1

2

OFFICE AND BOARD MEMBERS

Mandy ReesPresident 2012-2014California State University, Bakersfield

Lynn WatsonPresident Elect2012-2014University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Michael J. BarnesBoard Member2011-2014Wayne State University

Hilary BlairBoard Member2013-2016ARTiculate, Real & Clear

Cynthia BasshamBoard Member2011-2014University of California – Irvine

Guy William MolnarBoard Member2011-2014

Judith ShahnBoard Member2012-2015University of Washington

Adrianne MooreBoard Member2013-2016Utah State University

Krista ScottBoard Member2012-2015Texas Christian University

Judylee VivierBoard Member2012-2015Brooklyn College, CUNY

Patricia RaunPast President2012-2014Virginia Tech

Presidents

Board Members

3

OFFICERSMelanie Julian Secretary

Antonio Ocampo-GuzmanTreasurer

Keely WolterNewsletter Editor

Joshua MoserAssociate Newsletter Editor

Rena CookCo-Director of Annual Conferences

Jane BostonCo-Director of Annual Conferences

Adriano CabralAssociate Director of Technology/Web Services

Joshua MillerAssociate Director of Technology/Web Services

Thrasso PetrasDirector of Membership

John GrahamATHE ConferencePlanner

Jeff Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Voice & Speech Review

Tara McAllister-VielAssociate Editor, Voice & Speech Review

Zachary CampionVASTA Archivist

Brad GibsonBibliographer

Amy StollerInternet Resources Manage

Flloyd KennedyOfficer for International Resources

Judd JohnsonSocial Media Coordinator

Rene E. PulliamATHE Focus GroupRepresentative

COMMITTEE CHAIRSBarry KurAwards and Grants Committee

Michelle Lopez-RiosDiversity Committee

Joanna Battles and Tamara MeneghiniEngagement Committee

Joanna CazdenTeaching and Learning

Amy GintherInternational

4

CONFERENCE PLANNERS’ WELCOME

On behalf of the entire planning committee, Jane and I are delighted to welcome you all to the 2014 VASTA Conference “Voicing the Future: Reinventing Traditions” at London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Jane, as Leader of the MA/MFA in Voice Studies, and I, as a proud alum of that program, are excited by the fact that Central’s long and rich contribution to the tradition of voice training will form a backdrop to this event.

The VASTA Conference offers a vital opportunity for delegates to embrace the process of examining, revising and reinventing voice practice in order to maintain VASTA’s strong position in reflecting upon and developing the field for the future.

The program of keynote presenters, master teachers and member presentations has taken two years to assemble. Input from VASTA membership and Board members has led to a line-up that includes, amongst many notable practitioners, David Crystal and his Original Pronunciation work, Patricia Bardi and her Body Mind Centering, and Christina Shewell’s science and art based vocal praxis.

We are also honored to showcase Kristin Linklater, Catherine Fitzmaurice and Saul Kotzubei during specially allocated evening slots so that everyone can take up the opportunity to hear more about their seminal practices and learn of all future developments. New to the Conference this year is the Identity Cabaret. Along with the Diversity Committee, we hope that it will become an annual event.

5

Member Presentation Day, headed up by Elissa Weinzimmer, promises to be a highlight bursting with expertise and you will be frustrated at not being able to experience all the work on offer.

Finally, we are particularly excited that will have an opportunity to honor the first of the ranks, the extraordinary voice practitioner who paved the way for all of us to follow – Cicely Berry (OBE), Voice Director of the RSC and Vice President of Royal Central. We want to say a quick word of thanks to all the volunteers who have helped to make this event possible. A special commendation must go to the dedicated Victoria Hines who has worked beside us for two years, actually making everything happen.

We hope you have a marvelous week both celebrating and re-examining our vocal traditions as we “Voice the Future!”

