chapter / 2020
Three somatic processes to voice through movement: Breath, exploration, imagery
This chapter revisits Sellers-Young's core somatic triad - breath, exploration, and imagery - through the problem of voice. Voice is treated not simply as sound production, but as embodied expression emerging from the whole moving person. Breath grounds vocal presence; exploration opens habitual patterns; imagery gives sensation and language an organizing force. The chapter updates her earlier pedagogy through contemporary em...
Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond