Thursday, July 7, 2011

TWO EXCITING HOLAfábrica WORKSHOPS COMING UP THIS SUMMER


HOLAfábrica
presents

SPANISH LANGUAGE
VOICEOVER WORKSHOP

with Manuel Herrera

Six sessions
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
July 12 through July 28, 2011

from 6:30pm Sharp - 8:30pm!

HOLA Office
CSV Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, Room 302, NYC
(F to Delancey / J M Z to Essex / M9, M14A buses)

Manuel Herrera, HOLA Special Projects Director, actor, director, voiceover artist and Rights Acquisitions/Director of AudioLibros for Recorded Books, LLC will direct an advanced voice-over technique workshop for the experienced actor who wishes to fine-tune his/her technique. The workshop covers: diction and voicing in Spanish; interpretation and rhythm; character voices, and narration; professional audition and quick study techniques. Previous HOLA voiceover workshop students invited. Applicants should supply blank CD to record work progress. Optional production of demo tape available at additional cost. Actual voice-over copy will be used for this series. Small classes.


Workshop held at HOLA using the "WhisperRoom."


Register early as there is limited enrollment.
Registration confirmed upon payment. VISA, MC & AMEX accepted.
Small intimate classes (we promise)

HOLA members: $200 (HOLA Membership required)

Spanish language voiceover jobs provide the greatest income potential for the Spanish speaking actor.

Register early as there is limited enrollment.
Registration confirmed upon payment.
Call (212) 253-1015 to register.

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HOLAfábrica
presents

Building Your Repertoire
with SABRINA LASTMAN

This four-week workshop focuses on the development of individual song presentation and interpretation. During the four sessions, close attention will be paid to body awareness and voice technique. Participants will work to develop a song that he/she already knows (bring to class chart/sheet music in the key they sing it, printed copies of lyrics of the song, and CD version of the song from the artist). Open to performing artists with a background in singing.

ART/NY
520 Eighth Avenue,
Room 520C
(between West 36th & West 37th streets), NYC

Four two-hour sessions Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30PM
August 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2011

Workshop price: $120
MasterCard, VISA and American Express
For registration, call HOLA at (212) 253-1015.

Trains: A/C to 34th Street (north exit)
Buses: M20 northbound to 36th Street

sabrinaAbout the Instructor: Sabrina Lastman is a vocalist, performer, composer and educator born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Drawing from jazz, Latin American and contemporary music, often integrating extended vocal techniques she concentrates her work on the Sabrina Lastman Quartet and the creation of interdisciplinary performances relating voice, sound, movement, visuals and theatre. In New York, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Classical Guitar Association of New York, Blues Alley Jazz, Blue Note, Joe's Pub, Yale University, El Museo del Barrio, Juilliard, CUNY, and NYU, among others. She has played with musicians such as Fernando Otero (Grammy Award Winner), Meredith Monk, Bakithi Kumalo, Tali Roth, Pablo Aslan, Emilio Solla, Pedro Giraudo, David Silliman, The M6, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Philip Hamilton and Leonardo Suárez-Paz. Her album, The Folds of the Soul, was nominated by the Graffiti Award 2008 as one of the best jazz albums of the year, and it was considered of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Uruguay. She was awarded grants by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) & New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

She has taught at the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA), IATI Theatre, Middlebury College, Portland Arts & Technology School, Movement Research, New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), Actors Movement Studio, Teatro LATEA, Art for Change, Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, and privately at her own studio. She's the co-director of Vital Vox, a vocal festival exploring the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres by vocal artists creating and performing their own original work.

She has toured internationally playing in many musical and interdisciplinary projects from Tango to New Music. She is currently in her second year at the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program at The Feldenkrais Institute of New York. She graduated from The Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance in Israel.

For more information, go to www.sabrina-lastman.com, www.socorpo.com or www.vitalvoxfest.com.

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