Dancing with Voice: A Collaborative Journey across Disciplines - Paperback

by Mary Saunders-Barton (Foreword by), Joan Melton (Author)

Do dancers and singers breathe differently? Performance specialists have thought so for centuries. But what happens when we're dancing and singing at the same time? Dancing with Voice takes you from theatre to classroom to laboratory to rehearsal with professional performers, actors in training, directors, choreographers and world-class physiotherapists. In her third book, Joan Melton explores the training and work of actors, dancers and singers via clinical and practice-based research and comes up, not with a method, but with a perspective on performance training. She challenges the compartmentalization still found in most conservatory and university programs, and proposes a more collaborative approach to communication across disciplines.

Author Biography

Joan Melton, PhD, ADVS, is a pioneer in the integration of singing techniques and voice/movement training for the actor. The author of One Voice: Integrating Singing and Theatre Voice Techniques, with Kenneth Tom, PhD (2nd ed Waveland 2012), and Singing in Musical Theatre: The Training of Singers and Actors (Allworth 2007), she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has taught at leading drama and music centers in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. She is a published composer with performance credits in theatre, opera, television and voiceover, and currently heads research projects in the US and Australia. Visit her website at www.joanmelton.com.