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Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. How might mainstream Anglo-American voice training for actors address the needs of students who bring multiple worldviews into the training studio?

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Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in contemporary theatre 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 learned simultaneously, how does this shift the way actors think, talk, and perform? 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, Tara 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 theatre, for those practitioners and scholars interested in performance studies, ethnomusicology, voice studies, and intercultural theories and practices.

Author Biography

Tara McAllister-Viel is Head of Voice and Speech at East 15 Acting School, UK.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Conversations and Methodologies: Embodiment, Interculturalism and Practice-as-Research2. What is the 'natural/free' voice approach?3. What is sngm [] in p'ansori []?4. The Role of Breath in training actors' voices5. The Role of "Presence" in Training Actors' Voices6. Text/Vocal Text: the Role of Voice/Sound and TextConclusion

Review

"Based on years of experience as a professional voice teacher, director, and researcher, this is a timely, essential, and vital reconsideration of voice training from intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives."Phillip Zarrilli (Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group; Emeritus Professor, Exeter University)"Based on years of experience as a professional voice teacher, director, and researcher, this is a timely, essential, and vital reconsideration of voice training from intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives." - Phillip Zarrilli, Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group; Emeritus Professor, Exeter University"McAllister-Viel offers a rich example of how differing cultures of voice training may be productively "interwoven" in a conservatory setting. She has also created a long-needed conversation between the practical work of teaching voice skills and more theoretical explorations of the field. McAllister-Viel's valuable work models a shared vocabulary that will allow more productive conversations and collaborations between theorists and practitioners, thus leading to a richer learning experience for students."- Erika Bailey, Voice and Speech Review"Little has been written about an approach to developing an 'intercultural voice', of ways actors can and should engage with different cultural vocalities and vocalisms, and not sim-ply accents. Training Actors'Voices: Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Approach is thus a timely intervention in ways of critically examining the intercultural body and voice. […] The book sits uniquely between an academic critique, a practitioner's handbook, and a personal recount. […] One can certainly appreciate the importance and urgency of the issues that the author has presented, many of which she has researched and expounded on. The book then marks an important beginning for new conversations about intercultural approaches to voice and actor training today."- Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal, 10.3, 2019

Details ISBN1138088692 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Voice Studies Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138088692 ISBN-13 9781138088696 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Approach DEWEY 792.028 Media Book Pages 218 Publication Date 2018-08-08 Short Title Training Actors' Voices Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-08 AU Release Date 2018-08-08 NZ Release Date 2018-08-08 Author Tara McAllister-Viel Alternative 9781138088689 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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