Presented as part of our 2026 rotating faculty series:
Developing Your Voice — A Vocal Training Intensive Workshop Series with Alex Bulmer
About Alex Bulmer:
Alex Bulmer is an award winning Blind playwright, voice teacher, actor and performance maker with thirty five professional years working across Canada and the UK.
She finds joy and potency through mutual growth and original expression, is dedicated to inter-dependent practice, and guided by an invitation to follow the grain of her own wood.
Alex is co-creator of multiple Blind-led productions including May I Take Your Arm, Perceptual Archaeology, Gesture and Maddy and The Invisible Band of Groovers.
She is artistic director of Toronto-based Fire and Rescue Arts, which de-centres visuality from imagination to creation.
In 1990, Alex graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Since then, she has been supporting Blind and Sighted performers to experience vocal freedom – the deep connection between breath and voice, the energy of resonance and vibration and the dynamic physicality of speech.
About This Intensive Workshop Series:
Developing Your Voice is a special intensive workshop series that addresses the specific vocal skills needed by both audio describers of dance and self-describing dancers.
In Alex’s words: The human voice, your voice, is your primary instrument as a describer. When describing Dance, your voice is called upon to be more flexible and expressive. So let’s learn to play your vocal instrument well!
In these workshops, you will learn how to prepare your voice for description, and gain skills to enable you to express language in the most effective way.
The workshops will cover a brief overview of how the voice works, discuss how you can keep your voice healthy, and offer exercises to nourish and develop your vocality, and better engage with the physicality of language.
You will learn a warm up routine that you can practice to develop and support you to vocally best connect Blind audiences with the art of Dance, whether as an audio describer or dance or a self-describing dancer.
Workshop Dates and Details:
These 16 intensive workshops are designed for the learning needs of different professional groups, but can be approached in a cumulative way.
They will be offered virtually on Zoom.
All workshops start at 4 PM (Eastern Time), and include 60 minutes of vocal technique followed by 30 minutes of open question and answer time.
- Wednesday April 1, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday April 15, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday May 6, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday May 20, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday June 3, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday June 17, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday July 1, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday July 15, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday August 5, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday August 19, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday September 2, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday September 16, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday October 7, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday October 21, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday November 4, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
- Wednesday November 18, 2026: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
You can register for any of the dates in this workshop series via Zoom at the following link:
Zoom Registration Link for Developing Your Voice — A Vocal Training Intensive Workshop Series with Alex Bulmer
You can also send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Developing Your Voice