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Linklater Center
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The Linklater Center for Voice and Language is a hub for performers, professionals, writers, teachers, and public speakers who want to enhance their vocal skills. Providing classes, workshops, and lectures, the center fosters a community that embraces and promotes the power of language and expression.

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Linklater Center

3 classes in-person in NYC have spots left, and 1 class live online is available.

Embodied Voice & Text

Linklater Center @ 519 8th Ave, New York, NY

Enhance your communication skills and elevate your performance and communication abilities with this enriching voice and text course.

(31) All levels 18 and older
$250

2 sessions

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Voice Level 1 Workshop

Linklater Center

Build your vocal presence and connect with your audience on a deeper level through transformative techniques and practical exercises in this course from the Linklater Center.

(31) Beginner 18 and older
$250

2 sessions

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Voice & Feldenkrais Workshop

Linklater Center

Experience a transformative exploration of body awareness and vocal expression in a unique workshop designed to cultivate freedom and authenticity in your movement and voice.

(31) All levels 18 and older
$220

2 sessions

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Drop-In Warm-Ups

Linklater Center @ Online Classroom

Discover the power of connecting with your authentic self and unleashing your voice at the Linklater Center's invigorating warm-up sessions. Explore the discipline of stretching, freeing your breath, and engaging your vocal range to become more expressively present in the world. Join us and invest in yourself and your craft.

(31) Intermediate 18 and older
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Freeing the Natural Voice: Level 1

Linklater Center @ 939 8th Ave, New York, NY

Relaxation and release is essential to opening, freeing and ultimately  strengthening your voice. In this initial class, you are becoming aware of how your voice and body carry habitual tensions and beginning to undo them. This is the start to freeing your breath  and vibrations of sound. As your voice begins to loosen up, the next step is to develop resonance by sensing and spreading the vibrations through the bony hollows of your body....

(31) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$290

8 sessions

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Voice & Text Workshop

Linklater Center @ 500 8th Ave, New York, NY

Unlock the power of your voice and connect with your audience like never before. Join this expressive workshop at the prestigious Linklater Center and learn vocal warm-up techniques, release physical tension, and develop vocal resonance and strength. Discover how to speak with authenticity and clarity, whether you're a performer, a public speaker, or simply want to improve your communication skills.

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$250

2 sessions

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Voice and Shakespeare Workshop

Linklater Center @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

The goal of this workshop is to expand the actor’s vocal, physical, emotional and imaginative responsiveness to language through the Linklater voice work and to apply it to the delights and demands of Shakespeare’s text.  After warming up the voice and body’s ability to release tension, open resonance, wake up range for a variety of expression and find clarity in articulation for complex thoughts, we will examine the structure of Shakespeare’s...

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$180

2 sessions

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The Audition Workshop

Linklater Center @ 244 West 54th St, New York, NY

Whether you are applying for an MFA Acting Program, doing Summer Stock auditions, or just want to brush up your repertoire of monologues, director Daniela Varon and vocal coach Andrea Haring are teaming up to give you an advantage as you head into the audition season. This workshop is designed to increase your mastery in your audition techniques, and help you bring emotional vitality and mental finesse to your audition monologues. Each day you will...

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$200

2 sessions

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Acting the Text

Linklater Center @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

Find more vocal freedom and clarity, and link that into a very practical approach to text. Each class begins with a vocal/physical warm-up. Through individual work and group exercises you will then explore how embodied imagery can connect you, and play into the elements of language. You will address how to quickly find an authentic, personal connection to your text, and see how it plays through to the actions of the character moment by moment....

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$240

8 sessions

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Linklater Meets Meisner

Linklater Center @ 244 West 54th St, New York, NY

The workshop will focus on freeing the instrument through Linklater voice work, while simultaneously freeing the actor through the Meisner technique. Linklater Meets Meisner will explore the symbiotic relationship between the work of Kristin Linklater and Sanford Meisner. Particular focus will be placed on the natural rhythm of impulse, breath, and response, and how that rhythm is the gateway to exciting spontaneity. By combining instinctive spontaneity...