Jane Boston and Rena CookCo-conference Planners

6

This is VASTA’s second conference in the U.K. (Glasgow 2005 was our first) made possible by an invitation from the generous folks at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. We started in 1986 as a U.S./Canada organization, but we now have a strong constituency in the U.K. and Ireland as well as members from all over the globe. This conference confirms our commitment to maintaining our status as an international organization and to encouraging dialogue among diverse voices from around the world. Our first conferences consisted of featured presenters alongside orchestrated opportunities for discussion and the sharing of exercises. When about a decade ago formal member presentations were integrated into conferences, it was an exciting step forward allowing us to tap into the incredible talents of our members and to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas. I have been impressed time and again by the creativity, knowledge and insights of both our featured presenters and my fellow members. This conference will be no exception. We have a stellar line-up of featured presenters as well as a fascinating array of member presentations. I know you will be enlightened and inspired. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to thank the Central School for hosting us, Rena Cook and Jane Boston for serving as conference planners, Elissa Weinzimmer for handling member presentations, Victoria Hines for her work assisting the conference planners, and all of the volunteers who helped to put this conference together. It is due to the many hours donated by these terrific people that we are able to offer an event of this caliber. I hope this conference will help you to meet new colleagues and connect with old ones, give you ideas you can integrate into your own work, motivate you to explore new approaches, and energize you for the coming year. I look forward to an exciting next few days!

Best wishes, Mandy ReesVASTA President 2012-2014

PRESIDENT’S WELCOME

7

VASTA VISION2014 - 2023The Voice and Speech Trainers Association has had a long-standing commitment to advancing the field, professional development of its members, publishing, mentorship, diversity, advocacy, and international growth. While maintaining these on-going initiatives, the organization plans to use the following three charges to guide us as we move into the future.

1) Share within our VASTA circle by increasing opportunities to learn from each other’s expertise, hear one another’s stories, open conversations, provide mentorship and nurture leaders.

2) Expand outside our VASTA circle by creating initiatives to learn from other fields, invite new members in, and bring students to conferences.

3) Engage with individuals and groups outside our field, offering our work to help empower their voices while opening ourselves to what we may learn in the exchange.

Our first initiative under this Vision Plan is our “Conference Grant for Interdisciplinary Engagement” to support members to attend conferences outside of the field of voice and speech and to bring back knowledge and insights to the organization.

8

MASTER PRESENTERSCurrent Trends in Original Pronunciation (OP)

David CrystalDavid Crystal is the internationally renowned authority on Shakepeare’s language, co-authoring the widely used Shakespeare’s Words. In addition, he has researched and codified what is now widely accepted to be the Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare’s plays.

David Crystal’s authored works are mainly in the field of language, including several Penguin books, but he is perhaps best known for his two encyclopedias for Cambridge University Press, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Recent books include The Story of English in 100 Words (2011) and Spell it out: the singular story of English spelling (2012). Co-authored books include Words on Words (2000, a dictionary of language quotations compiled with his wife and business-

partner, Hilary - Wheatley Medal, 2001) and Shakespeare’s Words (2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (2005), the last two in collaboration with his actor son, Ben. A new book with Hilary Crystal, Wordsmiths and Warriors: the English-language Tourist’s guide to Britain, was published in September 2013. Other Shakespeare work includes a regular article for the magazine of Shakespeare’s Globe, Around the Globe. Think On My Words, an introduction to Shakespeare’s language, appeared in 2008. All Shakespeare books can be viewed at The Shakespeare Portal. A new version of the glossary went live in 2008: see Shakespeare’s Words.

Ben CrystalBen Crystal is a British actor and writer. He studied English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University before training at Drama Studio London. He has worked in TV, film and theatre, at the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe, London, and is a narrator for RNIB Talking Books, Channel 4 and the BBC.

He co-wrote Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin 2005) with his father David Crystal, and his first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard (Icon 2008) was shortlisted for the 2010 Educational Writer of the Year Award.In 2011, he played Hamlet in the first Original Pronunciation production of the play for 400 years with the Nevada Repertory Company, and in 2012 he was the curator of the first CD of extracts of Shakespeare recorded by professional actors in Original Pronunciation for the British Library. His new series of introductions to the plays, Springboard Shakespeare, was published for Bloomsbury and Arden Shakespeare in June 2013.

