“Everything that happens to you or occurs in your environment affects your breathing.“
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 a physiologically efficient way to breathe for communication and performance. They will also be introduced to the foundational themes of Vāchikā Voicework of breath, resonance, release, alignment, support, articulation. We will work with text, speech-work, and song. You will finish the experience with two practices for enhancing the somatic-vocal relationship that integrate 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.
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.
About Vāchikā Voicework
Vāchikā draws inspiration from the reference to voice as ‘cosmic sound’ in the Nātyashāstra – the classical treatise on Indian aesthetics. The practice of Vāchikā uses the Sanskrit alphabet as a phonetic base and the concept of Rasa as a theoretical underpinning. The phonetic precision of Sanskrit enables speech and dialect work with universal ease. Rasa, through practical engagement with breath, is the gateway to empathy. First developed as batteries of exercises adapted from Yoga, Pranayama, Kalaripayattu and Butoh, the aim is to help performers break unconscious response patterns, access freedom, well-being and spontaneity.
About the Teacher
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 Head of South Asia for Fitzmaurice Institute and an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Mallika has a distinguished career in film, television and theatre including a landmark production of Brian Friel’s Translations and an award-winning solo performance Hidden in Plain Sight. She has starred in seminal films such as Devi Ahilya Bai directed by Nachiket Patwardhan, and Kanooru Heggadathi by Girish Karnad. Her recent film credits include memorable performances in Killer Soup for Netflix and Aspirants Season 2 and 3 on Amazon Prime. She is an alumnus of the National School of Drama (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, at LASALLE, ITI and NAFA in Singapore and at the Fitzmaurice Voice Institute in LA.
Fee
INR 69000/-