get to know your voice
The Voice Work-get to know your voice
is a place for discussions related to voice practices for performance. Listen to conversations with voice teachers from Canada, Netherlands, USA, UK, and France. It has been an immense pleasure to explore ideas with these intelligent and sensitive humans.
Have a listen here
Guests
Jane MacFarlane
Jane is a voice coach and teacher who lives in Calgary, Alberta. She teaches voice and acting at the University of Calgary, is the Resident Voice coach for Theatre Calgary, the Voice & Dialect consultant for Vertigo Theatre and the Voice & Text coach for The Shakespeare Company. Along with her theatre work, she teaches the techniques to anyone who wants to feel stronger and more confident in their voice and presence.
Find out more about Jane here: https://www.voiceactivated.ca/
Lisa Sokolov
Lisa Sokolov is an internationally acclaimed singer, composer and teacher known for her adventurous work. A long time professor at New
York University Tisch School of the Arts, Sokolov’s recordings have won wide press acclaim. Her work is a mix of improvisation, jazz, soul and sacred music.
She’s newly published a book called Embodied VoiceWork; Beyond Singing. It’s a theoretical practical and poetic introduction to the practice of Embodied VoiceWork (EVW), an improvisational method originated by singer/composer, professor and vocal music therapy pioneer Lisa Sokolov. This work has been applied in music therapy practice, arts education and human potential work.
For more info visit lisasokolov.com or embodiedvoicework.com
You can order the book at:
https://www.barcelonapublishers.com/Embodied-VoiceWork-Beyond-Singing
Zwaan de Vries
Zwaantje de Vries studied Pedagogy, Visual Arts, Drama and Dansexpressie, and had her own avant-garde dance company ‘Zwaantje & Jaap Kleyn’ in Amsterdam. She has performed and exhibited in the Netherlands, Germany and France. She has been a guest drama and Dansexpressie teacher at several Universities and other Institutes in the Netherlands and Germany. She performs with other artists in acoustic ‘Sound-scapes’ (‘Pre-Poets’ and ‘Genetic Choir’), and develops multi-disciplinary improvisations. She teaches groups and individuals and is guest voice teacher at the Artez Institute of Arts, Arnhem and at De Lindenberg Art Institute, Nijmegen.
Marguerite Witvoet
Marguerite Witvoet has been active as a vocal coach, music director and performer for over 25 years. In her individual and group sessions (now offered online) at Awakening Voice, Marguerite helps emerging students and advanced vocal sojourners alike to find their voice, sing their song and become themselves. She is also currently becoming certified as a Feminine Power coach, facilitator and leader, and will soon be offering opportunities for women to reimagine and reinvent their lives.
www.awakeningvoice.ca
Carol Mendelsohn
Carol Mendelsohn was born in the United States; her parents were German Jews who found refuge in the U.S. Looking for her Jewish identity while living in Israel, she met the Roy Hart Theatre and soon moved to France to continue the work. Theatre is her passion along with the training of new Roy Hart Theatre Voice teachers. She has lived and worked at Malérargues for 33 years.
“I believe that the voice work gives students the possibility to discover their authentic voices. In connecting the body and the voice, I feel that a self-awareness develops that gives life a fuller expression. An awareness of self gives a better awareness of others and fosters relationships of a profound nature.”
Saule Ryan
Saule Ryan met Roy Hart and the Roy Hart Theatre in London in 1970 while still a student of photography. He was so ‘bowled over’, not only by the power and range of their voices but also by what he perceived as a deep commitment to both their own personal development and to that of their colleagues, that he soon joined the company and started to receive voice lessons. He quickly found himself rehearsing and performing in some of the very experimental pieces that the Company put on in London up until its move to France in 1974-75, and he went on to perform in many Roy Hart Theatre productions throughout the ’70s and ’80s. In the 1980s Saule studied movement with the dancer Dominique Dupuy and mime artists Claire Heggen and Yves Marc, and took part in two theatrical creations combining voice and movement, under the direction of Enrique Pardo. He began teaching in 1977, first in Europe and then in the USA where he continues to teach regularly on different university theatre courses. He is currently performing in an original piece called ‘Generation’.
Alana Hawley Purvis
Alana is an actor, vocal coach, and educator who has worked with institutions across North and Central America including: Bard on the Beach, The Stratford Festival, Douglas College, On the Mic, LGBTQ+ Wellness Centre, University of Alberta, the Citadel Banff Professional Program, Arts Umbrella, The Speech Studio and Es Artes!. She is a graduate of the Academy for Classical Acting (MFA) and The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training at The Stratford Festival. She has performed with various theatre companies including: Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, and Theatre Calgary, and Alberta Theatre Playhouse.
Mikal Grant
Mikal is a successful Vocal Coach, Audition prep Coach, Educator and Administrator with over twenty years teaching experience in diverse international classroom environments. As an Education Manager, Mikal has been successful creating acting, voice and movement curriculums, motivating dynamic teaching teams and inspiring students. Trained as an actor at Langara’s Studio 58, Mikal has years of experience acting and singing on stage, television and film in Canada, Japan and China. His latest project, a Chinese TV series called Dreamland of Ocean, is slated for release in June of 2020. Mikal is now enjoying working at OnThe Mic Training school in Gastown training actors about vocal and physical warmups.
““Don’t ask what the world needs, Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.””