Bone Song: A Polyphonic Singing Workshop

Overview

Old songs live in our bones. They know sorrow, joy, fear and anger. They know loss, and they know love. This workshop explores song in its most primal state: raw emotion sung from our bones and expressed through each voice’s unique cadence, tone and shape.

We’ll work with our skeleton and vocal anatomy, open and explore places of resonance in the body, and find new pathways of connection between emotion, voice, breath and bone. We’ll sing old songs together, and together, we’ll make new ones.

This workshop will involve light to moderate physical activity, so please come in comfortable clothes you can move in, and bring a notebook and pencil. We tend to work barefoot, but participants can wear soft-soled shoes if necessary.

About the Artist

Anna is joint artistic director of Company of Wolves, a leading laboratory theatre company based in Scotland whose work is rooted in experimentation, inclusion, collaboration and play.

Originally from the Midwest, Anna has lived internationally for over 25 years, working with world-renowned artists (Song of the Goat, Gardzienice, Katie Duck, Jonathan Hart Makwaia, Kristin Linklater) and studying traditional song, lamentation and polyphony with singers from Siberia, Georgia, Ukraine and Poland.

Her artistic and teaching practice focuses on building awareness within the performer’s body (somatics, imagery, anatomy and neurology) and exposes the relationship between voice, breath, movement and body.