As I talked about in last week's Live Office Hours (watch the replay on YouTube, if you're interested), classes, books, courses, conferences, and symposia often say that they're offering "pedagogy" when what they're *actually* offering is anatomy and physiology or acoustics or body awareness or neuroscience or any number of other (terrific!)...
As I mentioned in an earlier post this week, anti-fat bias runs rampant in performance spaces. In Western culture, we tend to consider the voices of folks who we perceive to have more positive characteristics as being more valuable or having higher worth. In the voice studio, when we believe that folks have positive character traits (such as...
If you know me at all, you know that I'm using the word "worst" here with my tongue FIRMLY IN CHEEK. And you might also know that ALL of these incredible singers are in regular rotation on my playlist. My point is just this: The world needs to hear what you have to say. And if you choose to speak to the world using your singing voice, I hope you...
Lots of folks do not enjoy learning by reading. This blog outlines eight alternatives to cracking open a text book for folks who want to learn voice pedagogy but who don’t want to do it by reading.
if you’re exhausted by online teaching, here’s a little reminder of something you already know xo
There are some sites I use OVER and OVER and OVER again in sessions to help explain or introduce a concept. These are the five I use most often.
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intention coordinates the body … and sometimes being a dinosaur is the best intention of all.
intention shapes action
examine your bias is all I’m sayin’
I need more “HUH”-moments in my teaching. You?