Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond

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CONTENTS
List of figures
List of online material
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword: A phonotechnics of vocal somaticity: An autobiophonic note
Konstantinos Thomaidis
Introduction: Somatic voice studies
Christina Kapadocha
Part I Vocalities in somatic studies
1 Three somatic processes to voice through movement: Breath, exploration, imagery
Barbara Sellers-Young
2 Awakening grace: Embodied awareness in vocal training
Andrea Olsen
3 Never just the body: Etudes between voice and dance
Sondra Fraleigh
4 On Voice Movement Integration (VMI) practice by Patricia Bardi: Awakening resonance in
the moving body
Patricia Bardi interviewed by Christina Kapadocha
Part II Voicework, somatics and the diverse self
5 In front of me: Fitzmaurice Voicework (R) as transformative practice
Ellen Foyn Bruun
6 Somatic training and resources for body-mind-voice integration: When stage fright "comes to
visit"
Leticia Santafe and Pablo Troccoli
7 Voicing with awareness: An introduction to the Feldenkrais method
Stephen Paparo
8 My body is a map, my voice is the path: (Trans)racialized somaticities and Roy Hart voice
work
Amy Mihyang Ginther
Part III Vocal and somatic listening in training
9 (Re)considering the role of touch in "re-educating" actors' body/voice
Tara McAllister-Viel
10 Organic voice: Vocal integration through actor training
Christina Gutekunst
11 Dreaming voice: A dialogue
Ilona Krawczyk and Ben Spatz
12 Somatic logos in physiovocal actor training and beyond
Christina Kapadocha
Part IV Beyond the somatic in performance research
13 Mapping the burden of vocality: French seventeenth-century vocal lamentations,
Japanese meditation and somatic intra-action
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano
14 Intensive interaction: A lesson on queered voicing from children with learning disAbilities
Yvon Bonenfant
15 Vocal resonance and the politics of intercorporeality
Anita Chari
16 The somaesthetic in-between: Six statements on vocality, listening and embodiment
Ben Macpherson
Part V Beyond this book
17 Beyond our somatic voices
Christina Kapadocha
Index

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Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond brings together a community of international practitioner-researchers who explore voice through soma or soma through voice. Somatic methodologies offer research processes within a new area of vocal, somatic and performance praxis. Voice work and theoretical ideas emerge from dance, acting and performance training while they also move beyond commonly recognized somatics and performance processes. From philosophies and pedagogies to ethnic-racial and queer studies, this collection advances embodied aspects of voices, the multidisciplinary potentialities of somatic studies, vocal diversity and inclusion, somatic modes of sounding, listening and writing voice.

Methodologies that can be found in this collection draw on:

eastern traditions
body psychotherapy-somatic psychology
Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method
Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering, Continuum Movement, Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy
Fitzmaurice Voicework, Linklater Technique, Roy Hart Method
post-Stanislavski and post-Grotowski actor-training traditions
somaesthetics

The volume also includes contributions by the founders of:

Shin Somatics, Body and Earth, Voice Movement Integration
SOMart, Somatic Acting Process

This book is a polyphonic and multimodal compilation of experiential invitations to each reader’s own somatic voice. It culminates with the "voices" of contributing participants to a praxical symposium at East 15 Acting School in London (July 19–20, 2019). It fills a significant gap for scholars in the fields of voice studies, theatre studies, somatic studies, artistic research and pedagogy. It is also a vital read for graduate students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.

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