The Integrated Voice + DVD - A Complete Voice Course for Actors

A unique new approach to the understanding and training of the actor's voice

Structured as a series of practical workshops, the book leads you, session by session, through the foundations of release and relaxation, breath and voice support

Later sessions concentrate on developing your stamina and muscularity, deep resonance, and your ability to create and sustain extreme vocal states

The book will help you to develop a voice that is utterly integrated with your body, breath, mind and emotion – and, therefore, with any character or text you are working on

Accompanying the 416 page Book is a 110–minute DVD, showing many of the exercises and sessions in action, and featuring full-length workouts and warm-ups which you can join in with, to help you prepare your own voice

The result is a systematic and rigorous course to train and improve one of your most important instruments as an actor

Essential reading (and viewing) for students, training actors, working professionals – and their teachers and coaches

"A great cause for celebration ... a trustworthy and highly instructive companion to the work that takes place in the studio" ~ Jane Boston, Head of the International Centre for Voice

BOOK + DVD CONTENTS

Introduction

SECTION A

Warm-ups/Workouts/Physical

• Main Warm-up/Workout
• Short Warm-up
• Restoration Warm-up
• Angel Wings – semi-supine with arm raises and sound
• Rolling Down the Spine – with breath and voice
• Sun Salutation – with voice

SECTION B

Speech Work: Preparation

Lip Exercises

• Lip Warm-ups
• Lip Muscularity & Agility
• Lip Consonant Drills

Tongue & Soft Palate Exercises

• Tongue Warm-ups
• Tongue Muscularity & Aerobics
• Tongue Flexibility
• Tongue & Soft Palate Consonant Drills

Speech Work: Application

Articulation & Resonance

• Basic Figure of 8 Pattern
• Consonant Combinations
• Figure of 8 Accents
• Further Sequence & Articulations

SECTION C

Text & Extras

• Taking a Baby ‘f’ for a Walk
• Sailor’s Hornpipe – articulation jingle
• O for a Muse of Fire – physicalised sections
• There is Beauty (The Mikado)
• Poppy Protested – articulation sentence

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