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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Voice and the Actor about Cicelythe, Speaking, instinct with the genre: Arts & Photography, Performing Arts.
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conversations.value: "Speaking is part of a whole: an expression of inner life." Cicelythe author has based her work on the conviction that while all ispresent in nature our natural instincts have been crippled frombirth by many processes&#151;by the conditioning, in fact, of awarped society. So an actor needs precise exercise and clearunderstanding to liberate his hidden possibilities and to learn thehard task of being true to the &#145;instinct of the moment&#146;.As her story points out with remarkable persuasiveness&#145;technique&#146; as such is a myth, for there is no such thingas a correct voice. There is no right way&#151;there are only amillion wrong ways, which are wrong because they deny what wouldotherwise be affirmed. Wrong uses of the voice are those thatconstipate feeling, constrict activity, blunt expression, level outidiosyncrasy, generalize experience, coarsen intimacy. Theseblockages are multiple and are the results of acquired habits thathave become part of the automatic vocal equipment; unnoticed andunknown, they stand between the actor's voice as it is and as itcould be and they will not vanish by themselves. So the work is nothow to do but how to permit: how, in fact, to set the voice free.And since life in the voice springs from emotion, drab anduninspiring technical exercises can never be sufficient. Cicelythe author never departs from the fundamental recognition that speakingis part of a whole: an expression of inner life&#133;. After avoice session with her I have known actors speak not of the voicebut of a growth in human relationships. This is a high tribute towork that is the opposite of specialization. the author sees thevoice teacher as involved in all of a theatre's work. She wouldnever try to separate the sound of words from their living context.For her the two are inseparable. &#151;from Peter Brook's forewordto Voice and the Actor