1st Edition
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.
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
Index
Biography
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.
"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
