Table des matières

Preface

Jean-Rémi Lapaire

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

A User’s Guide

Part One. Behind the Words

Preamble to Part One

1. Outside the Box

• To begin at the beginning
• Early steps
• First encounters with a second language
• Prosody
• Another classroom
• Another approach

2. Body Matters

• More than words
• Body being
• Body moving
• Body changing

3. Voice Is

• Voice
• Speech
• Language
• Evaluating voice
• Sound

4. More Than One Brain

5. From Navel to Lips

• Knowing how it works
• Towards the source

6. The Silent Experience

• English and silence
• Silence as punctuation
• A silent praxis
• Active silence
• Effective silence
• Luscious mouth feel

7. The Engaged Body

8. A Feel For

• Self-awareness and self-consciousness
• Focus
• Inner zone
• Outer zone
• Engagement zone
• Energy
• Focusing on the body
• Emotion
• Liberation
• A time to be silly
• Gurning
• Nonsense

9. When Voice Pleases

• Football results
• A French champion
• Cricketing voices

10. When Voice Isn’t

• Lack of volume
• Staccato delivery
• Articulation difficulties

Part Two. Body and Voice Outfront

Preamble to Part Two

How To

1. Corporal Cues

• 1:1 Walking
• Activity
• Variations
• 1:2 Posture
• Activity
• 1:3 Roll up
• Activity
• 1:4 Body scan
• Activity
• Variations
• 1:5 Shake it out!
• Activity
• Variations
• 1:6 Mirror writing
• Activity
• 1:7 Cross limbs
• Activity
• 1:8 Metamorphosis
• Activity
• 1:9 Entering the space
• Activity
• Variation

2. Energy

• Putting oomph into voice
• 2:1 Bear and bird
• Activity
• 2:2 Yawning
• Activity
• 2:3 Shooting sounds
• Activity
• Variations
• 2:4 Zip-zap-zop
• Activity
• 2:5 The samouraï
• Activity
• 2:6 Passing the woosh
• Activity
• 2:7 Primal sounds
• Activity

3. Breathing

• The source of sound
• 3:1 Breathing means
• Activity
• 3:2 Belly Breathing
• Activity
• 3:3 Breath beat—breathing and movement
• Activity
• 3:4 Ribcage opening 1
• Activity
• 3:5 Ribcage opening 2
• Activity
• 3:6 Count up
• Activity
• Variations
• 3:7 Voiceless reading aloud
• Activity
• 3:8 Breathing and volume
• Activity
• 3:9 Breathing and volume 1
• Activity
• Variation
• 3:10 The Tibetan bowl
• Activity
• Variation
• 3:11 Breathing and volume 2
• Activity

4. Shaping Sound

• The articulators
• 4:1 Face-gurning
• Activity
• 4:2 Jaw
• Activity
• 4:3 Lips
• Activity
• 4:4 Tongue
• Activity
• 4:5 Tongueless conversation
• Activity
• 4:6 Soft palate
• Activity
• 4:7 The gasp
• Activity
• 4:8 The ‘ah—ng’
• Activity
• 4:9 Texts for articulation
• Sentences
• 4:10 Only consonants—Only vowels
• Activity

5. Freeing Sound

• Musicality
• 5:1 Bouncing sounds from the diaphragm 1—hoo – hoo – hoo
• Activity
• 5:2 Bouncing phrases from the diaphragm 2—Who are you?
• Activity
• Variation
• 5:3 Nonsense greetings
• Activity
• 5:4 Nonsense creation
• Activity
• 5:5 ‘Yes’ variation
• Activity
• Variation:
• 5:6 Correcting the facts
• Activity
• 5:7 Hum roller coaster
• Activity
• 5:8 Hum it
• Activity
• Variations
• 5:9 Body swing
• Activity
• Variations
• 5:10 Sing it
• Activity
• 5:11 Back-speak
• Activity

6. Emotion

• Imagination and context
• 6:1 The sigh
• Activity
• 6:2 Greeting with emotion
• Activity
• 6:3 Text in context
• Suggested text
• 6:4 Body talk
• Activity
• 6:5 Body walk and talk
• Activity
• 6:6 Where have you been?
• Activity
• Variations
• 6:7 Colourful speech
• Activity
• Variations
• 6:8 The cat
• Activity
• 6:9 To be poem
• Activity
• 6:10 Text annotation for prosody
• Beware of Oral Grandiosity—Version 1
• Beware of Oral Grandiosity—Version 2
• Variation

7. THEMPPO tools

• 7:1 THEMPPO Text (TT)—Legend
• 7:2 THEMPPO Videos

References