Wildness &
Precision®
LET’S GET SLIPPERY
WORKSHOP
SPEED& AGILITY: ORNAMENTS, TRILLS & COLORATURA
Saturday, March 15, 2025
2-5pm Pacific / 5-8pm Eastern
*For singers, instrumentalists, and performers of all disciplines
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This workshop is designed to make you go really fast, really well.
By delving into rebound, subdivision, and the design of the human instrument, we can go from halting and sluggish to slippery and precise VERY quickly.
My work in classical coloratura, North Indian, jazz, Bulgarian, highly ornamented Balkan music, and other disciplines like dance, boxing, acrobatics, and neurobiology revealed how speed and precision are emergent qualities of human performance when the proper conditions are created.
In this workshop, I will teach you the most profound and adaptable principles and practices from the fields of art, athletics, and bio-plasticity to discover what you can really do when you are primed for optimal mobility.
Whether you are doing footwork, ostinato, double tonguing, or coloratura- you will experience greater and more reliable speed and precision than ever before.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Part 1 Structure, Function & Concepts
- Optimal Coordination & Mobility: Vocal and Respiratory Mechanisms in the Context of the Entire Body
- Optimal Acoustics: Resonance, tuning, and emanation
- Exercises to Establish Coordination and Optimal Resonance
Part 2 Styles & Applications
- Agility & Ornamentation in Art, Movement and Music- Why It Matters
- Experiments & Techniques to Amplify Mobility, Agility, Tuning, Resonance, and Speed
- Two Practices to Expand Speed, Precision, and Perception
- 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 and Application
- Open Q&A
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.