As I talked about in last week's Live Office Hours (watch the replay on Facebook, YouTube, or Vimeo), 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!)...
So … there are a LOT of books out there with diagrams and explanations and allll the physiology (ie the 'this is how this stuff works' info) but sometimes you just want something (relatively) simple with some clear pictures that will give you more clarity about one thing or the other. Just a little more clarity. And sometimes you just want...
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...
One of the things we're talking about (and practicing) a LOT in The VPUD are better ways to give feedback to the singers we work with. Ways that model formative assessment methods and support their agency. So I thought that, for this week's FriFavFive, I'd offer a few quick reads that I hope will give you some ideas of why and how to change the...
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.
Something you may not know about me is that both of my children are neurodivergent.
Sometimes we use the phrase “breath support” when what we really mean is, well, something else.
tongue tension is a thing. so i went live to talk about it.
if you’re exhausted by online teaching, here’s a little reminder of something you already know xo