His workshops developing fresh approaches to acting Shakespeare are given around the world and can be found atwww.passioninpractice.com. He lives in London and online at www.bencrystal.com, and Tweets from @bencrystal

9

Physical Voice in the Moving BodyPatricia Bardi

Patricia Bardi is a dance/voice artist, bodywork specialist, registered somatic movement therapist and licensed health practitioner. She is a native New Yorker currently based in Amsterdam. She is the founder/director of the Certification Program in Vocal Dance and Voice Movement Integration Practice Somatic Training centered in Amsterdam and accredited by ISMETA – International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association and KTNO - Kwaliteit en Toetsing Natuurgerichte Opleidingen (Quality & Evaluation of Natural Health Training).

Bardi has toured extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities and theatre schools throughout Europe, North America and India. She has received a London Arts Choreographer Award. She has conducted research on

North Indian vocal music. She is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and London’s Chisenhale Dance Space.

Bardi has collaborated with many dancers, actors, musicians and poets including Alex Maguire, Arthur Brooks, Makoto Matsushima, Felicity Provan & Monica Akihary.

She has developed and taught Organ Rebalancing, an advanced natural health practitioner training for professional healthcare practitioners and manual therapists at numerous holistic health institutes including Dr. Rudolf Merkel M.D.’s School for Cranial Sacral Osteopathy in Zurich. She has presented lectures & master classes to professional bodywork practitioners throughout Europe & the USA.

In 1987 Bardi founded the Rocca Project, an annual summer program for interdisciplinary performance arts and healing practice in Tuscany, Italy. She has been on the faculty of NYU’s Department of Experimental Theater, the School for New Dance Development and has presented her work on Vocal Dance at the Centre for Performance Research’s ‘Giving Voice Festival’ in Wales. Recently she participated in a Research Event in dialogue with Jane Boston, head of the Voice Masters Program & director of the ICV – International Centre for Voice at Central School of Speech & Drama, London.

Jane Boston

Jane is an internationally active voice specialist, researcher and poet with a particular interest in the contemporary performance of verse. She co-wrote and performed over ten productions with Siren Theatre, a Lesbian feminist company, between 1980 and 1990.

She has subsequently worked extensively as a voice specialist in the actor training conservatoire sector, and as a voice coach within the professional theatre. She was Head of Voice on the Central Acting Programme 1990-1995 and voice specialist and director at Roehampton University and the Poor School. As a senior voice specialist at RADA between1999-2009, she headed up research for the conservatoire, founded a staff research seminar series, curated an actor trainer’s conference in 2006 and an international practitioners’ conference on Breath in 2007.

She is currently Leader of MA Voice Studies and Head of International Centre for Voice with active professional interests in performing verse and authoring poetry.

10

Christina Shewell

The Heart of the Voice through Embodied Arms: An Approach to a Lorca Text

Christina is a Central School trained voice teacher, and a highly specialized speech and voice pathologist/therapist. She has also worked for many years as a business coach, consultant to singers and as senior university lecturer at University College London in voice and counseling skills. Her interest in the links between neuroscience, voice and psyche has led to continuing work with the Marion Woodman Foundation. As originator of the Voice Skills approach to vocal analysis, training and restoration, Christina teaches internationally to a variety of voice practitioners. Recent engagements include co-teaching with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Tom Burke in New York, and work as invited course leader at Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival. Her book, Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices addresses the continuum of normal-abnormal voice in spoken voice coaching, singing and voice pathology; it has received unanimously good reviews from all three professional groups.

Leticia Santafé graduated in Arte Dramático por la Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid (RESAD) in 1997. She was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship to study in London. From 1998 to 2000 she lived and studied in New York City on a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2003, she was the first person from Spain designated as a Linklater teacher in the USA. In 2010, she finished her Diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) with Linda Hartley in the UK. The practice of Authentic Movement gives her nurturance and support throughout her work. She has worked as an actress in Spain, USA, UK, Germany and Switzerland. As a voice and movement teacher and somatic therapist, she works with groups and private clients in Spanish and English.

