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Title The Active Centre
Published 2014
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Summary e-Book:   The e-Book demonstrates a series of exercises developed by the Voice Theatre Lab that consolidates the body and the voice in order to prime the performer to perform to the best of their ability. The body and the voice are interconnected; they need to work together - they also need to work against each other as well. Part 1: Ultrasound demonstrations using selected exercises from The Active Centre Part 2: Profuge - adapted from Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, performed by Voice Theatre Lab, 2011 Performing is not an easy feat. There are many things going on when performing: remembering dialogue, lyrics and moves while making them fresh performance after performance; being aware of the audience, but not making it obvious that you are aware of them; being aware of themselves in space and time, but making sure that the ‘ego’ is out of the way; and allowing that conscious mind to step aside during performance so that a more interesting unconscious presence emerges, but on the other hand, not losing it all together, as it is necessary for monitoring the performance in order to gage its success (or failure). Take all that into account and then add a little bit of nerves. The voice, whilst placed under a lot of external stress (performance pressures and of course, physical intensity), needs to sound as free as possible. This in itself is a contradiction. The exercises in this book explore some of these contradictions, particularly the notion that the voice must be clear and expressive even though the body is placed under a certain amount physical intensity.  
Analysis Physical / Visual
Theatre
Form Streaming video