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How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one? Christina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to create an integrated and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors - the acting approach widely taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world. The authors create a step-by-step guide to explore how voice can: respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and will fully express language in content and form communicate imaginary circumstances and human experience transform to adapt to different roles connect to a variety of audiences and spacesFeaturing over fifty illustrations by German artist Dany Heck, Voice i Acting is an essential manual for the actor seeking full vocal identity in characterization, and for the voice teacher open to new techniques, or an alternative approach, to harmonize with the actor's process.
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AcknowledgementsForewordList of illustrationsIntroductionPART ONE LAYING THE FOUNDATIONSIntroductionChapter 1 The organic acting approach and the voiceChapter 2 The organic acting approach and the brainPART TWO THE ESSENTIAL VOCAL SIX - AND INTEGRATING ACTING INTO VOICEIntroductionChapter 3 Alignment - backbone of the actionChapter 4 Breath - the great creative connectorChapter 5 Centred onset of sound - the vocal identity of the actorChapter 6 Pitch range - the music of meaningChapter 7 Resonance - vibrating the experienceChapter 8 Articulation - shaping thought and actionPART THREE INTEGRATING VOICE INTO THE ORGANIC ACTING PROCESSIntroductionChapter 9 Interval - receiving and respondingChapter 10 Awareness, ease and focusChapter 11 The action - given circumstances, interaction and objectivesChapter 12 Seeing, sensing and feelingChapter 13 Character voiceChapter 14 The actor in the spacePART FOUR INTEGRATING VOICE IN REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE - PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHERIntroductionChapter 15 Meeting the play and the characterChapter 16 From impulse to actionChapter 17 From action to formConclusionSelected bibliographyAbout the authorsIndexPermissions
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Voice into Acting is an inspiring, comprehensive, and accessible guide to voice training, acting techniques, and body awareness for actors and performers .. It is a rich resource for teachers and students, and for established actors wishing to refresh or revisit their training or get out of bad habits. It is excellent: a challenging and insightfully presented series of methodologies that demands an intellectual, instinctive, and physical understanding of the acting process. Naomi Paxton New Theatre Quarterly
