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Forum – a place to engage in discussion

My last few posts have elicited quite a few generous responses via email, which I’ve then asked permission to post here on the blog. To make things easier, I’ve just set up a new page, you will see the link on the navigation row at the top of the blog website or click here “Forum – Join the Discussion”.

The aim is to make it easier to respond to posts, and to develop a discussion around the various topics. If it works out, perhaps I will make it the home page.

In the meantime, let me direct to over the Forum page, where I have just posted “Shakespeare our Teacher”, a story of serendipity involving last year’s Shakespeare Globe NZ National Schools Production Week, the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary Shakespeare High and me. Please take a look, let me know what you think. You can comment directly on the Forum, or begin a new topic.

With all good wishes

Flloyd

Back in Brisbane, Back in Action

Flloyd Kennedy 13 May 2011 Performance Skills Training acting, Bribie Is, Brisbane, CARE Australia, Christopher Hitchens, discussion, performance, private voice lessons, training, voice

It’s been quite a journey, from Phoenix to New Jersey to Seattle and thence back to Brisbane. I had a wonderful time with my family, getting to know the grandchildren all over again, meeting up with colleagues in New York, Seattle and LA.

Now, it’s back to the beautiful sunshine of soon to be wintry Brisbane. Private lessons begin again next week, and I’ll be offering some workshops very soon for those of you who appreciate the opportunity to work in a group.

Meantime, I’ve just set a discussion topic on my Facebook page, sparked off by an article by Christopher Hitchens here. Perhaps you’d prefer to add your comments right here, so here’s what I said:

“He speaks openly and very movingly about his experience of losing his speaking voice through throat cancer, and how he discovered its connection to his writing voice.

“When I began writing my thesis on the performing voice several years ago, one of the first observations I made was that we needed to make a distinction between the various ways we use the word “voice”, in order to promote discussion about the speaking voice. Hitchens makes the distinction, but also demonstrates the connection between the ‘actual’ (as in speaking aloud) and the ‘metaphorical’ voice.

“How do you feel about this distinction/connection?” …

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