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Increasing Vocal Expressiveness through Physical Theatre Techniques Singing is storytelling. Regardless of the genre a performer chooses, a singer should create a character, evoke a mood, and sometimes even delineate a plot. Yet the specialized and stylized nature of vocal performance, with its enormous intellectual and mechanical demands on the vocal apparatus, can sometimes divorce a performer from the rest of the body - cutting in half the available resources for expressiveness. Physical theatre techniques, while not aimed solely at vocal production, have long been used by actors to reduce the bodily tensions which inhibit free and natural communication. This workshop will use group and individual exercises to identify and release areas of physical and vocal tension, build and channel physical energy, and encourage the natural personality of the performer to come forward. Leslie Pasternack and William Adams will introduce concepts and exercises performers can easily incorporate into their ongoing vocal development to support and enhance their approach to the stage. Contact William Adams about providing this workshop to your group, community or voice studio. We can focus this workshop on topics specific to your needs. Participants should dress to move, and wear secure footwear with non-marking soles. | ||||||||||||||
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes | ||||||||||||||
Dr. William Adams - educator, conductor, performer, composer and scholar - is a member of NATS and MTNA and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. For over 20 years, Dr. Adams has taught students of all ages and abilities. He continues to present workshops, master classes and lectures on vocal health and pedagogy, solo performance practice, conducting, the spirituality of music and music education advocacy throughout the country. Dr. Adams held teaching positions at universities in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas as well as posts in the public school systems of Texas and California. As an operatic baritone, he continues to perform throughout the United States with leading choral societies and orchestras. | ||||||||||||||
Dr. Leslie Pasternack actor, director, playwright, historian and teacher - is a graduate of the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre and earned her Ph.D. in Theatre History from the University of Texas at Austin. She taught Theatre History and Acting for six years at Northeastern University. Leslie has studied with the Dell'Arte Players Company, Christopher Bayes, the SAFD, and Valerie Dean and Don Rieder of Cirque de Soleil. Her solo performance, Brighina and the Worm, was featured at the 2005 Estrogenia Sola Voce Festival at manhattantheatresource, and Good at That has played at both manhattantheatresource and NYC's Stage Left Studio. See www.BuffoonWorks.com for more info. | ||||||||||||||
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