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Introduction: How to Use This Book | |
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Getting to Know Your Voice | |
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Sign In | |
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The Voice Speaks | |
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The Name Game | |
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Tell Me About the Time You ... | |
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Stretching, Centering, Releasing, and Aligning | |
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Neck Stretches | |
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Rest Position | |
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Side Stretches at the Barre | |
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Advanced Triangle Pose | |
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Balance and Alignment Using the Wall | |
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Twelve-Step Program for Release of Neck, Jaws, and Shoulders | |
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Tennis Ball Torture | |
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Breathing and Supporting | |
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Breath Exercise | |
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Breath Journal | |
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Gentle-Warm Up for Breath and Body | |
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Legs on the Chair Breathing Exercise | |
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The "Hey!" Breath Exercise | |
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Straw Work | |
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Breath Flow | |
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Awareness in the Sitting Position | |
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Resonating | |
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Defining the Vowel Space: The Front/Back Glide and Open/Close Slide | |
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Throat and Neck Release on Sound | |
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Combining Nasal Resonance with Creative Impulse | |
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Healing Touch | |
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Giving Voice to Your Hunger | |
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Gliding and Sliding | |
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To Glottalize or Not to Glottalize | |
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The Wailing Routine | |
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Honing the Toning | |
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Hum and Chew--Versions One and Two | |
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Improvisation from Primitive Sound | |
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Vocal Mirrors | |
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Woo Woe | |
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The "Ha:" | |
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The Wizard of Oz | |
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Articulating | |
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The Medial [t] | |
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Tongue on the Wet Part of the Lower Lip | |
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Consonant Conga | |
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The Joshua Steele Exercise | |
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Quick Articulator Warm-Up | |
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Moving Sound | |
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Exploring Pitch | |
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Inflection Exercise | |
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Pitch Stretching | |
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The Anaconda | |
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Sirens | |
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Singing Exercise for Line Melody | |
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Projecting and Calling | |
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I Can't Hear You | |
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The Speaker Exercise | |
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The "Mommy" Exercise | |
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Integrating Voice, Breath, and Text | |
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The Deal and the Truth | |
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Dueling Choruses | |
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Painting the Text | |
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The Voice Outdoors | |
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Building a Wall | |
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The Glove Game | |
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The "Stupid!" Exercise | |
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The Conduit | |
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Breathing Out the End of the Thought Phrase | |
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Key Word Ball Toss | |
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Listening/Breathing Transition to Text | |
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Lessac's Consonant Orchestra Scenes | |
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Act Every Word | |
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Core Belief Exercise | |
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Integrating Voice and Movement | |
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Gossip Hoeing | |
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Voice Leading the Body | |
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Connections | |
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Jog and Sound | |
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Elephant Walking Chant | |
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Chewing Gum Bubble | |
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Across the Floor | |
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Emotional Flow | |
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Exploring Character Voices and Dialects | |
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The Mendlshon Twins Exercise | |
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Developing Harmonic Timbre Through the Animal Matrix | |
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The Portrait Project | |
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Boxer-Briefs | |
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List of Contributors and Exercises | |
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CD Track Listing | |
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Biographies | |