Actors, Performers and Singers

The work is designed to give actors and singers the opportunity to contact and express their individual authenticity through the innate power of the voice, enabling them to bring a sense of integrity, groundedness, presence and gravitas to their work.

It does this by means of a series of vocal release exercises which invite the voice to resonate in the main energy centres of the body. This intense resonance contacts deeply held tensions in the physical and emotional body, enabling their release and expression through vocalisation. During the process, participants begin the "feel" the voice from the inside and come to realise that sounds can come from a much deeper place than is normally the case. the work can also contact strong emotions and participants are encouraged to give voice to these feelings and express them fully. This process facilitates a deeper understanding of performers' own individual personalities and potential as they become grounded in their own authenticity.

Links are also explored between voice, imagination and the unconscious, between past and present experience and betwen voice and body. Participants come to attain a degree of "presence" in their work which enhances the sense of truth and dynamism they bring to it. They also have the opportunity to explore the value of developing experiences from "process" through to performance.

There is an emphasis on dynamic interaction and improvisation both with and without text as well as the introduction of other art forms.

Although any of the group and individual work outlined here will be of great benefit, I will also be running some workshops at The Actors Centre in London in the Autumn.