Leticia Santafé

FEATURED PRESENTERS

Body and Brain: Some physical exploration for voice work

BRAIN AND BODY: CONSIDERING NEUROSCIENCE AND

VOICE WORK

11

Janet B. Rodgers and Frankie Armstrong with Claudia Anderson, Christine Morris, Sheila Gordon, Amy Mihyang Ginther, Amelia Broome, Allison Hetzel, Marlene Johnson

The audience will observe a group of actor/teachers as they move through abbreviated versions of cross cultural archetype journeys which have been developed by Frankie Armstrong and documented in “Acting and Singing with Archetypes” (Rodgers and Armstrong). This workshop will demonstrate an artistic and creative way of accessing vocal possibilities as well as a way of integrating body/voice and imagination to help actors reach their full vocal potentials.

ROI...huh? Voice Coaching Lost and Found in the World of Corporate Voice

Rocco is a Professor of Drama specializing in voice and speech. His book Voice: Onstage and Off, co-authored with Robert Barton, has been nominated as the Best New Theatre Publication by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and is in use by numerous College and University theatre programs (a new edition was publishied by Routledge in 2011). His latest book (co-authored with Joe Deer) is Acting in Musical Theatre: a comprehensive course. Together they write a monthly article series on acting in Musical Theatre for Dramatics Magazine. He is one of a handful of certified trainers in the Alba Emoting method and his research interest is in the voice and emotional extremes. Rocco is also the founding editor of the journal Voice and Speech Review for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and has edited the first three books in that series: Standard Speech and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training, The Voice in Violence…, and Film, Broadcast and e-Media Coaching….

Mr. Dal Vera received his MFA in voice coaching and training for the theatre from the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and his BFA in musical theatre from United States International University. His voice can be heard on numerous commercials and he has worked on over 500 films and television shows including LA Law, Hill Street Blues, THIRTY-something, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Gods Must Be Crazy. He can currently be seen as co-host and assistant producer of the public television series, Healthward Bound...a lifelong journey, which recently won the prize for Best Series at the American Medical Association’s International Film Awards.

Frankie Armstrong

Expanding the Vocal Palate Using Cross Cultural Archetype Explorations

Frankie Armstrong is a lifetime honorary member of VASTA. She has been singing professionally since 1964. In 1975, she began teaching voice and singing through developing a variety of voice and singing workshops. She is an initiating member of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network. She has been instrumental in creating the archetype explorations which are documented in the book, Acting and Singing with Archetypes. She continues to lead workshops in countries around the globe.

Rocco Dal Vera

12

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Kristin LinklaterKristin Linklater trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She was the Master Teacher of Voice at New York University from 1965 to 1977, while also working with the Open Theater; the Negro Ensemble Company, Stratford, Ontario; the Guthrie Theatre; and Broadway shows. She was cofounder of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1977. She has received major grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow and a lecturer, writer, and actor, playing the title role in King Lear, produced by The Company of Women, her all-women Shakespeare company co-directed with Carol Gilligan. She is the author of Freeing the Natural Voice (1976)—the revised and expanded edition of which was published in 2006—and Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice (1992). She taught at Emerson College in Boston from 1991 to 1997.

Catherine Fitzmaurice

The work began in the explorations and teaching of Catherine Fitzmaurice. She began acting in theatre when she was three. From age ten to seventeen, she studied voice, speech, verse-speaking, and acting with Barbara Bunch, who was also Cicely Berry’s earliest teacher. Catherine then attended for three years the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, where she was a scholarship holder and prize winner, and where she continued her study of classical voice training techniques with Cicely Berry and others. While a student there, Catherine won the prestigious English Festival of Spoken Poetry, sponsored by Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot. She began teaching Voice, Verse-speaking, and Prose reading at the Central School in 1965.As a teacher, Catherine found some of her students were incapable of being sufficiently vocally expressive. She saw the primary problem as inhibition caused by tension, particularly around the breathing, and in exploring ways to reduce this she discovered the work of Wilhelm Reich. She began to adapt some of his work for voice training and incorporated it into her classes. Since then, she has continued to study body-based disciplines and energy work (yoga, shiatsu, meditation, healing techniques, etc.). She has adapted and combined them with her classical training to form Fitzmaurice Voicework.

