KTS Webinar #33: An Introduction to KTS

FREE

Saturday, July 24, 2021

10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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We are excited to invite you to our 33rd webinar, a FREE introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork! Whether you’re new to this work and want to learn more, or you’re yearning to refresh your relationship with it, we got you! Join KTS Certified Teachers Adi Cabral and Amani Dorn as we outline the principles (perhaps) that guide this work and lead participants through an exploration of the vocal tract and basic speech actions. Your curiosity is invited for a KTS refresher, an introduction, or just to have a good time with making funky mouth sounds!

Registrants will receive Zoom link information 24 hours prior to the event. All registrants will also receive the recording and post-webinar survey after the meeting has ended and been processed.

Session Agreements:

• From Nicole Brewer’s “Anti-Racist Theatre”
  • Speak from the I
  • Take Care of Yourself
  • Speak and Listen in Draft
  • Respect the Agenda, but Hold it Lightly
  • All Truths are Valid
  • What is learned, leaves. What is shared, stays.

If you have any questions about this space, please contact ktswebinars@gmail.com.

Adi Cabral (they/them) is a voice and dialect coach, actor, and intimacy director. Cabral has coached professionally at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (CO), the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (MO), New Repertory Theatre (MA), the New Hazlett Theater Company, and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NY). Adi is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and Fitzmaurice Voicework and a certified Master Reiki Healer and Teacher. They currently serve as Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement at the University of Nevada, Reno where their research focuses on training methods for the LGBTQ+ Identified actor. Cabral is the co-author of the text Here’s How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender Women. For more information, please visit www.adicabral.com. | @adrianoacabral

Amani Dorn (she/her) recently relocated to Atlanta after 2 years as a Resident Artist at PCPA Theatrefest and is now pursuing dialect coaching full-time. She is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Following receiving her MFA in Acting from U.C. Irvine, Amani worked all over the country as an actor, teacher, and occasionally stunt performer. Prior to joining PCPA, she taught various subjects in acting at U.C. Irvine, New York Film Academy, and in outreach programs for Cal Shakes as well as private and semi-private coaching. Some of her recent acting credits include Dionne in Hair (The Mountain Play), Intisar in Veils (The Pear Theatre), Storm in Marvel Universe Live! (Nat’l Tour), Trix in The Drowsy Chaperone (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), The Woman in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (U.C. Irvine), and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Swan Shakespeare Festival). For more information, please visit www.amanidorndialects.com. | @amanidorndialects

There is no registration fee for this meeting. Future webinars will have a $10 registration fee to cover hosting costs.

All webinars are recorded, so if you can’t attend live, you can still register and watch at your convenience!

Once a month, every member of the KTS community is invited to connect, collaborate, and share all things KTS related.  If you have taken Experiencing Speech or have been introduced to fundamental Experiencing Speech practices, or if you are interested in this aspect of the work, this webinar is for you!  Your KTS questions, solutions, phobias, phenomena, details, observations, obsessions, and fancies are all invited to the conversation. Our aim for the Webinar Series is to keep us connected on a regular basis, sustain our KTS conversations, and strengthen our growing KTS community.

Our webinars were inspired by VASTA’s forum on “Things that Work.”

Wanna Lead a Webinar?

We welcome volunteer facilitators and lead presenters for our monthly webinars.  Is there a topic you would like to research and/or share your experience with? Would this be a useful line item on your CV?  Contact the KTS Webinar Series organizers Adi Cabral and Amani Dorn at ktswebinars@gmail.com to schedule you as a KTS webinar facilitator.