Voice into Acting

Voice into Acting focuses, not simply on voice as a skill or ways to approach text, but on how to integrate voice into acting process and performance. How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, and integrate fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make [...]
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Voice into Acting focuses, not simply on voice as a skill or ways to approach text, but on how to integrate voice into acting process and performance. How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, and integrate fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one? Christina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to bring the two together in a unified and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors - the approach taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world and which draws on natural human experience in the creation of a role. The authors create a step-by-step guide to vocal production and the integration of vocal elements into a clearly laid out acting approach, and explore how voice can: . respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and will . fully express language in content and form . communicate imaginary circumstances and human experience . transform to adapt to different roles . connect to a variety of audiences and spaces.Featuring over fifty illustrations of vocal anatomy and exercises by German artist, Dany Heck, Voice into Acting is an essential manual for the actor, promoting full vocal identity in characterisation; and for the voice teacher, offering new techniques, or an alternative approach, to harmonise with the actor's process.