Jan 11, 2006   

Los Angeles - USA
Taught by Heather Lyle & Aole T. Miller
Saturday, January 21st - 6pm - 10pm - $100

This workshop is open to Actors, Singers, Sounders, and anyone interested in expanding his or her vocal expression. Each person’s sound is individual, unique and worth exploring. Lyle and Miller will take you on a vocal journey through Fitzmaurice voice work, Mask work and singing to discover parts of your voice that lay dormant or unrealized within you.
Fitzmaurice voice work is a kinesthetic way into the voice. It uses modified yoga postures, tremoring, shiatzu and reiki to stimulate the autonomic nervous system to unlock the breath from different parts of the body where the breath has been previously blocked. This work is known as the destructuring process. Since the voice can only go where the breath is, the voice is unlocked as well. The new-found freedom of the voice can then be further explored through the magical world of mask work. The restructuring elements of the Fitzmaurice voice work comes directly from the belle canto singing method and will be explored in the sounding and singing.



Aole T. Miller has brought his specially designed masks from famous Balinese mask maker Ida Bagus Anom. Each mask is a unique carved wood masterpiece representing different personae. Through mask work the individual can explore their voice without inhibitions, fears or constraints brought on by social biases.

Mask work opens and reveals through improvisation the qualities, elements, and possibilities within your creative imagination that transfer to your voice.



Heather Lyle is a singing and speech teacher who has sung every type of music from Egyptian to opera and jazz. Lyle uses primal sounding, circle singing and multicultural songs to explore the voice as a vocal instrument of many colors. Lyle has designed a system of vocal improvisation that allows the individual to explore vocal sounding in a way that breaks down pre-conceived ideas of what singing is.



HEATHER LYLE, is considered one of the leading voice teachers in Southern California. She is a dedicated educator who received her Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in voice, from California State University, Northridge. Lyle presently operates a private voice studio and has taught singing and vocal technique for LA Mission College, the Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts, numerous acting schools and the private sector. She has taught many singers and actors in the Los Angeles area, many who have gone on to starring roles on television and in the theater. Lyle also delights in helping the beginner in finding their voice and forming a career direction. She is the founder of Vocal Yoga, a workshop utilizing yoga technique to free the voice and Vocal Archetypes, a workshop for actors to discover the character-type their voices convey. A 2001 winner of the prestigious Sally Casanova Grant, Lyle completed advanced doctoral voice research and a doctoral internship at the renowned Indiana University School of Music. She is also a teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Lyle has served as a singing coach for record and TV productions and has contributed music to television shows including NBC’s Emmy Award winning documentary, “Mystery of the Sphinx.??? She has performed on every type of stage from the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, the smoky jazz caves of Paris to the Playboy Mansion. Lyle sings in nine languages and her latest CD, “The Spirit of New Orleans,??? will be released next month on Rhombus Records and will be heard on over 400 radio stations around the country.



AOLE T. MILLER, Creative Director of STUDIO 5 in Brooklyn, New York, has been an actor, director, writer and teacher in the United States, Denmark and Bali, Indonesia since 1992. He has been Director of the Bali Conservatory since 2002. He is the first African American Ceremonial Mask Dancer of Bali and the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to Denmark. He teaches Mask Work, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Michael Chekhov, Viewpoints, and Grotowski's concepts of the physical container and the plastiques for character development. He is a member of VASTA and is on the faculties of The School for Film and Television and Chautauqua Theatre Company and has taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Yale University, Wayne State (MFA), SUNY Purchase College, The Bill Esper Studio, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, The National Theatre Institute, Western Michigan University and the Michael Chekhov Conference 2002. He coached Michelle Williams for her Golden Globe nominated role in Ang Lee’s movie Brokeback Mountain. He directed Voices of Juarez at the 2004 International New York Fringe Festival. He holds a B.F.A. in theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

For More Information Contact:

Heather Lyle: 310 200-0506

voice@vocalyoga.com . www.vocalyoga.com


Aole T. Miller: 347 351-8430

dreamshavewings@earthlink.net

www.perbrahe.com

Posted by  Susan