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V O I C E  A S  M O V E M E N T

​Intended for participants desiring an interdisciplinary approach to using voice in performance, or as way of becoming more familiar with one's vocal instrument as a practice:
  • ​Accessing breath and producing sound through anatomical, intuitive, energetic and emotional approaches
  • Engaging language through diction, range, and projection exercises and through ideas of language as music and/or a conveyor of meaning
  • Teaching singing as a natural extension of speaking, in both solo and group forms, and as a way to alter and activate space differently than movement alone
  • Discovering the voice’s place within the intersections of music, theater, dance/movement and visual art
Tune Up/Tune In Sessions
Online group offerings begun in Fall 2021
Winter 2023 Coming Soon!
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Each 1-hour session includes:
  • a physical and vocal warmup focusing on breath, resonance, range and articulation
  • ways to ground, access, and expand more of your energetic body
  • creating your own internal vibration to encourage a sense of touch from the inside out

​Private Lessons
  • curious to find tools to support and access your voice through movement?
  • interested in developing your own unique vocal expression?
  • working on something specific (a speech, monologue, song or voice/movement work) that you could use help in developing/receiving feedback on?
I typically offer lessons in my home studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn, or am available for house calls. As of March 2020 I am also teaching online. Please contact me at psciscioli(at)mac.com for more information.

Coaching
  • integrating voice and movement in your work (as a choreographer, director, creator) and looking to provide your collaborators with some basic tools?
  • working with specific material that you’d like to deepen or find a physically healthy approach to performing?
  • need an outside eye for clarifying your intention or more clearly communicating your work?
I am available to coach various types of companies in "voice as movement". To date I have worked with members of Jane Comfort and Company, Milka Djordjevich, ECHOensemble, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Maré Hieronimus, Thea Little, Juliana F. May/MAYDANCE, Elisabeth Motley, Yackez and Edisa Weeks/Delirious Dances in New York City toward specific performances. For more information, please contact me at psciscioli(at)mac.com
Master Classes / Workshops / Labs
flexible duration:
  • 1 ½ - 3 hours per master class
  • 3 - 5 day workshop
  • 4 - 6 part class series
  • semester-long course
C U R R E N T  &  U P C O M I N G
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Private online and in-person lessons & coachings
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T E S T I M O N I A L S
"Peter has greatly increased my understanding of how breath and movement impact sound. The longer I study with him the deeper my interest and knowledge expand, as his wealth of information seems bottomless. He’s helped me overcome vocal difficulties that enable me to create my sound with more strength and control. I highly recommend Peter as a vocal coach." 
-Nancy Alfaro, Performer/former member of Jane Comfort & Company, NYC

"Floating right now—your offering transporting, Peter. Genuine appreciation for your mastery and warmth which is especially treasured  right now. Smiling throughout. What a gifted artist and generous teacher you are. The song and movement - being in unison and in harmony - lifted us up. Looking forward to whatever’s next!"
-Bidi Dworkin, jazz vocalist, after online workshop supported by Movement Research


"Peter Sciscioli gave a wonderful workshop for our combined Music & Movement and Modern 1 classes.  His ease with the presentation and explanatory demonstrations (some quite extraordinary) really showed us how deeply he is involved in this material, and gave us a glimpse at the breadth of his skill and knowledge.  In one, all too short workshop (due to our class periods), my Music and Movement students were positively excited by the introduction to a different way of thinking about sound, movement, and communication.  I could imagine his teaching being useful to many, either in or out of the Arts."
-John Hanks, Music Director, Duke University Dance Program

"Peter's master class at Oberlin College attracted students from a variety of performance disciplines.  He created a very warm and open atmosphere in the studio, got his ideas across quickly and clearly, and bought the students along with both technical and artistic explorations.  The students looked truly engaged and seemed to really enjoy the class.  As a teacher, Peter clearly addresses both shaping the energy of the class and presenting a clear development of content."                   
-Nusha Martynuk, Professor of Dance, Oberlin College

“In my final de-brief with my class, there was unanimous approval, appreciation and enthusiasm for Peter’s workshop and especially his method. It was disarming, thought-provoking and memory-making.”
-Eric Michael Handman, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Dance, University of Utah

“I credit Peter's teaching of voice-technique to our dance students as being an important factor in their maturity this year.  In addition to giving them tools to technically supporting their voices inside of their movement, perhaps more importantly it worked brilliantly inside of the more subtle process of expanding their definition of what dance is."
-Olase Freeman, Assistant Professor of Dance, Rhode Island College

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P A S T
  • Trinity La MaMa Urban Arts Semester, NYC (2011-2016)
  • Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Earthdance, Plainfield, MA
  • Florida State University in NYC
  • Manlius Pebble Hill High School, Syracuse, NY
  • Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
  • Queens College, Queens, NY
  • Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
  • Rowland Hall High School, Salt Lake City, UT 
  • Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
  • SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
  • Trinity College, Hartford, CT
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Voice as Movement / La voz como movimiento
(5-day workshop)
Part of 
Encuentro Resonancias del Cuerpo
Sponsored by DA escénica, Embajada de Estadas Unidos en Honduras, Mujeres en las Artes and Museo para la Identidad Nacional; Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 2016
video: Laura Bermúdez
Voice As Movement 
(5-day workshop)
Part of BodyMeld Performance Research Academy
Sponsored by the National Fund "Culture" of Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2023
Voice of the Body with Iskra Shukarova 
(7-day workshop)
Sponsored by SCS-Centar Jadro, the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia and the GPS / Global Practice Sharing program of Movement Research with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Skopje, North Macedonia, June 2021
video: Johan Melan
Voice as Movement / La voz como movimiento
(2-day workshop)
Part of 
​Performática; Cholula, Mexico, April 2016
photos: Victor Blanco
R E C E N T
  • Movement Research Faculty, NYC                           Co-facilitator of The Sounding Body series with mayfield brooks, Odeya Nini, Anaïs Maviel, Marisa Michelson, Samita Sinha, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Pyeng Threadgill, and UFly Mothership (Tendayi Kuumba & Greg Purnell) Fall 2017-Fall 2022
  • The Wooster Group Summer Institute                 2019-2022 (classes for teens ages 12-17)​              Check out these videos:                                             YEE-HAW​                                                                 Spring Flock
  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Master Classes)
  • Centar Jadro, Skopje, North Macedonia                    (7-day workshop, presentation and round table discussion co-facilitated with Iskra Shukarova)
  • Kire Miladinoski Dance Studio Zodijak,                  Prilep, North Macedonia (2-day workshop)
  • The Invincible Hall, NYC (Workshop)
  • Drazans Jeugd Theaterschool,                       Willemstad, Curaçao                                       (Masterclass with Petra van Noort)
  • DA escénica, Tegucigalpa, Honduras                           (5-day workshop)
  • Trinity/La Mama Performing Arts Semester, NYC (Master Classes)
  • LEIMAY LUDUS Guest Teacher 2016-2017, 2018 & 2019  (year-long series of classes and labs, 1 and 2-day workshop offerings)
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI            (Coaching for Meredith Monk's suite from Quarry)
  • Centro Cultural Segundo Piso, Cholula, Mexico           (5-day workshop)
  • MIT, Cambridge, MA (Masterclass)
  • Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (Laboratorio: Condensacíon, 5-day Workshop)