Breakfast is only included for conference attendees who purchased the all-inclusive registration, and are staying at Hotel Araiza.

The shuttles will leave promptly at 8:30am

Larissa Kelloway & Kimberley Cohan This session will introduce the practical application of the Pilates method as an adjunct practice that supports efficient vocal production and postural control. Participants will be walked through around 24 exercises from the traditional Pilates repertoire or an appropriate modification, and encouraged to explore the application of the method in their body. Participants will leave the session warmed-up, physically and mentally, and be well poised to engage in a day of learning and professional connections.

Tania González Jordán (México)

Elías García (Guanajuato)

Alberto Rosas (traducción Luz Haydée “Tiki” Bermejo)

Tania González, Luisa Huertas, Suriday Ugalde, Óscar Quiroz (Traductor para Luisa)

Ann Cahill & Christine Hamel (USA) (Traductor Oscar Quiroz)

Alberto Rosas y Luz Haydée “Tiki” Bermejo (México)

Pamela Leal (Nuevo Leon) & Mariana Dantiacq (Estado de México)​

Oscar Quiroz Explore the richness of Hispanic golden age drama, practice strategies to embody the complex imagery of these historical texts, and meet the demands of Spanish verse. Despite her proven mastery of poetry and drama, the works of Sor Juana, and other Mexican playwrights of her time, have been largely overlooked outside of the Hispanic world in favor of European writers of the same time. This workshop will serve as an invitation to expand the so called classical canon beyond Europe. Additionally, many of the exercises presented will be permeated by my own experience as an artist and educator in Honduras, which will allow participants to gain insight of the techniques used by contemporary central American theatre makers to embody language and perform these texts onstage, exposing participants to forms and views around voice and theatre from other latitudes.

Amy Chaffee, Audrey LeCrone, Doug Honorof, Ron Carlos, Michael Shipley, Foster Johns, and Adi Cabral. A round table of speech trainers, practitioners and those who train practitioners discuss contemporary practices of dialect design and training of dialect designers. We are an international panel of practitioners and professors with a strong interest in coaching a whole person and moving away from the traditional “general dialect” approach to coaching that we were trained in.

Ann Marie Pollard, Colleen Conroy, Antonio Ocampo Guzmán & Marie Ramírez Downing. A panel presentation and discussion on curating opportunities for bilingual and multilingual students. Hear from actor trainers on how they integrate opportunities for students who are bilingual and multilingual into their actor training curricula. In this conversation, take part in identifying a goal you have for your coaching, learn how to find support through VASTA's network, and hear about strategies for implementing it intentionally.

Jenna Brown, Samyukta Ranganathan, Tessa Smith-Whicker, Heather Baker & Emily Bender. In this session you will be invited to explore how transformative methodologies can be applied to your vocal teaching, performance and research. Through presentation of five diverse, practitioner-based projects, real-world experiences will be synthesised with research to inform the future of respectful, inclusive, intersectional vocal pedagogy and practice.

Presentations by the Mexican delegates BAJA CALIFORNIA, COAHUILA, MICHOACÁN, SONORA, TAMAULIPAS, VERACRUZ. BAJA CALIFORNIA “Dramema” analysis as a pedagogical alternative for voice teaching: A prospective response to teaching challenges during the pandemic By / Por: Emma Guadalupe Bejarle Pano COAHUILA Vocal practice, a privilege that triggers personal growth By / Por: Octavio González MICHOACÁN Transiting and intertwining new possibilities for creative practices By / Por: Guadalupe Vega SONORA Procedural avatars in voice training By / Por: Oscar Carrizosa TAMAULIPAS We survived the fright! By / Por: Demetrio Ávila VERACRUZ Voice to go By / Por: Arturo Toral

Ashleigh Reade, Jeremy Sortore, Anne Thibault Geen & Michael Shipley This workshop suggests a possible framework for considering the impact of our work within a consent-based and identity-sustaining learning environment. Our hope is to make space for actionable steps that center intersectional inclusivity in voice and speech training, and attempt to make conscious our unconscious biases.

Melissa Morgan & Shannon Holmes The pandemic teaching experience revealed that technology can provide the opportunity to engage students from a variety of socioeconomic means and in turn, allows for a more level playing field for any person who desires to study voice. This presentation will reveal our resulting pedagogical strategies and our current journey in creating an Open Educational Resource (OER) pressbook for theatre and singing artists. The goal of this project is to create an accessible, engaging, interactive resource for students to build agency over their vocal development both as singing and theatre specialists. As lead researchers of the Voice Mapping Lab, we strive to forge new innovations in interdisciplinary voice practices.

Amy Hume & Alba Quezada Hear learnings and findings from the virtual studios of two teachers from opposite sides of the world: Alba Quezada from New York and Amy Hume from Melbourne. We will look at the possibility that, in the investigation of teaching spoken voice to pandemic-era cohorts online, an alternative paradigm of learning has been discovered that lends itself to actor-training in the 21st century.

Presentations by the Iberoamerican delegates CHILE, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, PUERTO RICO, REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA, URUGUAY. CHILE Imagine the emission as waves pouring out of your gaze By / Por: Sara Pantoja EL SALVADOR *xxx* By / Por: Patricia Rodríguez GUATEMALA *xxx* By / Por: Dharma Morales PUERTO RICO xxx By / Por: Carola García López REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA From necessity to possibility: teaching the professional use of the voice in the Dominican Republic By / Por: Reynaldo Infante URUGUAY *xxx* By / Por: Jhoanna Duarte

Rudolf Hendrikx Inclusivity in Vocal Pedagogy; how to diversify our teaching environments and celebrate the unique sounds that we make, rather than align them to a standard that is familiar to the "native Anglophone' 'abled bodied' listener.

The shuttles will leave promptly after all afternoon sessions are completed.