Janet B. RodgersJanet B. Rodgers is a Lifetime Distinguished Member of VASTA. Janet is a co-author with Frankie Armstrong of Acting and Singing with Archetypes as well as editor of VASTA’s The Complete Voice and Speech Workout. Professor Emerita of Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University, she created the graduate program in Voice and Speech. During her 25 years at VCU, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Romania, won numerous teaching awards, directed, acted and served as President of VASTA.

13

Saul Fitzmaurice KotzubeiSaul Kotzubei, is a Certified Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Since 1999, he has offered an individualized approach to working with people on their voice, breathing, presence and communication. In the early 90’s, he began working in the field of conflict resolution. He now teaches voice and public speaking in Los Angeles and internationally. He is lead trainer for the two-year Fitzmaurice Voicework Teacher Certification Program and is Co-Director of The Fitzmaurice Institute (which trains voice teachers worldwide). He has a Masters degree in Buddhist Studies from Columbia University. He has taught at NYU’S CAP 21 Studio, New York’s Actors

Center, and in workshops in Los Angeles, NYC, Boston, and San Francisco, as well as in London, Paris, Barcelona, Vancouver, and Santiago, Chile.

IDENTITY CABARET

PANEL DISCUSSION

Fran BennetModerator

Michelle Lopez-RiosProducer

Rocco Dal VeraModerator

Join us for an exciting forum of stories, songs, and poetry inspired by identity. Brought to you by the Diversity Committee, we hope this is the first of many such gatherings to share words about who we are.

Leaders of international degree granting voice training programs discuss ”Voicing the Future: Reinventing Traditions” Join us to contextualize the various conference threads and deepen our discourse surrounding the theme.

Now based in New York City, Catherine has taught all over the world, and has held teaching and consulting appointments at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Juilliard School’s Drama Division, Yale School of Drama, New York University, Harvard University, the Moscow Art Theatre, the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the Guthrie Theatre, Lincoln Center, and many others. She has also presented her work internationally at major medical and theatre conferences, including “Freedom & Focus” international conferences on Fitzmaurice Voicework® in Barcelona Spain and Vancouver Canada.

14

PAST CONFERENCES TIME LINE1987 New York, NY— Inaugural

Conference led by Cicely Berry, Dorothy Mennen & Bonnie Raphael

1988 New York, NY— Bob Parks: Awareness Enhancement – Making the

Voco/Physical Connections1989 New York, NY— Sound Connections: Body & Voice

1990 Evanston, IL— Vocal Perspectives: Phonation/Text/Physicalization

1991 Seattle, WA— Lessac Training: Vocal & Body NRG States with Arthur

Lessac and Sue Ann Park1992 Atlanta, GA— Linklater Training:

Kristin Linklater, Susan Dibble and Louis Colaianni

1993 Philadelphia, PA— Vocal Extensions

1994 Evanston, IL— Master Teachers: Michael Johnson-Chase, Ivan Midderigh,

Kittie Verdolini & Ralph Zito1995 Berkeley, CA— Master Teachers: Patsy Rodenburg, Jeannette Nelson &

Kelly McEvenue1996 New York, NY— 10th Anniversary

Conference: Celebrating VASTA’s Origination Date of 1986

1997 Chicago, IL— Joint conference with ATME

1998 San Antonio, TX— Voice & Healing1999 Toronto, Canada— Bridges Across

Disciplines2000 Washington, DC— Celebrating

Difference: The Performing Voice from Around the World

2001 Chicago, IL— The Lost Secrets of Speaking Shakespeare

2002 San Diego, CA— Breathe2003 New York, NY— Voice & Ritual: Beyond

the Spoken Word2004 Philadelphia, PA— Diversity

2005 Glasgow, Scotland— Breaking Boundaries: Crossing the Cultural Divide;

Cicely Berry - Keynote2006 Chicago, IL— Babble: Encountering

Sound and Speech2007 Denver, CO— Practical Voice Science:

