EMBODIED VOICE: Workshop with Samita Sinha
Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 2-4pm
$15 with advanced registration / $20 at the door
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EMBODIED VOICE: In this workshop we will learn to root the voice deeply in the body through utterance, tone, and song, exploring the voice as a vibrational membrane between the inner world and surrounding space. Sinha’s contemporary vocal practice integrates utterance, tone, song, and raga (North Indian tonal systems), and principles of qi gong (Chinese energetics).  We will work with her foundational practices to heighten sensitivity to both the physical and energetic body, and to increase our capacity for resonance.

“Samita’s work is both an embrace and an argument with the past. Its effect is to create an up-to-the-minute aesthetic that reflects that transnational, planetary, technologically sophisticated culture of the 21st century. She is a citizen of the world.” – Sekou Sundiata

About Samita Sinha:
Vocalist/ composer/ performance artist Samita Sinha combines tradition with experiment to create bold new forms, combining raw, visceral energy with a deep grounding in North Indian classical vocal music, qi gong, and folk and ritual music in several languages. Sinha’s work bridges the realms of music and contemporary performance, composition and improvisation, tradition and experimentation.

Sinha has received awards and residencies from National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, Urban Arts Initiative, Fulbright Scholarship, BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), The Watermill Center (Watermill, NY), Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington DC), Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), The Coleman Center (York, AL), and Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz, NY).  Sinha has an MFA in Music/ Sound from Bard, a BA in Literature/ Cultural Criticism/ Mandarin from Yale, and has studied Hindustani music with Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar, Shiv Shankar Pandey, and Shubhangi Sakhalkar.

This workshop is presented as part of Topaz Arts Fall 2014 Choreography Residency, supported in part by the NYS DanceForce with funds from NYS Council on the Arts Dance Program.