LAB-Yoga for singers
Yoga is ancient and has evolved in different directions over the years. Always, the process of getting closer to your core is put first.
A few years ago, Dorine took a yoga teacher training course to deepen her own practice as a professional singer. She collected the elements from yoga that make you stronger as a singer and interpreted them from her own experience. Yoga is part of for Dorine’s daily routine, to feel good as a person and as a classical singer, both physically and mentally.
“Exercises do not need to be complicated to be effective.”
Skills
In the classes Yoga for singers, you learn:
- physical and mental awareness
- to move consciously
- to breathe consciously
- to search and find the balance between being active and relaxed at the same time
- to find alignment in your posture
- to listen to your body
Why
The better you feel about yourself, the better you sing.
Basic principles
You are unique.
You will only do exercises that feel right and will always respect your body.
Exercises do not need to be complicated to be effective.
You do yoga for the process of the training.
About Dorine Mortelmans
As a professional singer: Blonde ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Zomeropera Alden-Biesen, Brussels Midsummer Mozartiade); Serpetta ( La Finta Giardiniera , Brussels Midzomer Mozartiade); Euridice ( Orfeo ed Euridice , Gluck); Belinda ( Dido en Aeneas , Opera Zuid en Opéra de Wallonie); Serpina ( La Serva Padrona , Festival de l’Eté de Mosan); La Musica ( Orfeo , Monteverdi), regisseur: Pierre Audi; Adele ( Die Fledermaus , Internationale Opera Producties); Ljoebima ( Skupoy , Pashkevich, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam); Frasquita ( Carmen , Internationale Opera Producties); Zerlina ( Opera Buffa , Laika en Transparant); Lucy ( De Telefoon, Festival Les Musicales de Beloeil)
2016-2019 in Theater Bielefeld: Anne Frank ( Anne en Zef , Krus); Gretel, Taumännchen ( Hänsel und Gretel , Humperdinck); Amor, Damigella ( L’Incoronazione di Poppea , Monteverdi); Tebaldo, Voce dal Cielo ( Don Carlo , Verdi); Gianetta ( L’Elisir d’Amore , Donizetti); Ygraine ( Ariane et Barbe-bleue , Dukas); Coriphée ( Amadis , JC Bach); Papagena ( Die Zauberflöte, Mozart); Lissy ( Benzin, von Reznicek); Etudiante, Aubergiste ( Charlotte Salomon , Dalbavie)
At La Monnaie : een van de zes nonnen ( De Vurige Engel, Prokofjev), onder leiding van Kazushi Ono; Noémie ( Cendrillon , Massenet); Haydn Amore; Klein Engeland; dekking voor Jano ( Jenufa , Janacek); cover voor Amour ( Orphée et Euridice , Gluck/Berlioz)
With Opera Vlaanderen : Stimme des Falken en Hüter der Schwelle ( Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Strauss); Amore ( Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Monteverdi); Dochter ( Echnaton , Glas); concertuitvoeringen van Agrippina Condotta a Morire (Händel)
As a soloist she has concert experience with several choirs and orchestras conducted by Patrick Davin, Christian Arming, Koen Kessels, Leo Hussain, Alexander Kalajdzic, Gregor Rot, Guy Van Waas and Frank Agsteribbe amongst others. She has performed the solo-parts in various oratorios.: Requiem (Mozart); Gloria (Vivaldi); Messias, Judas Maccabaeus en Dixit Dominus (Händel); verschillende Bachcantates.
She has sung several times with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège including: Carmina Burana
Other passions of Dorine are Lied, chamber music and creating her own projects. In these projects she’s always looking for a story. She also participated in performances where she acted in baroque style with gestures. She forms a liedduo with Barbara Baltussen.
Dorine’s education:
- Master’s in music at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp
- Opera Studio of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel
- Opera Studio the Netherlands
Dorine gives singing and yoga lessons to singers and musicians.
As a yoga teacher
Dorine Mortelmans is a professional classical singer. She discovered the benefits of yoga during her vocal training, and it has been a foundation for her singing ever since.
During her permanent soloist contract in Germany, she built up a daily yoga practice. It gave her structure and footing in this new environment and made her feel good about herself. Afterwards, she started freelancing again and, in addition to singing, she continues to immerse herself in the wonderful world of yoga and breathing (Yoga Deepening Course Mind in Motion, Teachers Training Studio Hida, MBSR, Breath is life, The science behind Pranayama, Toumo – Institut Maurice Daubard, The Elements of Mastery – Matt Giordano , …). She keeps on discovering benefits. That’s why she likes to share her expertise during the Yoga classes she teaches to the musicians of the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp.
- Yoga voor muzikanten @ Conservatorium Antwerpen (2022-)
- workshop Yoga voor Zangers – Adem @ European Voice Teacher Association, Belgium (Febr. 2023)
- workshops Yoga voor Zangers, Yoga voor Muzikanten, Introductie tot Mindfulness, Visualisatie, … voor (semi)professionelen en amateurs @ Conservatorium Antwerpen, Close Opera, Voice Academy, DKO, …
- workshops Adem voor Spiras, academie voor ademhaling
- Groepslessen Yoga voor Zangers
- Privélessen Yoga voor Zangers voor solisten die uitdagende voorstellingen voorbereiden
Sharing YOUR expertise
With LAB-O we create a learning community that wants to reach beyond its own conservatory.
LAB-O wants to become a knowledge circle: everyone is invited to contribute within a certain framework