The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement 

with Peter Sciscioli

April 11-25

WED 6:30-8:30pm

MR@Abrons Arts Center G05

$65 for three-week series

$30 drop-in class rate

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breath can move through the body, as a starting point for making any sound. From there, various exercises for accessing resonance, volume, range and articulation will be shared.

We will explore how the extension of movement into sound and vibration can alter our perception and activate space differently than movement alone. Further, we will experience a dialogue between spoken language and movement, and between dancing and singing. Finally, we will discover how this interplay can expand the variety of choices that are available, allowing for a fuller means of expression through the body. This practice is informed by years of study in music, movement and energy work, in particular. Exercises and approaches gleaned from working with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (extended vocal techniques), Jane Comfort (text and movement) and Daria Faïn (qi-gong and locating sound within the body), as well as from my background in theater and opera will be incorporated. The workshop is open to all levels, drop-ins are welcome and each session will have a slightly different focus that is progressive over the course of our time together.

Registration for the entire series of The Sounding Body, with Pyeng Threadgill (February 28 – March 14), Tatyana Tenenbaum (March 21 - April 4), and Peter Sciscioli (April 11-25), is available for $180! 

Peter Sciscioli has worked in dance, music, theater and film for over 20 years, and is an interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been leading classes, workshops, and his approach to Voice as Movement since 2009, in locations ranging from Mexico to Macedonia, and at numerous universities. Most recently Peter has taught at CAVE as a LEIMAY LUDUS Guest Teacher, at Pratt and Queens College, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and at the Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance. In New York, he has offered vocal coaching for several choreographer’s works, including Jane Comfort, Juliana F. May, Milka Djordjevich, Larissa Velez-Jackson and Edisa Weeks. 

Since 1997 Peter has been creating work with a wide variety of collaborators in traditional and nontraditional venues throughout the world. As a performer, he has worked extensively with Meredith Monk, Jane Comfort and Daria Faïn, and appeared in work by Jonathan Bepler/Matthew Barney, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Susan Marshall and Philip Glass/Mary Zimmerman, among others. 

In 2012, Peter founded the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium, a network of artists and producers working across disciplines and cultures. He was recently honored to attend the Nomad Dance Advocates and MR’s GPS meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.