VSI is delighted to be able to share with you a collection of papers from Accredited Teacher, Emeritus Professor and former Head of Research and the Centre for Voice in Performance of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Ros Steen.
Ros has been a Voice Practitioner for over 35 years and has studied and worked with Nadine George since they met in 1990. Trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD) and the University of Glasgow, Ros pioneered the use of Nadine George voice work as a medium of rehearsal in professional theatre in Scotland and was responsible for introducing and establishing the work as a core language of the Scottish theatrical landscape. The work forged a new role for the voice specialist in productions, that of Voice Director.
These papers give a fascinating insight into Ros’s work with the Nadine George Voice Work and the voice in training and theatrical contexts.
Click on the links below to download a copy of each paper.
Helena, Hitler and the Heartland : Ros Steen, pp 43 -58 originally published in Shakespeare Around the Globe and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training presented by the Voice and Speech Review, Mandy Rees,ed, Cincinnati, OH: Voice and Speech Trainers Assoc., Inc., 2005, ISBN 0-9773876-0-7 Used with permission.
Teaching Voice in the New Millennium :Introduction to the Day : Keynote address. Published in The Contemporary Voice: How We Teach Voice in the New Millennium ed Bruce Wooding, 2006. Central School of Speech and Drama.
Seein Oursels as Ithers See Us by Ros Steen, originally published pp 281 -290 in Voice and Gender and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training presented by the Voice and Speech Review, Mandy Rees , ed, Cincinnati, OH: Voice and Speech Trainers Assoc., Inc., 2007, ISBN 978-0-9773876-1-8 Used with permission.
Double-hinged Doors : The RSAMD’s voice work in Training and Theatre, LIPA conference, 2008, Ros Steen and Bill Wright
What We May Be : the integration of Lecoq Movement and George voice work at the RSAMD, Ros Steen and Joyce Deans, pp 46-62 in The Moving Voice, the Integration of Voice and Movement Studies presented by the Voice and Speech Review, Rena Cook, ed, Voice and Speech Trainers Assoc., Inc., 2009, ISBN 978-1-934269-55-8; Used with permission
Earthing the Electric by Ros Steen is published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Vol 3 (3) 2012, Routledge.