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Resonance and Persuasion
‘Maximum resonance with minimum effort’ is a central tenet of the Linklater approach to voice training, which this month’s guest speaker, actor and voice coach Christina Koch has practiced for the last eight years. The concept is not a foreign one to business owners, who inevitably aim for maximum efficiency in all aspects of their practice. Christina introduced the group to the ways that connection with an audience can encourage the alert relaxation which allows vibration, and therefore vocal resonance, to thrive.
Christina Koch is a theatre practitioner (voice coach, actor, director, producer) of over fifteen years experience in Brisbane, working with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, Queensland Theatre Company and the Bell Shakespeare Company during that time. Over the last few months she has worked as a voice coach, notably delivering the ‘Shakespeare’s Playground: Resonance, Persuasion, Memory, Play’ workshop in Dorrigo and for the Armidale Chamber of Commerce, to excellent feedback and requests for extended return workshops.
Since 2002 Christina has trained locally in the Linklater approach to voice training with master teacher Rob Pensalfini, Artistic Director of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, and internationally at Shakespeare and Company in Massachusetts, where she then returned as a guest participant in a workshop on Shakespeare’s Rhetoric.
Back in Australia, she applied this learning to her direction of a cast of senior legal practitioners, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the former Attorney General, in a reading of Twelve Angry Men for the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble.
Christina was assistant director to John Bell AO on Bell Shakespeare and Queensland Theatre Company’s 2009 co-production of The Alchemist, and was scriptwriter and project coordinator for Kerry O’Brien’s Hypothetical at the 2009 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference.
Christina Koch is a theatre practitioner (voice coach, actor, director, producer) of over fifteen years experience in Brisbane, working with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, Queensland Theatre Company and the Bell Shakespeare Company during that time. Over the last few months she has worked as a voice coach, notably delivering the ‘Shakespeare’s Playground: Resonance, Persuasion, Memory, Play’ workshop in Dorrigo and for the Armidale Chamber of Commerce, to excellent feedback and requests for extended return workshops.
Since 2002 Christina has trained locally in the Linklater approach to voice training with master teacher Rob Pensalfini, Artistic Director of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, and internationally at Shakespeare and Company in Massachusetts, where she then returned as a guest participant in a workshop on Shakespeare’s Rhetoric.
Back in Australia, she applied this learning to her direction of a cast of senior legal practitioners, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the former Attorney General, in a reading of Twelve Angry Men for the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble.
Christina was assistant director to John Bell AO on Bell Shakespeare and Queensland Theatre Company’s 2009 co-production of The Alchemist, and was scriptwriter and project coordinator for Kerry O’Brien’s Hypothetical at the 2009 Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference.