PERFORMANCE, VOICE, AND EMBODIMENT MASTERCLASS WITH DONALD WOODBURN

This intensive includes:

  • Challenging established ‘norms’

  • Working on physical grounding

  • Working on embodiment for easy and effective sound production

  • Finding ease and power with breath

  • Accessing and harnessing easy natural resonance

  • Allowing the senses to impact on word usage

  • Capitalising on absolute word flexibility

  • Accessing easy rapport

  • Prioritising the material world over fictional content

  • Sharpening vocal focus through quantifiable relationships

  • Harness the vocal power of being ‘on the take’

  • Owning and utilising personal space

  • Prioritising physical action over speech

  • Using the absolute power of context

  • Understand the critical role of self

  • A radical rejection of aesthetics and etiquette

Acting Mastery is proud to host highly—acclaimed coach, Donald Woodburn. Donald has created an Intensive just for Acting Mastery’s students.

With over 26 years of experience in the voice field, Donald is known for his sharp diagnostic ability and talent at quickly shift a speaker’s performance ability. He currently runs Woodburn Voice, is a Director at BrandU Media and is on the board of Feet First Collective.

He was the former Coordinator of Voice at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), was Head of Voice at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) and has worked extensively with state, national and international broadcasters.

He has taught in several countries around the world, focusing on the influence that culture and environment have on social, self-expression and storytelling. Donald is driven to engage with actors navigating the vocal constraints and freedoms associated with physical and vocal cultural practice to access natural, grounded, immediate, clearer, fuller, richer, responsive, reactive, connected speech, and create rapport.

This intensive is about shifting how you engage with your voice in performance. It is designed to reset your perceptions of vocal function and audience expectations.

Details:

2 DAY INTENSIVE

DATES: TBA

TIME: 10am - 6pm (with a lunch break)
COST: $395 + GST
LOCATION: Bondi Studio

For more info email hello@actingmastery.com.au