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VSI workshops: 2020 Programme update

It is with great sadness that we have had to postpone our summer workshop programme in light of the current situation with the COVID 19 pandemic.We are developing opportunities to work online with Nadine and our accredited teachers so please do get in touch via our contact page if you would like to be contacted about this when the times comes.

As soon as we are able to we will be back up and running with our face to face workshops but in the meantime stay safe and keep breathing!

vsiadmin2020-05-26T15:51:01+01:00May 26th, 2020|

Breath work and Four Voice Qualities practice sheet

Download our practice sheet here to help you work through the breath work and Four Voice Qualities at home.

vsiadmin2020-05-12T08:36:17+01:00May 12th, 2020|

Next year’s words await another voice’: British Sign Language and voice work with D/deaf actors at the RCS

Accredited NGVW teacher Mel Drake introduces her work with D/deaf actors on the BA Performance course at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Download a copy of Mel’s essai here

Essai recently published in: Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2019 What is new in voice training? Volume 10, No. 3, 448 – 454

Publication by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

vsiadmin2020-05-12T09:58:02+01:00May 12th, 2020|

Mel Drake introduces her work with D/deaf actors on the BA Performance course at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Next year’s words await another voice’: British Sign Language and voice work with D/deaf actors at the RCS.

Download a copy of Mel’s essai here

Essai recently published in: Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2019 What is new in voice training? Volume 10, No. 3, 448 – 454

Publication by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

vsiadmin2020-05-12T10:00:09+01:00May 11th, 2020|

The importance of breath in lockdown life…

As we all find ourselves temporarily living a very different life in lockdown we must remember the importance and power of the breath. Remember we can use the technique in our every day life to help centre us in these challenging times. Please visit our resources page for some practical guidance on using the technique at home.

vsiadmin2020-04-26T22:58:11+01:00April 26th, 2020|

Ros Steen works with visual/digital artist Màiri Lafferty to release vocal authenticity in the experimental film ‘Tongues’

Tongues is an experimental film directed by visual/digital artist Màiri Lafferty and supported by a Morton Award from the Royal Scottish Academy. It is about glossolalia or speaking in tongues and is based on Lafferty’s childhood experience of the Pentecostal movement in the US and Scotland. It was filmed at Basic Mountain, Edinburgh in June 2019 and documented by Holly Yeomen in her text Polyphonic Representation.

Tongues comprises four workshopped Acts designed to create a secular environment to practice glossolalia led by Ros Steen, accredited teacher of NGVW, and Layla Brown, a classically trained singer specialising in improvisation. The band of artists Fallopé & the Tubes – Sarah Messenger, Ruby Pester, Nadia Rossi, Rachel Walker, Catherine Weir, & guest Rosslyn Oman – participate in these Acts whereby Steen and Brown use radical pedagogical vocal techniques, including Nadine George Voice Work with its roots in the pioneering research of Alfred Wolfsohn, to enable the group to release ‘their authentic, magnetically haunting sound, a voice relation of Wolfsohn’s dying souls’. [Holly Yeoman.] Text spoken was drawn from A.L.Kennedy’s essay Proof of Life ( published in ‘On Writing’, Jonatahn Cape 2013) as well as vocal deconstructions of the participants names.

Before filming, Màiri experienced Nadine George Voice Work in a lesson with Ros to understand the work from her own embodiment of it. In an e mail subsequently she wrote the session

has transformed the film itself – originally fundamentally visual – into something far more performative…. it is the process of the film that is the most important thing…how can I create the best space for it? How can I create a safe and generous space for a group of women to engage with their own energy – to begin to understand its force and power, and harness it to vocalise something that they otherwise cannot articulate?’

Both film and Yeoman’s text are currently available here :

https://mapmagazine.co.uk/tongues

vsiadmin2020-04-20T21:52:16+01:00April 20th, 2020|

A Collection of Papers by Ros Steen

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.

vsiadmin2020-06-10T10:16:28+01:00April 1st, 2020|

Accredited teacher Laurent Courtin publishes his thesis: Vocal Coaching “Inner Echoes”

Through his experience of NGVW and his own applied methods Laurent explores the power of vocal work in the coaching context.

Download full thesis HERE

Laurent Courtin Website

vsiadmin2020-02-18T12:29:03+00:00February 18th, 2020|

Vocal Coaching “Inner Echoes”

Accredited teacher Laurent Courtin publishes his thesis on the challenges and power of vocal coaching.

Through his experience of NGVW and his own applied methods Laurent explores the power of vocal work in the coaching context.

Download full thesis HERE

Laurent Courtin Website

vsiadmin2020-02-18T12:28:33+00:00February 18th, 2020|

Tuning into the cascade of experience

In this blog from Vogel Wakefield Consulting Martin Vogel eloquently relays his experience of a weekend workshop with Nadine in Glasgow in November 2019. This piece really captures the essence of Nadines work.

Download the full blog HERE.

vsiadmin2019-12-19T22:37:14+00:00December 19th, 2019|

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