KATELAND
Questions and Answers
Success begins with a question.
Who am I?
Hi, my name is Kateland.
I am a professional actor, singer and teacher.
What I want most in this world is to help people realize the art and artist within them. To inspire others to open their minds and ask the big questions, the questions whose answers change your life forever. These answers unlock the deeper truth of you and the world: the place where your true potential lies.
I love movies, musical theater, classical music, podcasts, and a good guilty pleasure series to binge.
How do I teach?
I tailor acting and singing lesson plans to the individual student their:
and develop common vocabulary with each student based on how they feel and experience the songs, scenes and exercises we explore.
Lessons are student led. This means the format of all lessons follow the flow of the student's interests, questions, and goals.
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Have a goal for a particular song or scene? The lesson will focus around reaching that goal.
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Have an upcoming audition? The lesson will focus on crafting and preparing your performance for that audition
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Have a long term goal? Lessons over a number of weeks will breakdown and clarify key concepts and skill sets to get you there.
Typically lessons include a balance of engaging the imagination, exploring the physical experience of different techniques, and then backing it up with relevant historical, scientific, and psychological information that can help to clarify questions about what they are feeling when they perform.
goals
song & scene choices
current projects
What do I teach?
The following is a list of subjects I teach:
Vocal Technique
Acting Technique
Anatomy for the Singer/ Actor
Psychology for the Singer/Actor
Musicianship/ Music Theory
Acting Theory/ Script Analysis
Movement for the Singer/Actor
Diction (IPA)
Voice for Actors
Performance Technique for the Singer/Actor
Audition and Performance Preparation
Over the course of our work together, based on your goals, interests, and skill level I will address and incorporate all of these areas of study into your private lessons.
If you have a desire to focus on any one of these subjects, please let me know so that I can incorporate it to a greater extent in your lessons.
If you express a desire not to focus on a particular area of study, I will never insist upon it.
If you do not have a preference, or request a specific focus on any of the above topics:
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all singing lessons will primarily focus on vocal technique to free and balance the voice
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all acting lessons will focus on acting technique to craft and liberate your performance
And the other topics will be covered as appropriate in your training :)
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Vocally I specialize in pop/ rock, musical theater, and classical music, and train actors in drama and comedy: everything from Shakespeare through contemporary works. I have been teaching since 2011.
Why do I teach this way?
I am a classically trained singer and actor.
I received my Bachelor’s of Music from University of California Irvine, and my Masters of Music from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, both in vocal performance.
At the conservatory I focused on classes in training the musical brain and becoming a teaching artist. I am very interested in the psychology of studying and training art and how to most efficiently develop the artist through the most fun and easy to understand methods.
Post graduation I focused on acting, developing my skills beyond what was taught in the conservatory, becoming a classically trained actor. I teach a very Stanislavski / Stella Adler approach, and use Socratic Methods to guide and enlighten the artist to the truth and freedom of their art within the context and form of its history, so that they can be grounded in their creative choices and have faith in all performances and auditions.
Simply put, lessons are Socratic and student led for two reasons:
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Students develop faster within this framework
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Student led lessons inspire ownership over their education and craft, as well as develop increased faith in their own intuition. A strong intuition is extremely valuable and necessary for any career in the arts.
What do I believe?
I believe all people have the potential to be artists.
All people are creative and inventive. To decide to take your creativity a step further and invest the time, energy, and passion in to training is how you become an artist.
I believe all people deserve to be treated with respect.
It is impossible to learn and grow in anything if every choice and mistake you make is minimized and criticized.
Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to me that my studio remain an open space, a safe learning environment, where all questions are welcomed and mistakes are encouraged: because we can not grow until we try.
I believe when you feel and live fully in your performance, the audience will feel fully and be captivated by your performance. I help artists to explore the full depths of their range and potential so that they never sell themselves or the audience short.
I believe in trusting your intuition.
It will liberate your creativity and will help guide you through making important life and career choices to build a life most aligned with your goals and passions.
I believe the biggest blocks artists face are tied directly to tensions:
tensions held in the body, our hearts, or our beliefs are what are typically blocking us from reaching complete freedom and truth in our performances, and I enjoy helping artists over those hurdles so they can claim full artistic integrity.
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