Unleashing the Voice is a four-week journey into the wild, intimate, and unexpected possibilities of the human voice. Through breath, movement, deep listening, and improvisation, we will explore the voice-body connection, deepen physical and vocal awareness, and build a strong foundation in breath support, resonance, vocal freedom, and healthy sound production.
Together, we will explore range, texture, instinct, emotion, and the pleasure of making sound—developing practical tools that participants can bring into singing, performance, public speaking, and their own creative work. No previous experience is necessary. Come with curiosity, be game, and be ready to play.
Saturdays
October 3rd, October 10th, October 17th, October 24th
10am - 1pm
in the Skunk
About the Instructor
Carmina Escobar (Mexico City, 1981) is a Los Angeles–based radical vocalist and intermedia artist working across voice, performance, sound art, experimental theater, and film. Her work engages the voice as a site of rupture, ritual, and transformation, moving through questions of migration, embodiment, and communication. She has presented work internationally at venues including The Broad, REDCAT, The Kitchen, CTM Festival, and Fábrica de Arte Cubano, and is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award (2026) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Award in Music/Sound (2020).
Alongside her artistic practice, Escobar has developed a rigorous and expansive pedagogical practice over more than two decades, including as faculty in the VoiceArts program at CalArts. She has led workshops and masterclasses internationally across the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Norway, the Czech Republic, and Portugal, working with artists across disciplines.
Through her studio HOWL SPACE, she cultivates a student-centered, embodied approach to the voice, integrating body and breath awareness, extended vocal techniques, and vocal improvisation as tools for both performance and creation. Her teaching opens a space for experimentation, risk, and discovery, where participants develop their own vocal language and generate original work. Rooted in the understanding of voice as both instrument and process, she supports artists in expanding their expressive range, building vocal and physical endurance, and sustaining practices that emerge from the body rather than imposed form. Her teaching philosophy prioritizes process before system, behavior before form, and intuition before reason.
Class cancellation policy: No refunds, exchanges, or transfers.