Watch, Learn, Play2008 Ashland, OR— Your Most Sweet

Voices: Coaching Shakespeare2009 New York, NY— Vocal Methodologies

from the Source: Lessac, Linklater, Fitzmaurice & Rodenburg

2010 Mexico City, Mexico— CEUVOZ/VASTA: Muchas Lenguas, Una Voz - Many

Languages, One Voice2011 Chicago, IL— Vocal Play: Improv,

Comedy, Song & Character2012 Washington, DC— 25th Conference

Anniversary: A Voice for Good2013 Minneapolis, MN - Voices of Wisdom,

Spanning Generations2014 London, England—Voicing the

Future. Reinventing Tradition.2015 Montreal, Canada

2016 Chicago, IL

15

SCHEDULE

Follow if you have a RED dot on badge

Follow if you have a GREEN dot on badge

Follow if you have a BLUE dot on badge

Tuesday August 5th 2014

Wednesday August 6th 2014

Thursday August 7th 2014

8:00 am – 8:45 amGround, Breath, Speak!

Warm-up with Rena Cook(New Studio)

Wake-up your bones and resonate! Warm-up with Antonio Ocampo-Guzman

(Studio 1)

9:00 am – 10:15 am David and Ben Crystal Plenary Session: Current Trends in Original Pronunciation(The Embassy Theatre)

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Rocco Dal Vera: ROI…huh? Voice Coaching Lost and

Found in the World of Corporate Training

(Studio 1)

Leticia Santafé: Training the Body/Voice of the Artista- A

Research(Embassy Theatre)

David and Ben Crystal: Current Trends in Original Pronunciation Workshop

(New Studio)

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Break (Off-Site)

1:15 pm – 2:45 pm

David and Ben Crystal: Current Trends in Original Pronunciation Workshop

(New Studio)

Rocco Dal Vera: ROI…huh? — Voice Coaching Lost

and Found in the World of Corporate Training

(Studio 1)

Leticia Santafé: Training the Body/Voice of the Artista- A

Research(Embassy Theatre)

3:00 pm – 4:15 pm Patricia Bardi and Jane Boston Plenary Session: Physical Voice in the Moving Body(The Embassy Theatre)

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Identity Cabaret(New Studio)

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Kristin Linklater Special Presentation (New Studio)

4:00pm - 6:00pm Registration(Main Lobby)

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Opening CeremoniesJane Boston and Rena Cook, Mandy Rees,

Gavin Henderson, Fiona Shaw, Kristin Linklater, and Cicely Berry (The Embassy Theatre)

8:00pm - 9:30pm Opening Reception(The Atrium)

8:00 am – 8:45 am

A Sustainable Change for the Future: Embodying Voice with the Alexander Technique

Warm-up with Tony Smith and Julianne Eveleigh(New Studio)

Connecting Through Release: Partner Destructuring

Warm-up with Natasha Staley (Studio 1)

9:00 am – 10:15 am

Christina Shewell Plenary Session: Body and Brain- Some Neuroscience Implications for Voice Work (The Embassy Theatre)

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Leticia Santafé: Training the Body/Voice of the Artista- A

Research(Embassy Theatre)

David and Ben Crystal: Current Trends in Original Pronunciation Workshop

(New Studio)

Patricia Bardi: Physical Voice in the Moving Body Workshop

(Studio 1)

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm VASTA Member Lunch (Box Lunches Provided)

16

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Panel Discussion Moderated by Rocco Dal Vera(The Embassy Theatre)

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Patricia Bardi: Physical Voice in

the Moving Body Workshop(The Embassy Theatre)

Frankie Armstrong and Janet Rodgers: Expanding the Vocal Palate Using

Cross Cultural Archetype Explorations Workshop

(New Studio)

Christina Shewell: Voice and Words in Body and Brain

Workshop(Studio 1)

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Rehearsal Room to Stage: Mind the Gap!

