The Storyteller’s Paintbox
Would you like more expressive tools in your paintbox? Come explore a whole range of new ways to enhance your storytelling and spoken word art in this interactive workshop that tunes up all of our expressive tools. Diane’s unique exercises develop Voice – Body – Image connections freeing up our instrument to play and paint what is in our imagination. Learn new ways to animate narration, deepen characterizations and develop a more expressive voice and body. Diane’s background as a singer and theatre artist coupled with her thirty year career as a professional teller has allowed her to develop a training just for the challenges and opportunities that arise when telling a tale. Professional and novice alike will gain from this interactive workshop that delves deeply into the tools of the storytelling art.
Re-imagining VOICE
This fun, interactive workshop showcases the transformative power of voice
The eyes may be the ‘window of the soul’ but it is the voice that opens doorways. Everyday we rely upon it to communicate our needs and feelings to others and to respond to the world. This most personal of our expressive tools needs training and a gentle awakening to be transparent to the images, feelings and intentions inside of us. Diane’s workshop reinvigorates the voice with exercises developed during her years of spoken and sung performance and training, opening the voice to its creative possibilities and potential. Special emphasis is placed on going beyond habitual usages and restrictions to find your natural and true voice, increasing its expressiveness and resonance. Surprise yourself with the riches you can discover when your imagination is linked creatively to your true voice.
“A storyteller in the grand tradition, Edgecomb is a virtuoso of the spoken word…an entire cast rolled into one.” —Publisher’s Weekly
