About Fitzmaurice Voicework®
What is it?
Fitzmaurice Voicework® is recognized as a global leader in voice training for performance because of its wide-ranging impact on physical and mental well-being, personal and community empowerment, and its commitment to diversity and inclusion. Through deep and practical explorations of the dynamics between body, breath, voice, imagination, and language, the work develops vibrant voices that communicate intention and feeling without excess effort.
Fitzmaurice Voicework combines adaptations of classical voice training techniques with modifications of yoga, shiatsu, bioenergetics, energy work, and many other disciplines (see primary sources for more information). This integration serves to harmonize the voluntary and involuntary aspects of the nervous system, and the voice.
Fitzmaurice Voicework focuses on the whole human voice, and can support speaking for performance, public speaking, singing, voice with movement, vocal rehabilitation, and developing greater presence. Since breath and voice lie at the intersection of the material and the non-material, this work can also assist in creative, intellectual, and spiritual growth. Visit Writings to explore further.
Where is it taught?
Fitzmaurice Voicework is taught at Yale School of Drama, Harvard University/American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, New York University's Graduate Acting Program (and some NYU undergraduate studios), the University of California-Irvine, and hundreds of other institutions around the world.
There are approximately 300 certified Fitzmaurice teachers across six continents. For information on any or all of the teachers, visit Find Teachers.
Certified teachers also offer public and independent workshops and private coaching (click private coaching in Specializations).
Through their ongoing development of the work, the Fitzmaurice community of teachers impacts thousands of students and professionals seeking more dynamic, expressive, and powerful voices.
Our Voice Teacher Certification Program offers people with an affinity for the work an opportunity to experience it much more deeply and learn practical ways to share it with others.
Curious about deepening your practice? Experience a workshop, retreat, or conference, or become a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher. For more information on scholarships, internships, community building, or donating, contact: info@fitzmauricevoice.com.
Fitzmaurice Voicework® is training that unites the body, breath, imagination, and voice for effective and meaningful communication. Students are taught globally by certified teachers within a supportive and inclusive community. It is highly modular and easily contributes to evolving performance, speech, and embodiment practices enabling people to speak their own truth contributing to a more equitable world.
Fitzmaurice Voicework® includes:
Destructuring
Destructuring promotes awareness and aliveness in the body, spontaneous and free breathing, and wide-ranging vocal expressivity—using Tremorwork®, a variety of other dynamic exercises, and hands-on work.
Restructuring
Restructuring encourages a healthy economy of effort while speaking or singing—and a deep connection to language and listener—using modified bel canto techniques and the "focus line."
Presence
Presence work develops natural vibrancy and the capacity to be open to the world while still having healthy boundaries. It is rooted in being fluidly aware of internal and external experiences while focusing on what matters in the moment.
Play
Play invites you to bring your whole spirit and curiosity to whatever you're engaging with. Within the context of play, you can explore all applications of Fitzmaurice Voicework.
Applications
Fitzmaurice Voicework® provides a foundation from which to discover the possibilities of voice. Certified teachers bring their own unique passions and curiosity to explore the infinite varieties of expression and communication. The work is endless.
“The work is physical and objective and endlessly complex and transformative”