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Whether in dance theater, performance art, or musical theater, today's dancers often need to speak onstage. Choreographers as diverse as Pina Bausch and Joe Goode are asking those who are usually seen and not heard to talk. Thanks to the efforts of Ellen Hemphill, a leading vocal coach, dancers are losing their timid, quivery voices and finding powerful ones that match their physical prowess.
To help develop this skill, the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, offers the popular workshop called "Voice/Gesture Exploration for Performance Art," co-taught by Hemphill and her colleague Rafael Lopez-Barrantes every summer. The workshop is six weeks long and meets four times a week for two hours a day. Hemphill enjoys the intensive teaching that is offered at ADF. "Students really want to be...
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