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GIVING VOICE 11 - KRISTIN LINKLATER (USA) [April 2009]
FREEING THE NATURAL VOICE
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THREE DAY WORKSHOP
MONDAY 20 – WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL
One of the world’s leading voice practitioners, the celebrated author of Freeing the Natural Voice, and an associate of Giving Voice since its inception, Kristin returns to Giving Voice to offer actors and singers her unique method of voice training and discovery: a method which aims to develop a voice that is resonant, clear and responsive to impulse and emotion, connecting the performer to their inner self and allowing the outward expression of that self. Kristin’s work aims to reconnect speaking with the performer’s impulsive centre. Emphasis is placed on freedom and release rather than control, freeing the voice to follow the performer’s intuition and imagination. (Note: Kristin’s workshops for Giving Voice are hugely popular and always over-subscribed and we therefore advise early booking to ensure a place.)
The workshop will cover the arc of the work described in Kristin’s book Freeing the Natural Voice:‘We will begin with physical awareness and awareness of natural breathing rhythms, and finding the connection between impulse, breath and sound we will expand the experience of vibrations in the body.Then we will find ways to free the channel from habitual tensions (soft palate, jaw, tongue) and to explore the resonating ladder (chest, mouth, teeth, sinus, nose, skull) so that the whole range of voice is available.The aim of the work is to free the voice from habitual tensions that inhibit its natural ability to express through 3 to 4 octaves of speaking notes the full range of emotions and all the subtleties and nuances of thought.While most of the work will focus on pure wordless voice, participants are asked to bring a lullaby and a nursery rhyme to use as "text."’
KRISTIN LINKLATER is currently head of acting for Columbia University’s graduate professional actor-training programme. She has taught voice, text and Shakespeare in the United States since 1963, at New York University, Emerson College, the Stratford Festival, Ontario, the Guthrie Theatre and for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA.She has worked with experimental and classical theatre directors from Joseph Chaikin to Peter Brook and Tyrone Guthrie. She has been the artistic director of her own Company of Women dedicated to changing the harmonics of Shakespeare within the cathedral of the culture. Her book Freeing the Natural Voice (pub. 1976) has sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into German and Russian.The revised and expanded edition was published November 2006 and is being currently translated into French, Korean, Spanish, Italian and Finnish. Her second book Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice: An Actor’s Guide to Talking the Text was published in 1992. She teaches in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland,Australia and the UK. She is also an actress.
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