and committing to one’s own creative impulses
Freeing the ‘channel’ (jaw, tongue and soft palate) for efficient vocal technique
Developing vocal resonance
Vocal health.

Dr Jo Loth

Jo has over 25 years’ experience teaching voice, movement and acting at a tertiary level, and is in the final stages of training to be a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has taught for the Queensland Conservatorium, WAAPA, QUT, The National Drama School (Melbourne), The University of the Sunshine Coast, The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts and Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. Jo has worked in the independent performance sector for over 30 years and is a recipient of The Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowship. Career highlights include performances for Tadashi Suzuki’s Theatre Festivals in Japan, The Brisbane Festival, The Brisbane Cabaret Festival and The Brisbane Powerhouse with companies including The Danger Ensemble, Oz Frank and The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. From 1993 - 2000, Jo was an actor with Oz Frank Theatre performing with the company in Japan and throughout Australia, with roles including Lady Macbeth (Macbeth: Crown of Blood), Jocasta (Oedipus Rex), Gertrude (Hamlet), and Eurydice (The Romance of Orpheus). Jo has a PhD in cabaret performance and a Masters on applications of the Suzuki actor training method.