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November 17, 2017

Friday Focus: Let's Talk about Feet, Baby!

Feet are complicated. They have what seems like a million moving parts and they are among the most unglamorous parts of human anatomy.

Friday Focus
November 17, 2017

The Power of Confluence

Notes from Gina
October 24, 2017

What is the "Voice of Authority" and Why do I need one?

Notes from Gina
Voice Use Strategies
September 15, 2017

Friday Focus: Practice makes Permanent (or how to fall in love with Process)

Friday Focus
Singing
Voice Use Strategies
Why Study Voice
September 1, 2017

Friday Focus: Winter is Coming, or how to survive the transition into Fall and Winter.

Friday Focus
Singing
Voice Use Strategies
August 18, 2017

Friday Focus: Vocal Health - Care

Friday Focus
Singing
Voice Use Strategies
July 30, 2017

Friday (Saturday?) Focus: Voice Health - Hygiene

Friday Focus
Singing
Voice Use Strategies
July 21, 2017

Friday Focus: What's in a Voice?

Friday Focus
Why Study Voice
July 15, 2017

Friday Focus: Alignment in Pursuit of Sound

Friday Focus
Voice Use Strategies
Why Study Voice
July 7, 2017

Friday Focus: The Vocal Tract

Over the past weeks, I have described components of the vocal instrument working my way upward, and now we arrive at the source of sound, the vocal tract.

Friday Focus
July 3, 2017

On Adele and the Myth of Technique

Notes from Gina
Singing
Voice Use Strategies
Why Study Voice
July 1, 2017

Friday Focus: Find your Wings

Today’s focus is on your wings and how they work.  Specifically, the Scapula and its muscle attachments.

Friday Focus
June 23, 2017

Friday Focus: Breathing for Voice Use

The voice as we know it is the result of interconnected functions in the body powered by air, specifically by your breathing.

Friday Focus
June 21, 2017

Why do our political leaders sound so terrible?

Voice Use Strategies
Why Study Voice
June 18, 2017

Can the Arts meet Activism without Partisanism? Thoughts on the 2017 Stagesource Conference.

Notes from Gina
June 12, 2017

Why all this anatomy in Friday Focus?

Notes from Gina
June 11, 2017

Friday Focus: The Diaphragm

Most of us have heard of the diaphragm if only from a well-meaning choir teacher encouraging us to breathe from it.

Friday Focus
June 9, 2017

Friday Focus: The Psoas

Friday Focus
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