The Sympathetic Skull: Improving Vocal Function by Optimizing Vocal Resonance

What is vocal resonance? What is resonating… space or bone, or a combination? How much of our body can resonate with sound at any given moment? Is resonance passive or active? In this class, Robert will guide you through a series of sound and movement explorations that will prepare the vocal system in general - waking up our sense of the vocal tract - as well as open new ways of thinking about and working with vocal resonance.

By following Deborah Bowes’ earlier class, these explorations will also connect with your awareness of the lower part of the torso, bringing a clearer sense of how our use of breath, tone and resonance for singing interacts with the organization and coordination of the pelvic floor.

Robert Sussuma, originally from New York City, is an explorer, a life-long learner and a connoisseur of connections: movement, speaking and singing, voice science, emotions, music, motor learning, neurology-in-action, and deep personal development. His formal education is in vocal performance (Bachelors of Music in Voice Performance and Masters of Music in Early Music Voice Performance). In addition, he is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner.

Robert has taught Private Voice Lessons and Voice and Movement Classes at Naropa University (Boulder, Colorado), Haverford College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and PACE University (New York, New York), and has maintained an active private teaching studio, for 20 years, working with with well-known and successful actors and singers in NYC, on Broadway, and abroad. Robert has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Barcelona University.

Robert leads classes and workshops online (www.vocallearningsystems.com/upcoming), offers voice lesson packages (www.robertsussuma.com/work-together), and has created THE SINGING SELF LIBRARY PROGRAM with over 350 hours of recorded classes and lessons (www.vocallearningsystems.com/library).