Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond

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.

List of 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® as transformative practice, Ellen Foyn Bruun; 6 Somatic training and resources for body-mind-voice integration: When stage fright "comes to visit", Leticia Santafé 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

About the author

Christina Kapadocha (PhD) is a Lecturer in Theatre and Movement at East 15 Acting School. She is a London-based theatre and somatic practitioner-researcher and founder of Somatic Acting Process®. Her current practice research and publications introduce new discussions on the somatic in theatre and performance studies.

Summary

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.

Report

"Traditional voice and somatic boundaries are challenged in this diverse and inclusive collection of interdisciplinary essays edited by Christina Kapadocha. As a collection, it focuses on voice research explored through performance and practice with a few chapters guiding broader pedagogical concerns. This collection, embracing both theory and praxis from an academic perspective, will likely be of interest to graduate students, researchers, teachers, philosophers, and anyone seeking to explore established and emerging somatic methodologies integrating voice." -Michele Capalbo, Voice and Speech Review

Product details

• Authors: Christina Kapadocha
• Assisted by: Christina Kapadocha (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780367562618
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56261-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Routledge Voice Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Music, MUSIC / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Theatre Studies, Acting techniques