Voices Amp'd

BODIES AMP’D: A MOVING ANTHOLOGY premieres May 14th at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center in Lexington, KY at 6:30pm. Tickets are pay what you can! Listen as the leaders of the project share about their seven (7) month journey with ten (10) women from across the country. Celebrating stories of inheritance, legacies and being haunted by the past with some Burlesque, Broadway, Ballet and West African Dance - we celebrate our journey and share about the process!

Bodies Amp'd: A Moving Anthology - Vanessa and Ellie continue interviews with the artists involved in Bodies Amp'd including Emma Becker, Rowen Haigh, and Emma Grace Imes about their experiences creating over the past 7 months, how they found their way to the project, and what they are looking forward to most in their final performance. Bodies Amp'd: A Moving Anthology premieres in Lexington, KY in May at the Downtown Arts Center. 

Bodies Amp'd - Vanessa Becker Weig and Ellie Clark interview Lydia Guillot and Margaret McGladrey about their experience with Bodies Amp'd, a sneak peek into their devised solo pieces, and what it means to share virtual space together. Bodies Amp'd is devising original material created and developed with ten (10) women from around the country who have been writing, dancing, and moving together for the last six (6) months. An intergenerational creation exploring the legacy of the feminine body, Bodies Amp'd: A Moving Anthology will be shared in May 2022. We will continue to publish short interviews with all of the participants. Listen to learn more!

Bodies Amp'd - Vanessa Becker Weig and Ellie Clark interview Jess Reese and Lora Wilson about finding their way to the Bodies Amp'd project and a few of their favorite moments throughout. Bodies Amp'd is in the middle of devising an original piece created and developed with ten (10) women from around the country who have been taking workshops for 6 months in writing, dance, theatre movement, and devised creation. The piece will be shared in the Spring of 2022. We will continue to publish short interviews with all of the participants leading up to the final sharing. Listen to learn more!

Lauren Buglioli - On her work in the film and TV industry, persevering through the impact America Media Culture had on her at a young age, how her work in early childhood education and special education inspires her work as an actress, her "go to" mindset leaders, daily routines and habits that can serve you in 2022, and so much more. 

Scout Larken - In her own words, Scout is a "collaborator and loner; learned and intuitive; practical and a dreamer; educator and respecter of folkways; entrepreneur and work-averse; politics enthusiast and artist; rural and urban; a musician who can’t dance; seriously funny."

Lora Wilson - In our first in person interview, Lora shares about her work as a Movement Therapist, healing through dance, her work with our current project, Bodies Amp'd, and her many adventures in mountain climbing. 

Ellie & Vanessa - We are back and can't wait to share out Season Two guests! In this short introductory episode we give a shout out to our Season One guests as well as reflect on the continued effects of the pandemic including burn out, grief, taking space for self care and finding the motivation to keep fighting the good fight as we move forward with Voices Amp'd Season Two into 2022. 

Voices Amp'd is back for Season 2 with Ellie Clark and Vanessa Becker Weig. Throughout the season they will be joined by special guests and the Voices Amplified Team. Visit us at www.VoicesAmplified.net.

Vanessa Davis - On her musical influences, coaching and teaching young artists in Kentucky, the best piece of advice she's ever been given and where you can search and listen to her new extended play album, Pretty Little Cabin: A Quarantine EP. Jumping from piano to guitar, Vanessa shares several of her songs to wrap up Voices Amp'd Season One including the Voices Amp'd theme song I'm Doing Okay. Follow her @songwritervanessa