Experiencing Speech Workshop
A Two-Part Workshop in the Skills of Articulation
With Dudley Knight and Philip Thompson
August 15 through August 21, 2010
Chelsea Studios, New York City
This innovative and highly effective skills-based approach to speech and accent training for actors is now being used with success in a rapidly increasing number of professional training programs and college theatre departments, as well as in clinical and ESL settings.
Designed for voice and speech teachers, actors, directors, and speech pathologists, the intensive workshop in Knight-Thompson Speechwork will be structured in two parts. The first will focus on the physical actions that produce all the sounds of the world's languages; this section will contain no phonetic transcription. The second part will continue the exploration into even greater specificity through the use of narrow phonetic transcription. It will use these skills to explore formal and informal speech actions while maintaining complete intelligibility at all times. These skills prepare the actor to move easily into any accent or vocal characterization that might be required onstage or in film, television or new media.
PART ONE Three days, August 15 - 17
> Awareness and practice of precise articulation action.
> Producing all the sounds in language—"Omnish."
> The Skills of Speech for American speakers.
No phonetic transcription will be used in this session of the workshop.
Comments by Past Participants
"Thank you for this excellent workshop and for sharing your exciting ideas with us all."
"This was a terrific workshop. A very exciting approach. I plan to use it with my students."
BREAK We will take a day off Wednesday, August 18. This is a chance to rest and process information or to see both a matinee and evening show in New York.
"Terrific in its intro to the actual ways the sounds are produced; i.e. the actions."
PART TWO Three days, August 19 - 21
The application of detailed IPA phonetic transcription to the process of speech and accent research.
Using the entire IPA to research and teach speech.
Each day will commence with a vocal warm-up based on Fitzmaurice Voicework.
"Thanks so much. It was just what I needed!"
"Thanks for a wonderful experience"
"Great! Very helpful and clear."
"It was amazing! Thanks for the inspiration."
Dudley Knight and Philip Thompson are pleased to announce that they will also be teaching-for the first time- a six-day workshop applying their methodology of articulator posture to stage dialects, August 22-28 at Chelsea Studios. This workshop requires that participants have already taken the first workshop.
The Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshops will be held at Chelsea Studios, a division of Theatreworks USA, located at 151 West 26th Street, New York, NY. For further information, or to enroll for either workshop, please contact Dudley Knight at dknight@uci.edu.
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