The first of its kind in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asia Oceania! Come, discover the freedom and power of your voice and transform the way you communicate.
The India 5-day Intensive is an in-person workshop designed to introduce the practice of Fitzmaurice Voicework® for an in-depth experience of voice, breath, and body. It is also suitable for those already familiar with the practice and looking to deepen their engagement.
Dates:
- 12th to 17th August, 2024 (15th August break)
Time:
- 10am – 5pm
Venue:
- Dilip Piramal Art Gallery,
National Centre for Performing Arts,
NCPA Marg, Nariman Point,
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400021
Cost:
- INR 67000/-
Early bird discount:
- INR 54000/- (register before 15th July 11:59pm)
Payment plans and scholarships are available.
Fitzmaurice Institute in-person workshops build hours towards eligibility for teacher certification.
Limited places, which will be reserved on first come first served basis.
About the Workshop
Participants will explore the fundamental techniques of Fitzmaurice Voicework®: Destructuring to widen range of breathing and voice for fuller self-expression, and Restructuring to practice the most physiologically efficient way to breathe for communication and performance. We will also work with text, speech-work, and song. You will finish the experience with a practice for enhancing the somatic-vocal relationship that integrates breath, body, voice and imagination.
You will learn to:
- organically engage body-breath-imagination to speak or sing with a deeper sense of connection and authenticity
- identify habitual body tensions that compromise posture and breathing
- expand your breath, resonance and range
- address issues of vocal health, repair and maintenance for sustainable, long-term voice use
- take quick, easy steps towards nervous system regulation
The workshop will be taught by 3 leading FV teachers in the region, Petrina, Budi and Mallika who bring their specific talents and expertise to the work. They will guide you through this life-affirming work towards communicating with presence power and a sense of play!
About Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Fitzmaurice Voicework® is recognized as the global leader in voice training for performance because of its wide-ranging impact on physical and mental well-being, personal and community empowerment, and its commitment to diversity and inclusion. Through their ongoing development of the work, the Fitzmaurice community of teachers impacts thousands of students and professionals seeking more dynamic, expressive, and powerful voices.
Fitzmaurice Voicework is taught at Yale School of Drama, Harvard University/American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, the University of California-Irvine, and hundreds of other institutions around the world. There are approximately 300 certified Fitzmaurice teachers across six continents.
About the Teachers
PETRINA KOW – I’m a voice, accents and public speaking coach. I help C-suite executives, award-winning actors and professional speakers communicate with authenticity and presence. I work privately with my clients on a range of voice and speech skills and conduct customised group workshops for government agencies, global companies and train actors internationally and locally in universities and institutions. I am the only Singaporean that has been certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework® and Knight Thompson Speechwork®, a comprehensive, integrated voice and speech training program taught in MFAs and top Universities around the world. I started my career in broadcasting as one of the pioneer producers/presenters in Singapore’s first Newsradio station, 938FM, and went on to host on the No. 1 morning show on Class 95FM. Over the last 25 years, I’ve established myself as a top voice-acting talent, having worked with most advertising agencies, international broadcasters and consumer brands. I teach voice and speech at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and Lasalle College of the Arts and have taught at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and University of California Irvine.
Dr. BUDI MILLER is a Lead Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and the Head of Advanced Training at the Fitzmaurice Voice Institute. He is the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Malaysia, China, and Indonesia. He has had the privilege of coaching and inspiring actors in many mediums: Broadway, Marvel Studios, Warner Brothers, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, Hulu, major international film markets and theatres around the world. He has coached film and television roles for Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) and Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country, The Harder They Fall, Antman III [Kang the Conqueror], Creed III, Magazine Dreams), continues to work with Julian Elijah Martinez (Wu-Tang: An American Saga) and the Encompass Collective to provide professional actor training for BIPOC young adults. His research fuses Fitzmaurice Voicework, Western actor training with Balinese Performing Arts Training, rooted in profound artistic and spiritual awakening. He synthesizes voice and actor training to invite the emergence of taksu, a Balinese concept and essence of deep presence and awareness, which can be accessed in film, television, and theatre performance.
MALLIKA PRASAD is a multi-award-winning performer, writer and director. She is the Founder/Creative Director of Actors Ensemble India Forum – a practice-led arts research and theatre company. She is an alumnus of NSD and has an M.A. in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has taught voice and performance at the NSD, NINASM and University of Hyderabad, University of Calicut in India, and at LASALLE, ITI and NAFA in Singapore. She is currently Head of South Asia Region for the Fitzmaurice Institute and an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. She teaches across multiple languages of Hindi, English, Kannada and Tamil. She is on the Curriculum Advisory Board for Psychology and Theatre Studies at St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore. Mallika started directing in 2003. Her production of Brian Friel’s Translations swept three awards at META. Her most recent work, Hidden in Plain Sight – Digital Edition won the Infallibles Awards for Best Show in 2021 at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has starred in seminal films such as ‘Devi’ Ahilya Bai directed by Nachiket Patwardhan, and Kanooru Heggadathi which won the National Award for Best film in Kannada in 1999. Most recently she has acted in Anurag Kashyap’s feature film – Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohobbat, Abhishek Chaubey’s webseries – Killer Soup for Netflix and Aspirants Season 2 on Amazon Prime. With over two decades of experience as performer/educator/actor trainer, she has developed Vāchikā – a uniquely Indian voice training practice for the contemporary performer. Vāchikā uses the Sanskrit alphabet as the phonetic base for speech and dialect work and Rasa as its theoretical underpinning and gateway to empathy.