The Acting Through Song Toolkit: a 3-part course
Wednesday 22nd January 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (London Time)
Do you work with students who struggle to connect their acting skills with their singing skills? Are your students currently auditioning for professional work, drama schools or entering competitions? Perhaps you are a singing teacher needing to work on performance, but you don’t have a background in acting.
This course is designed for teachers working with singers or singing actors who need to draw the story from their performance. On this three-part course, you’ll gain a practical understanding of how to apply techniques from acting pedagogy, emotion research, and text-based practice that will build your students’ sense of character and storytelling. On this collaborative course, we will explore different perspectives, discuss the theory and add plenty of exercises and top tips to your teaching toolkit.
Session one:
Wednesday January 8th 11am-12:30pm
Building a character: what do we have in the current methodologies for singing actors? We know there are plenty of techniques for building character and story in spoken voice practice, but what do we need to adjust and add for singers?
Session two:
Wednesday 15th January 11am-12:30pm
Voice and emotion: how do we hear emotion as listeners? How do we convey emotion as speakers and singers? I bring my research on vocal qualities of emotion to you in practical terms for singing teachers. We discuss emotional layering and how we might be able to balance emotion and vocal technique.
Session three:
Wednesday 22nd January 11am-12:30pm
A text-based approach to ATS: How can we use operative words, meaningful punctuation, and harvest the poetry from the lyric? We discuss exercises and techniques for working with singers who need to spend more time with the text.
🏷️ Price £100 (UK VAT inclusive)
🎥 Recording automatically sent to all who book (even if you cannot attend live)
▶️ Rewatch as many times as you like
📜 Certificate of attendance available
Louisa Morgan
Louisa Morgan is a lecturer, voice teacher and researcher, with a special focus on spoken and sung emotion. Louisa lectures with Voice Study Centre (spoken voice lead). Previously, Louisa taught technical singing for the MA/MFA Musical Theatre students at the Guilford School of Acting (GSA) and Italia Conti, and she was also a spoken and singing voice coach for the Acting students at the Cygnet Training Theatre.
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