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About this book
Fitzmaurice Voicework: Embodying the Holistic Voice is the ultimate guide to a world-renowned voice approach for discovering and developing the voice's full expressive potential and healthy use.
Catherine Fitzmaurice, the originator of the Fitzmaurice Voicework approach, and Michael Morgan bring together over 60 years of original, class-tested exercises and concepts. Detailed instructions, anecdotes, and visuals are used to create an immersive, student-centered learning experience. The book rethinks short- and long-term tensions, mental barriers, and stage fright, providing self-empowering and compassionate ways to enhance vocal abilities for clearer communication, more vocal variety, and meeting vocal performance demands. The authors describe a voice technology that holistically strengthens the speaker's ability to synthesize sensations, emotions, and reflexes with mental decisions. This is done through exercises that elicit the power of the autonomic and central nervous systems through a multi-layered integrative mind/body/breath approach and introducing the innovative Destructuring/Restructuring process. Fitzmaurice Voicework is about creating meaning that considers one's entire humanity.
Acting students and voice teachers will find this insightful and unique volume to be an invaluable resource. It also helps actors, voiceover artists, singers, public speakers, and anybody else develop their expressive and communication skills. It's for people who desire to speak more clearly, spontaneously, authentically, and decisively.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Micha Espinosa
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A List of Some Abbreviations
- Definitions of Basic Fitzmaurice Voicework Terms
- Prologue by Catherine Fitzmaurice
- Introduction by Michael Morgan
- 1 The Nervous System, Stage Fright, and Talent
- 2 Destructuring Positions and Rests Lying on Your Back
- 3 Destructuring Draping Positions and Rests
- 4 Destructuring Positions on Your Feet and Additional Guidance to Tremor Positions and Tremoring
- 5 Sequencing Dynamic Efforts and Cusp Exercises
- 6 A Bit More Anatomy with Touch
- 7 Structuring and Restructuring Exercises
- 8 Other Destructuring Modalities: Touch, Energy Systems, Chakras, and Qi
- 9 Bridging Destructuring to Restructuring in Partnership
- 10 Destructuring Partnerships: Touch
- 11 Restructuring Applications
- 12 Restructuring Partnerships
- Epilogue by Catherine Fitzmaurice
- Index