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free the electrifying honesty of your voice
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Voicework with Noah Drew...
Highly experienced as both an actor and a sound designer, Noah brings to his work as a voice teacher a deep curiosity about how our humanity can be fully revealed in the sounds we make to communicate. Noah is a Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®(one of only two in Canada), having studied intensively for over four years with Catherine Fitzmaurice, Saul Kotzubei and nearly all of the Master Teachers of this work. In addition, Noah has trained in a broad range of voice techniques including: Linklater, Lessac, Roy Hart, classical singing, Grotowski/Barba and the Suzuki Method. Noah is a graduate from the MFA Acting program at Temple University in Philadelphia (with an Emphasis in Voice and Speech). His sound and music for theatre and dance have been performed on three continents, and have been honored with six Jessie Awards and a nomination for the Siminovitch Prize, Canadian theatre’s largest award. |
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Fitzmaurice Voicework® is a highly physical approach to vocal training that helps you communicate your thoughts, intentions, and feelings with a free, flexible, and potent voice. The work combines classical voice-training with adaptations of yoga, shiatsu, Reichian bodywork and other body-based/meditative practices. It aims to increase freedom of breath, resonance, power, spontaneity and emotional connection -- the full range of humanity that can be expressed in the voice.
The Destructuring phase of the work involves freeing body and breath from chronic tensions and "programmed" patterns, to allow deep spontaneity and presence. In Restructuring, we channel the wild impulsivity stirred up by the Destructuring into an open, healthy, supported voice. Fitzmaurice Voicework® is taught in the MFA acting programs at Yale, Harvard, NYU Studios, the Moscow Art Theatre School, and many other institutions all over the world. |
