Integrating Voice & Speech into the Organic Acting Process. An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Integrating Voice & Speech into the Organic Acting Process. An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The hypothesis of this article is that recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience can provide essential knowledge about the organic processes involved in stage speech specific to authentic acting creation, thus contributing to improving pedagogical approaches in both Voice & Speech and also Acting.The article presents the premises for the integration of voice & speech into the organic approach of acting, from a neuroscientific point of view, as well as some tools and pedagogical approaches modelled from this perspective. Documentation in the field of neuroscience has allowed me to adapt a method of applied psychology in order to create exercises that enable the integration of new habits regarding voice production in everyday speech. These new exercises increase the work autonomy of students, who are encouraged to create micro personal habits, individualized according to their own needs and lifestyle. The re-evaluation of a well-known pedagogical tool – the vowel chain, from the viewpoint of the neurological processes of speech, allowed me to develop a working method that enables the integration of text recall along with activating emotionally competent stimuli, while correlating the speed of speech with the one of reprocessing ideas.

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