New Studio

The Rhythm of Spanish Accents/ Giving Voice to

Mandela: Dialect Acquisition for the Film Long Walk to

FreedomWest Block 3

The Sweep of the Past Becomes the Web of the Future

West Block 5

Translating Fitzmaurice

Through Exercise and Speech

SciencesRoom Y

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Catherine Fitzmaurice and Saul Fitzmaurice Kotzubei Special Presentation (New Studio)

8:00 am – 8:45 am

An Integrative Warm-up with Andrea Haring(New Studio)

The Succulent Voice with Alexandra Witham (Studio 1)

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Alexander Technique and

Stough Breathing Coordination: Ribs,

Sternum, BreathWest Block 5

Training Actors’ Voices Through

Verbatim TheatreNew Studio

Laban and Shakespeare

Studio 1

The Polyvagal Theory in Context:

Heart, Breath, Voice, and Resilience

Room Y

Voice and Speech Training In

Canadian Theatre Schools: Past, Present, and

FutureEmbassy Theatre

10:15 am – 11:15 pm

Still I Rise: using text in voice work for transgendered

clientsStudio 1

Voices of the New Americas

New Studio

Kinesensic Skyping: Lessac International

Peer Related Learning

West Block 5

Innovations in Production Coaching

Room Y

British and American

Theatre Voice Training - Two

Approaches? A Panel Discussion With British and American Voice

PractitionersEmbassy Theatre

11:30 pm – 12:30 pm

Demon in the Wings: Stage Fright

West Block 5

Kalaripayattu and Fitzmaurice

Studio 1

The Word’s The Thing: Voice, Text & Moment-to- Moment

ActingNew Studio

BioMedical Science, Education and

Performance: An emerging paradigm of the 21st Century

Room Y

Voice as a Global Conversation

Embassy Theatre

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch Break (Off-Site)

Friday August 8th 2014

17

Saturday August 9th 2014

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm

One Voice - and Dance

Studio 1

Disability and Voice Training

ZZOO-WOe- SHAWWWhhhow

does this work when I’m

paralyzed?VIA SKYPENew Studio

Using American Sign Language as Tool for Exploring

TextWest Block 3

Accents of South Asia

Room Y

Panel Discussion: Empowering our

Researcher VoiceEmbassy Theatre

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Breath, Embodiment and Memorization in the Rehearsal

ProcessNew Studio

Seuss Up Your Shakespeare

Room D

Virtual Coaching: The Next Best Thing

to Being ThereRoom Y

Development of a Vocal Injury

Risk Screen and Presentation of First Year Results using

the Dancer Wellness Project

Pilates2Voice®: Demystifying

the Voice-Core Connection

West Block 5

Early Careers: The transition from

emerging coach to mid-career professional

Embassy Theatre

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm

The SAVI PerformerStudio 1

I Think I Understand You:

voice, identity and aging

Dramatic Communication - Can actor training

techniques improve doctors’ communication?

West Block 3

Poetry and Presence: Verse as a Vehicle for

Vibrant, Embodied ExpressionNew Studio

“Who R You? Rhoticity and

American Southern Dialects”

New Orleans Accent Film and Process

West Block 5

Know What? Voice and Practice and

Research

The Language of Teaching Voice

Room Y

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Frankie Armstrong and Janet Rodgers: Expanding

the Vocal Palate Using Cross Cultural Archetype Explorations Workshop

(Studio 1)

Christina Shewell: Voice and Words in Body and Brain

Workshop(New Studio)

Rocco Dal Vera: ROI…huh? — Voice Coaching Lost

and Found in the World of Corporate Training

(The Embassy Theatre)

10:15 am – 11:45 am

Christina Shewell: Voice and Words in Body and Brain

Workshop(New Studio)

Patricia Bardi: Physical Voice in the Moving Body Workshop

(The Embassy Theatre)

Frankie Armstrong and Janet Rodgers: Expanding

the Vocal Palate Using Cross Cultural Archetype Explorations Workshop

(Studio 1)

12:00pm - close Closing CeremoniesSing Together and a final performance

18

19

Conference Logo designed by University of Oklahoma student Kimberly Fuller

Program designed by Northeastern University student Pablo Hernandez Basulto

VASTA RESOURCESBe sure to visit vasta.org where you will find:• information about the organization• voice and speech resources• publications regarding career preparation and advancement• guidelines for applying for variety of grants (for research, conference support, networking, and early career members)• information about how to submit to and access the Voice & Speech Review• lists of conferences and workshops

Thanks to our friends at Routledge for sponsoring our opening night reception and a special note of gratitude for their continued support of VASTA and the Voice and Speech Review. Visit their book table during the conference and see all the titles that support our work.

20