Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond

Christina Kapadocha (PhD) is a Lecturer in Theatre and Movement at East 15 Acting School. She is a London-based theatre and somatic practitioner-researcher and founder of Somatic Acting Process®. Her current practice research and publications introduce new discussions on the somatic in theatre and performance studies.

• List of figures; List of online material; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: A phonotechnics of vocal somaticity: An autobiophonic note; Konstantinos Thomaidis; Introduction: Somatic voice studies Christina Kapadocha; Part I Vocalities in somatic studies ; 1 Three somatic processes to voice through movement: Breath, exploration, imagery, Barbara Sellers-Young; 2 Awakening grace: Embodied awareness in vocal training, Andrea Olsen; 3 Never just the body: Etudes between voice and dance, Sondra Fraleigh; 4 On Voice Movement Integration (VMI) practice by Patricia Bardi: Awakening resonance in the moving body, Patricia Bardi interviewed by Christina Kapadocha; Part II Voicework, somatics and the diverse self; 5 In front of me: Fitzmaurice Voicework® as transformative practice, Ellen Foyn Bruun; 6 Somatic training and resources for body-mind-voice integration: When stage fright "comes to visit", Leticia Santafé and Pablo Troccoli; 7 Voicing with awareness: An introduction to the Feldenkrais method, Stephen Paparo; 8 My body is a map, my voice is the path: (Trans)racialized somaticities and Roy Hart voice work, Amy Mihyang Ginther; Part III Vocal and somatic listening in training; 9 (Re)considering the role of touch in "re-educating" actors’ body/voice Tara McAllister-Viel, 10 Organic voice: Vocal integration through actor training; Christina Gutekunst, 11 Dreaming voice: A dialogue, Ilona Krawczyk and Ben Spatz; 12 Somatic logos in physiovocal actor training and beyond, Christina Kapadocha; Part IV Beyond the somatic in performance research; 13 Mapping the burden of vocality: French seventeenth-century vocal lamentations, Japanese meditation and somatic intra-action, Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano; 14 Intensive interaction: A lesson on queered voicing from children with learning disAbilities, Yvon Bonenfant; 15 Vocal resonance and the politics of intercorporeality, Anita Chari; 16 The somaesthetic in-between: Six statements on vocality, listening and embodiment, Ben Macpherson; Part V Beyond this book; 17 Beyond our somatic voices, Christina Kapadocha

"Traditional voice and somatic boundaries are challenged in this diverse and inclusive collection of interdisciplinary essays edited by Christina Kapadocha. As a collection, it focuses on voice research explored through performance and practice with a few chapters guiding broader pedagogical concerns. This collection, embracing both theory and praxis from an academic perspective, will likely be of interest to graduate students, researchers, teachers, philosophers, and anyone seeking to explore established and emerging somatic methodologies integrating voice." —Michele Capalbo, Voice and Speech Review