Nov 15, 2024 | Singing and Self Blog
Butterfly among the rocks (Kimberly Barber, Kathleen Lake, Yukon, July 2024) I’ve talked about Hard Things in this space before, and this is the time of year (about 3/4 of the way through the term) when such themes frequently re-surface. Students are preparing...Nov 1, 2024 | Singing and Self Blog
Lion King Rehearsal with Vox and Opera Laurier students (K. Barber, October 2024) We’ve always had students at Laurier who loved music theatre first. This love was, once upon a time, tolerated (barely), but never nurtured. The times, as they say, are...Oct 24, 2024 | Singing and Self Blog, The Disowned (Singing) Self
Identity (sourced at Snappa.com, October 24, 2024) It’s been a while, friends. In fact, it’s been 5 months. Not that I’ve not had things to say, just not enough bandwidth to commit them to the blogosphere. In fact, today’s topic is something...May 17, 2024 | Singing and Self Blog, The Disowned (Singing) Self
The price of shame (self-portrait, Kimberly Barber, May 16, 2024) Shame is something that comes up regularly in voice work, particularly with folks who identify as “non-singers”. It’s pretty much a guarantee in the workshops I give, that someone or...May 10, 2024 | Singing and Self Blog
While it’s not yet been unequivocally proven, there’s plenty of evidence that humans sang before speech developed. Anthropologists have been assessing the evidence for some time, and there are lots of reasons why this might be so. When we consider the...