Tutorial: VoiceGym - Face & Tongue Muscle Exercises with Alex Evans
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As Pilates teachers, the voice is an essential tool in the practice of teaching and yet the maintenance of the voice is often neglected. VoiceGym is a complete system of exercises that co-ordinate the body, voice and brain.
This second VoiceGym class with Alex focuses on face and tongue muscle exercises, tongue posture and jaw translation. These are potentially major areas of interference in the voice and breathing ‘ suspension. Developing a new attitude to opening your mouth and strengthening the related muscles will bring major improvements all round.
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Alexander Evans is director of VoiceGym®, which was founded by Angela Caine (voice teacher, musician, lecturer, presenter and author). Alexander met Angela whilst studying for his degree at Southampton University and on graduating he continued to study and teach VoiceGym® at the Voice and Body Centre. He collaborated with Angela for 18 years primarily studying the effects of dentistry and structural misalignment in 'performance' and has taught and help develop VoiceGym® and Early VoiceGym.
Alex has coached leading West End artists, opera singers and international recording artists (including Shania Twain in preparation for her residency at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas), as well as dentists, osteopaths, doctors, lawyers and teachers.
Alexander is a member of the O Lab and has spoken at their conferences in the UK and South Africa on the importance of the multidisciplinary approach in sport and rehabilitation. He is also a founder member of the Dynamic Smile team in Hungary where he has helped set up the first VoiceGym® in an orthodontic practice.
He has also forged his own career as an actor/singer performing in West End Musicals, UK and international tours. Alex appeared in ITV1’s live production of ‘The Sound of Music’, in ‘Carousel’ at the Coliseum, completed a national tour for the ‘Sound of Music’ in 2017 and is now appearing in ‘Titanic The Musical’.
He qualified as a Body Control Pilates teacher in 2015.
For more information on Alexander, please visit www.voicegym.co.uk and www.alexanderevans.com.
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Filming by MK Ceesay (www.zigzagzig.co.uk)
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