VOCAL LAB with JULIANNA BLOODGOOD: THE VOICE OF RELEASE

WHEN: September 4–6, 2026 (Friday–Sunday), 10 am–5 pm (with a break from 1 to 2 pm)
WHERE: September 4 at POGON’s Small Hall; September 5 and 6 at Tango Club Marabú (23 Šenoina Street)
WHO IS IT FOR: The workshop is intended for both artists and non-artists, including singers, actors, performers, students, and anyone interested in exploring the potential of the voice through body-oriented practices, regardless of previous experience. The working language is English.
APPLICATION: Please send your application, including a short statement of motivation and your contact details (phone number and email), to ganznova@gmail.com by August 28, 2026 at the latest. As the number of places is limited and applications are accepted until capacity is reached, we recommend applying as soon as possible.
For more information, contact ganznova@gmail.com

The Voice of Release

Full body, full breath, full emotion, full potential.
An embodied approach to vocal training which utilizes somatic practices and vocal technique to bring about the awareness, awakening and activation of our authentic voices. Exploration of voice as experienced through the body and the space around us. The body is our gateway to all creative sources, and from the body we begin our investigation of voice, sounding, song and words through a dynamic exploration of the origins of sound. Through a flow of movement and breath we can awaken sound vibrations within the body -resonating the bones and tissues- creating a visceral understanding of the voice and enlivening new possibilities for vocal expression.

The Voice of Release is a special approach to vocalising which focuses on the act of giving voice to one's emotions. It is a transformative process and something that we collectively lack in our contemporary structures. Part of our unique human experience is that we are able to give shape and substance to our feelings through art; transmuting our inner experiences and emotions into something that can be shared, witnessed, supported and released. To express our emotional pain through our voice is a natural process and through shared and held space, witness and support of community and the powerful act of vocalising, our feelings can become a thing of beauty that we can transform and release. We will cycle through different creative processing and vocal release techniques and conclude the process with creative and physical integration, beginning and ending with lightness and joy.

Julianna Bloodgood
Theatre maker, vocalist and teacher
juliannabloodgood.com
https://www.juliannabloodgood.com/music

Julianna Bloodgood (USA/Poland) is a vocalist, actress, movement artist, and teacher whose work explores the connection between body and voice, ritual in performance, and the practice of lamentation. She was a leading actress with the award-winning Song of the Goat Theatre (Poland, 2009–2019), performing in and premiering acclaimed productions including Songs of Lear, Portraits of the Cherry Orchard, Return to the Voice, Hamlet: A Commentary, Dead Walk Love, Crazy God, and Island.

Julianna is an associate artist with Brú Theatre of Galway, Ireland, where much of her work has centered on lament and the voice. In 2024, she was the composer and vocal performer for Somnium, a company-devised piece that premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival to critical acclaim. In 2021, she composed, served as music director, and performed in Gol, which explored the tradition of Irish keening (caoineadh), the lament for the dead. She also recorded her compositions for Olagón, a virtual reality lament for the land, crafting the soundscape in collaboration with Brú and the ensemble of Gol. Julianna also co-created Cráite, a solo script for a female performer that examines historical reconciliation through ‘long-form lament,’ supported by a bursary from the Abbey Theatre of Ireland. Their collaborations also include NOX, an experimental site-specific work of vocal and physical theatre inspired by Irish death laments and the women who carried this tradition, which premiered in Rijeka, Croatia.

Julianna was awarded a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to research and develop a script based on Saint Catherine of Siena. In 2022, she directed, premiered, and performed Little Thunder, a theatrical concert in collaboration with composer Katarzyna Szwed and the Warsaw Stage Society, exploring the lineage of female mystics. And in 2024 she premiered the work of composer Kasia Szwed called I Wilderness, Ja Puszcza, a requiem for the land for orchestra and three voices.

Julianna teaches her methodologies, Embodied Voice Practices and the Polyphonic Body, internationally, focusing on the healing and expressive capacities of voice and body. She holds a master’s degree with high honors from Manchester Metropolitan University, a degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and training in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, with additional study in India, Thailand, and across Europe. Lamentation is a central through-line in her work, both as performer and teacher