Paths of the Voice

Abstract

This article proposes to narrate a path of formation, research and performance in the field of voice for theater. The actress/researcher describes the beginning of her artistic career and how the voice has always been present as a primary element of her history. She highlights the importance of vocal technique and the study of musicality for the creation of a the actor’s score, with the body and the voice. About musicality, there is the dialogue with the thesis of Jacyan Oliveira (2008) and the dissertation of Eleonora Montenegro (2001). The term vocal body is used in the article according to the thesis of Daiane Jacobs (2015). The actress/researcher also talks about the relation between vocal body, identity, emotions, gender issues and accent, based on the works of Janaína Martins (2008) and Alexander Lowen (1982) and on her experience as a professor of the Theater Graduation at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. She briefly discusses the process of creating her solo “Violetas”, from the methodology of Corporeal Mimesis (Hirson, 2012 and Colla, 2006) and the importance of this process for her research in the field of voice. Finally, she presents her hypothesis for her doctoral research at the State University of Santa Catarina, which begins in the second half of this year.