With ANDREW WADE, FORMER HEAD of VOICE, THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

The Voice Preparation Workshop offers direct, experienced, and artistically stimulating guidance for students of all ages who wish to explore their vocal potential through the principles articulated in the Working Shakespeare series.

In the first part of Andrew Wade's workshop, students are gently eased into the thinking behind each step of what will later form their own routine of exercises. We are taken through a personal journey of discovery through practical observation of the group's progress and thinking.

Exercises address:

• Relaxation
• Resonance
• Muscularity
• Breathing

Students learn how:

• To realize the vocal demands of a specific text
• To explore their verbal potential
• To develop musculature that enhances vocal range and depth
  

While Part One stimulates our curiosity and expands our understanding through the concrete help of close-up shots, screen inserts and computer graphics, Part Two is an invitation to join in, experiment with the work and even practice on a piece of text of our own choosing.

Andrew Wade accompanies the Workshop with his own booklet, offering sympathetic practical advice on how to continue preparation on one's own.

Workshop 5: The Voice, Preparation, Workshop

Shakespeare texts used in exercises are supplied on screen for classroom use as well as in Cicely Berry's teacher's manual.

• Relaxation
  One Finger, One Thumb 0:02:45
  Spine Tapping 0:03:52
  Shoulder, Spine, Neck 0:06:27
• Breathing
  Hands on Partner's Ribs 0:17:00
  Rocking Back 0:21:50
• Resonance
  Humming & Massage 0:28:00
  Sung vs. Spoken Resonance 0:31:35
  Journey & Refueling 0:33:40
  Personal Breath 0:37:30
  Throwing Sung Vowels 0:41:00
• Muscularity
  Vibrating Face & Mouth 0:45:40
  Physicalising Vowels 0:48:30
  Computer-Animated Mouth 0:50:00
  Consonants (P B M, T D N, K G NG) 0:51:55
  Vowels 0:55:36
• Text Applications
  Group Reading (Henry V) 1:00:00
  Voiceless to Whispers to Vowels (Henry V) 1:02:05
  Singing (Henry V) 1:08:00
  Jumping & Gesturing (Henry V) 1:10:42
  A Phrase at a Time (Romeo and Juliet) 1:13:26
  Punctuation & Beyond (Love's Labour's Lost) 1:16:30
• Preparation Sequence
  Sighing Out on Sounds 1:19:45
  Sitting, Standing, Running, Jumping 1:29:46
  Activating Consonants 1:33:00
  Trying on Texts 1:34:38

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