1st Edition

Stage Performance for Singers A Practical Course in 12 Basic Steps 

By Martin Karnolsky Copyright 2019
142 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

142 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

There are about ten books in the world on stage performance training. Most of them are in English, but there are a few in Spanish. There are none in Russian, although the father of modern theater, Konstantin Stanislavski, was born in Russia. In singing, regardless of genre and style, the element of stage performance is missing. There is no normal training for communicating with the... Read more

1. Preparation and Beginning of Performance  2. Stage Space Split  3. Body Position and Communication with the Audience  4. Using the Microphone  5. Gestures  6. The Look  7. The Phrase in the Gesture and the Look  8. Working with Lyrics  9. Artistry in the Voice  10. The Costume  11. Makeup and Hairstyles  12. The Bow and Leaving the Stage

Biography

Martin Karnolsky was born in Bulgaria in 1969. He has a bachelor’s in music pedagogy, a master’s in marketing and a PhD in theatre arts and theatre science. Working for more than 25 years in show business, Dr. Karnolsky has built his own system of education in stage performance based on the theatre theories of Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Chekhov, as well as on the works on body language by Joe Navarro, Allan Pease and Desmond Morris. In the last 20 years, he has conducted master classes and workshops in more than 20 countries, including Singapore, Vietnam, Israel, Russia, Romania, Italy, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia. Dr. Karnolsky speaks five languages and gives lectures in universities and colleges of arts across Singapore, Russia and Bulgaria.