Lisa-Marie wrote:
>BUT the Wesley Balk Institute greatly contributed to my fe elings on the subject.
It's interesting to me that you spoke at length about how you find it easy to be "natural" and show your emotions on the stage, yet you were trained and strongly influenced by Wes Balk. And you said you don't know how to teach your students what you do. My take on Wes's work, which I have practiced and taught for 23 years now, is that his techniques are quite teachable, and that these very techniques can give a singer the tools and the confidence to give an expressive performance. And as the singer becomes more fully able to give a full performance, he can relax and allow his own true emotions to be a part of it. It sounds like you may have forgotten how you got where you are! :)
Before I encountered Wes's work, I felt that I was "trapped in my body." The things I wanted to express could not come out. After I worked with Wes and started practicing and teaching his techniques (even wrote a dissertation on it!), people began to tell me how emotionally moving my performances were. They assumed it was "natural" -- little did they know I had worked long and hard to "free up," as we say. :)
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