Voice and Oral Expression

Spoken voice

From October 6 to June 22, 2023

Thursday 9am – 11am with Mariona Esplugues
Thursday 11am – 13pm with Mariona Esplugues and Dana Carbonell

In the first semester of the course, we will work on awareness of the body and breathing to identify the blockages that prevent the voice channel from being open and free. We will begin to identify tools to project the voice and apply it to improvisational texts and exercises.

In the second semester, we will focus on the projection of the voice when interpreting theatrical texts, and we will place special emphasis on articulation and vocalization. We will work with both contemporary and classic texts.

Catalan dictionary

From October 5 to February 9, 2023

Wednesday 9.30am – 11am with Dana Carbonell
Wednesday 11am – 12.30am with Dana Carbonell
Thursday 17.30pm – 19pm with Miriam Marcet

Specific Catalan diction work will be done, identifying the vowel and consonant sounds of standard Catalan.

The concepts of punctuation and intonation applied to interpretative texts in front of the camera will also be addressed.

Spanish dictionary

Theatrical texts
From September 19 to February 8, 2023

Monday 9.30am – 11am with Júlia Barceló
Wednesday 17.30am – 19am with Jaime C. Segura

Cinematographic texts
From 15 from February to 21 in June of 2023   

Wednesday 9.30am – 11am with Jaime C. Segura
Wednesday 11am – 12.30am with Jaime C. Segura
Thursday 17.30pm – 19pm with Jaime C. Segura

Specific Spanish diction work will be done, identifying the vowel and consonant sounds of the language itself.

The concepts of punctuation and intonation applied to interpretive theatrical or cinematographic texts will also be addressed.

Diction and articulation for the cinema

From 13 from February to 19 in June of 2023

Monday 9.30am – 11am with Àngels Sánchez
Wednesday 17.30pm – 19pm with Miriam Marcet

We will work together with different articulation tools in order to integrate them into the interpretation itself.

There will be practical work that links the body, voice and diction. We will work specifically with cinematographic scenes.

Verse reading

From September 22 to February 9, 2023

Thursday 12.30pm – 14pm with Àngels Sánchez

In this course we will discover the essential elements of verse. We will learn about concepts such as the scanning of verses, the rhythmic foot, the syllabic count and the different types of rhythms (iambic, anapestic, dactylic). And it will be applied with texts and authors from all periods: France, England and Catalonia in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.

Dramatized reading

From 16 from February to 22 in June of 2023

Thursday 12.30pm – 14pm with Àngels Sánchez

The aim of this course is, on the one hand, to give the necessary tools to deal with a theatrical text: work of structural and content comprehension, emotional connection and communication of the same text; and on the other hand, to understand and learn to develop in the specific elements of the dramatized reading like concrete tool for the actor: to learn to give life to the personages from the paper and at the same time, to make disappear the paper in the eyes of the public from serving the images and emotions of the theatrical text.

Teachers

Júlia Barceló CV

Dana Carbonell CV

Mariona Esplugues CV

Miriam Marcet CV

Àngels Sánchez CV

Jaime C. Segura CV