How does the schedule work?
This year we’ll be working with streams and electives. During the registration everybody has chosen their main stream which contains fixed workshops. Besides these stream session we have scheduled some electives. We’ll be using SCHED (a platform that helps create timetables for events) when choosing your electives. This way everybody will get a personal schedule straight away. SCHED can be used online as a webversion or via an app on Android and IOS. At the moment we are working hard on the last details so SCHED can go live as soon as possible. All participants will receive an invitation to select their electives once SCHED has gone live. Below you will find the descriptions of the stream sessions and electives so you can already make a pre-selection.
Theresa Weatherbee – Performance and Theatre Stream and Electives
Stream1 – Acting for Singers – Storytelling Skills – What do barbershoppers have in come with great storytellers? Let’s look at the skills used in storytelling and see how they relate to the barbershop world. In this class you will discover a wide range of skills used to tell a story effectively.
Stream 2 – Acting for Singers – Five Question Methodology – The five most important questions, is a practical methodology, designed and used by the pros to get an ensemble cast on the same page. It was developed to give performers the skills required to transmit the true message of the song to their audience, so in this interactive class, we will take a song, analyze it together by using these specific questions, and develop a plan of action that will ensure an engaging, high level performance.
Stream 3 – Acting for Singers – You Don’t Have to Say It to Convey It – Non-verbal communication such as facial expression, movements, gestures, eye contact and body language are extremely important and, in some instances, more powerful than the spoken word. Learn how to use this “silent language” to convey your true feelings and become skilled at how to use body language to keep the attention of your audience.
Stream 4 – Learning the Secrets of the FBI – Singing actors tend to focus on their voice, words and notes. While we can’t get far without good vocal technique, a strong physical presence is crucial to the performer’s success. This workshop helps the performer to expand their movement vocabulary and body-awareness. In this interactive workshop we will use exercises and strategies to work from the inside out as a means of expression, “making the invisible visible”. Using the Full Body Involvement.
Stream 5 – Engage on Stage – “Performance from the inside out”, when your audience comes to see you perform, they expect nothing other than to be entertained. Within each one of us there is a wonderful psychophysical power that can be sourced to hold our audiences in captivated attention. In this workshop, we’ll take the technical journey to the emotional side of performing. Learn the techniques actors and stage performers use to discover their role on the stage.
Elective – Judges Round Table (Andrew, Cay & Theresa) – bring your questions for each of the judging categories and chat in an informal round table situation with those that know!
Cay Outerbridge – Basic Music and Barbershop Stream and Electives
Stream 1: Key Signatures, Time Signatures, Pitch, and Rhythm – This will be an introduction to sight-singing and identifying pitches and rhythms. We will learn a framework for understanding pitch and rhythm (key and time signatures), and we will build our skills around demonstrating and identifying scale degrees and rhythms.
Stream 2: Intervals and Chords – Building on Part 1, we will explore how different pitches work together as intervals and as chords. We will use this to begin a discussion of tuning.
Stream 3: Basic Vocal Technique – How do we produce sound? We will explore body alignment, breath, and vocal fold closure.
Stream 4: Formants/What is a vowel? – What exactly makes vowels sound different from each other? We will explore the idea of formants and how we use our resonance tract to create different sounds.
Elective – Barbershop arranging, Beginning through to Intermediate – This class will take you through a process for arranging a simple song. Prerequisites: Basic understanding of music theory
Elective – Judges Round Table (Andrew, Cay & Theresa) – bring your questions for each of the judging categories and chat in an informal round table situation with those that know!
Kim Newcomb – Youth Chorus Stream, Half & Half and Electives
Elective – Sight Reading ABC’s (2 x 55 minutes) – This class provides methods that simplify the sight reading process for your success! We will use tools such as solfege, kodaly hand signs, and more to aid in developing your sight reading skills.
Elective – Vocal Pedagogy for Beginners – This class will cover the basics that every singer should know about their instrument. We will discuss how the voice works, use vocal exercises to explore how we can be most efficient with our voices, and even have some one on one voice lessons to work through your own vocal exploration if there is time!
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Katie Taylor – Women’s Chorus Stream and Electives
Elective – Using Improv to Improve Your Performance – learn some basic improv theater skills that help you communicate better with your fellow performers and audience!
Elective – Involving YOUTH in Your Show – learn some ways that you can better communicate with music educators as well as ideas to involve Youth in your chapter show or even
Elective – Tag Teaching (any voicing) – tag zone with Katie – all voicings and chances to sing as a group or pop out as a small group!