(31) All levels 18 and older
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$180

2 sessions

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Clearly Speaking

Linklater Center @ 244 West 54th St, New York, NY

In these workshops, we will explore the powerful and compelling process of bringing our text from the passionate expression of feeling to the dynamic clarity of articulate speech. Clear communication balances the desire to speak – and the need to share the feelings behind that desire – with a clear thought process. Through exercises that open the breath and the body, we will bring to life the sensory connections between the energy centers in...

(31) All levels 18 and older
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Free Your Body, Free Your Voice

Linklater Center @ 300 W 43rd St, New York, NY

The workshop will consist of exploring your pelvis-spine-jaw connections, unraveling habitual patterns of holding and tension and bringing it all together with voice and text work. As you learn how to use your body more intelligently, with ease and efficiency, you will discover how to free your body and your voice. This exciting two-day workshop, taught by Feldenkrais® Practitioner Tamala Bakkensen, will focus on body awareness, breathing, and...

(31) Beginner 13 and older
No upcoming schedules
$90

2 sessions

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The Sound & Movement Workshop

Linklater Center

This workshop is a renowned progression of exercises developed by Kristin Linklater involving a series of images that are designed to explore the roots of language and restore your tactile pleasure in speaking text. By awakening the neuro-physiological pathways to receive and respond to imagery, you will find ways to embody your text, as well as access a greater range of vocal expressiveness. Please have a Shakespeare Sonnet prepared for the wo...

(31) All levels 18 and older
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Voice into Text

Linklater Center

This class is meant for those who have taken voice before and would like to strengthen their full range of resonance, expand their breath capacity, and wake up their articulation in order to find a bridge to speaking their text in a clearer, and livelier way.  Each class will take you through an embodied warm-up geared towards freeing and opening your voice that releases throat, tongue and jaw tensions, develops more breath capacity, and strengthens...

(31) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$280

8 sessions

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Advanced Voice Workshop

Linklater Center

Take your vocal training to the next level with the Advanced Voice Workshop at the prestigious Linklater Center. Dive deeper into the intricacies of the Linklater Voice Progression and explore exercises that will open your unique natural voice, develop vocal range and strength, and enhance your connection to the text. Perfect for performers, speakers, and voice teachers looking to take their skills to new heights.

(31) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$250

2 sessions

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Freeing the Natural Voice Workshop

Linklater Center @ 244 West 54th St, New York, NY

A lively introduction to the Linklater Voice Work or a terrific refresher for those who have already had Linklater classes. This workshop will help you free your breath, develop resonance, loosen jaw and tongue tensions, and wake up your full vocal range. Please have some text prepared. You will learn to: Free your connection to breath Develop resonance and range Release jaw, tongue and throat tensions and build vocal strength Ideal for...

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$180

2 sessions

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Physical Presence – Release, Energize, Perform

Linklater Center

Too often as performer, our habitual body tensions deprive us of an ability to be sensitive and responsive to impulses. Using principles derived from The Alexander Technique and Kinetic Awareness, this class is designed to help actors to identify held tension, and develop a method to free themselves from old patterns. You will learn about your anatomy, how to use Alexander Direction, and how let go of restrictive posture patterns, to form a freer...

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Freeing the Natural Voice: Level 3

Linklater Center

This course draws on techniques learned in Voice 1 and 2. In Voice 3 you will continue to open your vocal range by going through the entire resonating ladder, so that the full 3 – 4 octave range of your speaking voice becomes accessible to you. A rich and varied collection of images will be brought into play to stimulate your whole self to respond nimbly and intuitively to the imagery in your text and in response to your fellow actors. As we begin...

(31) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Natural Voice Workshop Level 2

Linklater Center

This workshop is meant for those who have taken Voice Level 1 before and would like to strengthen their full range of resonance, expand their breath capacity and responsiveness, and wake up their articulation in order to find a bridge to speaking their text in a clearer and livelier way.  Each session will take you through an embodied warm-up geared towards freeing and opening your voice. The focus here is to expand and strengthen your vocal...

(31) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Follow Your Impulses: Improvisational Games for Powerful Expression

Linklater Center

Discover the freedom and power of authentic expression in this exhilarating workshop at the Linklater Center. Overcome self-doubt and fear of judgment to confidently share your ideas and speak from a place of inspiration. Join us for a transformative experience of self-discovery and creative exploration.

(31) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$160

2 sessions

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