Expressive Voice - Approaches and Processes for working towards a Vocal Theatre.
a personal journey for artistic purposes
An introductory one day workshop with Bernadette O’Brien
Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Venue: Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Lamorbey Park, Sidcup, Kent. DA15 9DF
Cost: £50.00
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‘Finding’ our voice can seem elusive. Sometimes we may seek to ‘perfect’ or ‘control’ it, and in so doing, limit its capabilities. This workshop allows us to uncover and make connections with our true voice, one that ‘fits’ and expresses our innate, essential selves. Here we can discover what this might mean for our own personal journeys and for artistic endeavour.
Using a creative and open, process-based framework, you will have the opportunity to explore the full potential and range of your voice. Exploring the voice through movement and grounding it within the body, the work takes us on a vocal and imaginal journey, evoking our more subtle, archetypal and mythical selves. Feeling into image, shape and texture, voice becomes gesture, evoking atmosphere, landscape and narrative - a vocal theatre is released and hidden voices emerge, provoking a whole new panorama of sound.
During the course of the day you will:
- engage with voice and body awareness practices;
- make connections between breath, movement, voice and imagination;
- follow your own individual voice movement journeys;
- co-create group improvisations;
Open to actors, voice practitioners, singers, dancers, teachers and all those interested in the use of voice for self-discovery and artistic application.
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Bernadette O’Brien brings together twenty five years experience and research into voice and theatre practice, gained through her work as an actor, director, teacher and therapist. She originally trained at Rose Bruford College where she now teaches Expressive Voice on the European Theatre Arts course. Her emphasis is on uncovering the ‘whole’ original voice, finding a new vocal language for the theatre and exploring ways of using the expressive voice as an integral part of theatre making. She draws from her training in Voice Movement Therapy, a system inspired by the pioneering work of Alfred Wolfsohn and the subsequent development of the Roy Hart Theatre. Bernadette also draws on the lineage of European vocal pedagogy and practice including Artaud, Grotowski, Staniewski, and Eugenio Barba. For further info see www.integralvoice.co.uk Bernadette is also a Core Process Psychotherapist in private practice.