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Jenni Sheets – Half & Half and Electives
Elective – Branding & Marketing Your Chorus/Quartet – Half and Half quartet not only sings really well, but they enjoy a popular online presence. None of this is by accident! Join Jenni as she shares how to successfully market your quartet or chorus brand.
Elective – Theatre Performance and Barbershop (with Cy Wood on this one)
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Marlous Luiten – Musical Theatre Chorus and Electives
Elective – Script Writing your convention set – Approaching your convention set from a theatrical point of view makes sense. The audience will understand your intentions most likely better. A great tool is using a script. Singers will know what to do every minute of your package. From the moment the curtains open till they close again. In this workshop I will give tips how to approach your convention set and how to use and build up a script.
Elective – Roleplaying – getting out of your comfort zone – Trust, trust, positivity, more trust and some great games will get singers to be playful and willing to get into roleplaying. Eventually most singers will find it easier to get into the emotion of the song when they can play a role, play someone else. In this workshop: tools, games and a lot of fun with finding different characters within yourself.
Tindra Thor – Coaching and Electives
Elective – Creating Visual Concepts, Choreography and Staging
Elective – Dance class for inspiration on choreography
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Andrew Rembecki – Singing Stream and Electives
Stream 1: Singing Anatomy Basics:
How does singing work? Learn the basics of the process of singing, and why it’s important for us to know how the voice works.
Stream 2: Singing Anatomy Basics 2:
We’ll continue on the topics of the anatomy of the voice, and try to dispel some of the most common vocal technique myths.
Stream 3: Identifying Vocal Inefficiencies:
What are we listening for in a singers voice? We’ll have volunteers (or quartets) sing and try to identify areas for improved efficiency.
Stream 4: Using Technology in Singing:
Use technology, whether it be an Apple or Android device, to improve your skills as a singer!
Elective – Technology in Rehearsal – Use technology, whether it be an Apple or Android device, to improve your skills as a singer!
Elective – What is Solfege and how can I use it? – Learn how solfege can improve your singing skills and music reading skills as a singer and musician. We’ll cover the basics of solfege, learn why it’s useful, and learn how to apply it to your everyday practice! We’ll even learn some tags using solfege!
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Elective – Judges Round Table (Andrew, Cay & Theresa) – bring your questions for each of the judging categories and chat in an informal round table situation with those that know!
Cy Wood – Men’s Chorus Stream, Half & Half and Electives
Elective – From Broadway to Barbershop – Learn methods and pedagogical approaches that professional actors use on Broadway to enhance your musicality, singing and performance through use of acting objectives. How do performances from Broadway differ from Barbershop performances; how are they similar? Bring the inner human out of your non-human performance.
Elective – Look to the Lyric – Study how we can communicate on a deeper level using both non-verbal and verbal communication—all while singing a cappella! Let’s respect the art of lyricists and arrangers by intentionally bringing to life the words they have selected by identifying prosody and moments of non-verbal communication. Identify moments often passed while singing that can help enhance the message of the pieces we sing.
Beth Brimmicombe – Coaching and Electives
Elective – Quartet Warm Up Routine
Elective – Morning Warm-Up Routines
Elective – What it takes to become a Sweet Adelines International Top 3 quartet
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Rob van der Meule – Music Educators Stream, coaching and Electives
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic –This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Elective – Basic Directing 101 – know your patterns, how to stand and how to communicate
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – come with your questions and be prepared to sing in front of others!
Ryan McCall – Half & Half, Coaching and Electives
Elective – How to be a lead
Elective – Performance driven learning
Elective – Get out of your way: Mindsets for rehearsal and performance
Patrick Bergers – Coaching and Electives
Elective – How to Start a Quartet
Elective – Tag Singing (4 tags in 1 hour!)
Nancy Kelsall – Coaching and Electives
Elective – Nerves and Preparation for Contest
Elective – Voice Lesson / Clinic (max 4 people) – This class will have a maximum of 4 people and each person will get a 15 minute voice lesson.
Elective – Favourite Singing Tools
Elective – Things learnt (and mistakes made) leading a chorus from 74% to 85%!
Stuart Sides – Coaching Stream and Electives
Elective – Sing Something Different – 6 part SATB ‘Evening Rise’ – learn an easy 6 part song in 1 hour.