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GIVING VOICE - FRANKIE ARMSTONG (UK) AND JANET B.RODGERS (USA) [April 2008]
BREATH, VOICE, CHARACTER AND SONG
  
TWO DAY WORKSHOP
MONDAY 31 MARCH – TUESDAY 1 APRIL
In this two day workshop, we will be working for four hours each day exploring the central impact of breath on rhythm, sound, song, character and archetypal expression. Each session will begin with an OxyRhythm exploration. The OxyRhythm exercises, developed by Janet Rodgers, combine breath, rhythm changes and body movements to stretch breath capacity, release excess body tension and focus the mind while expanding the actor/singer's intuitive response to breath/voice needs. Frankie will then lead us into joyful explorations of voice. Breath is at the core of both vibration and expression. We will play from pure breath to sound, discover a kaleidoscope of timbres and see how breath affects song interpretation and characterization. The Archetypes will be used as one exciting way of exploring breath into vocal quality. The workshop is suitable for all experience levels.
Frankie Armstrong has been singing professionally since 1964. In 1975 she began her pioneering Voice Workshops based on ethnic styles of singing- where singing is as natural as speaking. She has sung and run workshops all over Europe as well as in North America and Australia working with community groups, theatre companies and in every kind of setting from hospitals to the National Theatre Studio in London. She has made ten solo albums, written her autobiography, AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SING, and edited a collection of essays, WELL TUNED WOMEN, with Jenny Pearson. She has also contributed chapters to eleven other publications. For more information see: www.frankiearmstrong.com.
Janet B.Rodgers: Past President of VASTA, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, has taught in both the United States and Europe and was a Fulbright Scholar to Romania in 2004-2005 where she taught at both Lucian Blaga and Babes Bolyai Universities. She is currently the Head of Performance as well as Head of the Graduate Pedagogy Program in Voice and Speech Training at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Her work has been significantly influenced by her theatre explorations and teaching in Eastern Europe as well as her eclectic background in more western traditions of voice training. Her book which documents the oral tradition of voice and speech training, THE COMPLETE VOICE AND SPEECH WORKOUT, is published by Applause Books. She is currently on writing leave in Greece and co-writing a book about Acting with Archetypes with Frankie Armstrong.
Festival Tickets
1 DAY £65 (£45 unwaged)
2 DAYS £125 (£85 unwaged)
3 DAYS £185 (£125 unwaged)
FULL FESTIVAL TICKETS: £300 (£200 unwaged)
Full Festival Ticket includes all events, and is valid from the evening of Thursday 27 March to 4pm on Tuesday 1 April,3 Day, 2 Day and 1 Day Tickets include access to your workshop, the performance the evening before and the talk or lecture-demonstration either the day before or following on from the workshop - you choose.
Each ‘Festival Day’ begins at 9.30am. You can choose from a range of different workshops, but note that the workshops are for one, two, three or five days and you need to book for the total duration of the workshop course you have chosen. The workshops will run from 9.30am, with a break for lunch, until 3.30pm. The day continues with presentations between 4pm and 5.30pm, more presentations between 7pm and evening performances from 8.30pm.
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