Wildness &
Precision®
“In the particular is contained the universal.”
― James Joyce
WORKSHOP
ARTICULATION, DICTION & PRECISION
Saturday, May 17, 2025
2-5pm Pacific / 5-8pm Eastern
*For singers, speakers, instrumentalists, and performers of all kinds.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Your articulators are also RESONATORS.
Learning to work with them as such creates feedback and feed-forward loop that make your entire vocal, respiratory, and movement systems function smoothly and precisely. Meaning, what you do with your mouth will greatly improve what happens in your throat, and will greatly improve what happens throughout your entire body.
In this workshop, you will learn how coordination through the entire body synergizes with specific articulation practices to produce phenomenal accuracy.
We will work with vowels, language, accents, and the most efficient use of the tongue, jaw, and mouth to say what you wish to say with clarity and beauty. We are talking acoustics, coordination of the tongue, jaw, and lips, and how to create crystal clear resonance from how you say your words. We will also look at how to cultivate smooth and articulated movement with the fingers, wrists, ankles, and other joints that are designed to spring.
I have coached many great singers, wind players and professional movers to fully discover how to use rebound, elasticity, and acoustics to articulate words, rhythms, ornaments, and coloratura. It is a process of deep play leading to easeful virtuosity. It is how you can learn to receive energy from your work.
* I will also teach you the easiest and most transformative practice I know to get your singing in any language to be easeful, accurate, and super resonant.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Part 1 Structure, Function & Concepts
Design of the Jaw, Resonators and Articulators
The Tongue and Lips in Singing (the extended resonator tube)
Exercises to Establish Optimal Breath, Jaw Movement, and Articulation
Part 2 Styles & Applications
- Diction: Precision and Flow in Singing, Speaking and Playing
- Optimal Resonance via Articulation
- Experiments & Techniques to Tune Consonants and Create the Conditions for “Self-Modifying” Vowels
- How the Specific Conveys the Universal in Language and Ornamentation
- Integration: Simple, Comprehensive Rehearsal and Performance Plans Encompassing Key Learning from the Workshop
Part 3 Coaching
- Specific Coaching for Participants to Work Precisely with Repertoire & Application
- Open Q&A
“The Articulation Workshop was welcoming and friendly, low-key in atmosphere and high-powered in terms of the coaching results Kate was able to rapidly tease out; as a person and as a teacher she is extremely respectful of exactly where the participant is, with no sense of pressure or forcing of any kind. A very safe place.”
– Karen Sadek
Master Practitioner MDH Breathing Coordination & Teacher of the Alexander Technique
ABOUT KATE
Kate Conklin is 6 feet 3 inches of pure, unadulterated resonance.
Kate is a soprano, a leading interpreter of the highly demanding vocal music of Bulgaria, and an extraordinary performance coach. Kate is a certified Integrative Alexander Technique teacher, holds two degrees in Vocal Performance, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Bulgaria, where she studied singing, pedagogy, and conducting, and performed as a member of The Ivan Spassov Academic Choir. Kate was also the vocalist for Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” where she performed approximately nine hundred shows, and subsequently brought on to teach at the California Institute of the Arts where she served as vocal faculty, as well as founding and directing the Bulgarian Vocal Ensembles.
Kate’s unique methodology, Wildness & Precision®, is the process that has emerged from decades of coaching the best performers in the world, and deep study in the fields of optimal performance, optimal acoustics, flow state, stress physiology, neurobiology, systems theory, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, anthropology, philosophy, and creativity.
Kate coaches acrobats, artists, opera singers, athletes, entrepreneurs, directors, and performers of all kinds to create the conditions for consistent optimal performance, skilled mastery, and unprecedented performance techniques so they can get the support, recognition, and fulfillment they desire and deserve.
Kate sings in seventeen + languages and is known for her playful gravitas.