Training actors' voices : towards an intercultural/interdisciplinary approach /
Contemporary actor training in the United States and United Kingdom has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in contemporary theater practices and the rise of the intercultural actor has meant that actor training today has been shaped by mul...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge voice studies series.
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| Summary: | Contemporary actor training in the United States and United Kingdom has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in contemporary theater practices and the rise of the intercultural actor has meant that actor training today has been shaped by multiple modes of training and differing worldviews. How might mainstream Anglo-American voice training for actors address the needs of students who bring multiple worldviews into the training studio? When several vocal training traditions are leaned simultaneously, how does this shift the way actors think, talk and train the voice? How does this change the way actors understand what a voice is? What it can/should do? How it can/should do it? Using adaptations of a traditional Korean vocal art, p'ansori, with adaptations of the 'natural' or 'free' voice approach, McAllister-Viel offers an alternative approach to training actors' voices by (re)considering the materials of training, breath, sound, 'presence' and text. This work contributes to ongoing discussions about the future of voice pedagogy in theater, for those practitioners and scholars interested in performance studies, ethnomusicology, voice studies and intercultural theories and practices. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 218 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138088689 1138088684 9781138088696 1138088692 |