October 5, 2021
The Power of the Pivot
I have a confession: I’ve been hankering to do the six week course, Voke, in person, much moreso than online. After an 18 month, pandemic-induced vocal gathering drought, I suddenly found myself involved in THREE different outdoor vocal events starting a week before my birthday, and throughout my b-day weekend! I’m seeing that it actually is possible for me to do a local course up here in the Hudson River Valley in a covid-safe way, so that’s what I’m doing. Details coming soon.
I think I’m drawn to vocal improvisation precisely because of my tendency to want to rigidly stick to “the plan” in my everyday life, even when the wise, still voice says, it’s time to pivot. What is your relationship to uncertainty? To the unexpected?
Also, don’t you fret: even if you don’t live in the HRV vicinity, you still get to work with me one-on-one online! I have a phenomenal Six Session Series of 1-on-1 coaching for heart-centered people who want to get creatively unstuck, build confidence, and let your inner child out to play. Sign up if you desire to clear energy blockages, strengthen your discernment and decision-making muscles, deepen your listening and intuition, and empower your own wise, still voice through vocal play, breathwork, guided journaling and more!
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Onome is a vocalist, creativity catalyst, facilitator and interdisciplinary artist of Urhobo heritage in the Niger Delta. She incorporates improvisation into her practice as a tool to expand consciousness, creativity, and personal development. Through her audience-interactive performances, workshops and sound installations, Onome embodies joy, enchantment, and infinite possibility. She is a partner artist at Carnegie Hall as a core member of the vocal improvisation ensemble, Moving Star.
She has performed at hundreds of venues nationally, recorded soundscapes for podcasts, and created vocal film scores. She received her MFA in Performance Studies at Pratt Institute. She is the artistic director for Lush Tongue, a vocal improvisation project where sound, creativity, self-discovery, connection, and joy converge through singing—via sound healing sessions, workshops, vocal coaching, retreats, and concerts. She leads Soul Incites, a women’s self-development community. She got her start in spoken word poetry and opera via Nuyorican Poets Cafe and New York University, and now facilitates community vocal immersions at concert halls, conferences, galleries, museums, schools, cultural centers, shelters, prisons, parks, churches, online, wherever voices gather.