Jane Boston

Jane has been a voice and communication consultant for over twenty-five years and has worked extensively in higher education, the conservatoire and both the public and the private sectors. She has considerable experience of both undergraduate and postgraduate voice teaching and actor training and has taught and directed at the National Youth Theatre, the Poor School, Roehampton University, Rose Bruford College and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where she was Head of Voice between 1990 and 1995. She was a senior practitioner in voice at RADA from 1999-2009 and Head of Research and Staff Development from 2004-9.

Jane is a skilled practitioner and works with a wide range of people throughout the arts, business, education and law. Internationally, she has designed courses for voice teachers in the U.S. (with the Central School of Speech and Drama); for actors in Buenos Aires, the National Youth Group at the National Theatre of Israel, for students and teachers in connection with the UNESCO's Theatre Chair in Romania and for Secondary school teachers in the UK. She has worked with a range of business clients, including BP and Siemens and in the public sector with central government and local council officials throughout the UK.

Jane has a ten-year performance history as a founder member of the Siren Theatre Company. As well as being an experienced actor, writer and musician, she is also an active and published researcher in the field of voice theory and practice, with publications that include the re-edited book by Clifford Turner, Voice and Speech in the Theatre and the co-edited book, Breath in Action: The Art of Breath in Vocal and Holistic Practice, published in 2009. Also, as an external examiner, she has worked for the Royal Scottish Academy of Drama and for the University of Sussex Continuing Education Department and is currently the external examiner for the Acting and Musical Theatre programme at Rose Bruford College.

Performance Breath: An Essential Exploration of Body, Voice & Word

This short clip is of Jane introducing the Performance Breath conference, an event that took place at RADA on the 4th and 5th of January 2007.

This significant conference enabled participants to deepen their understanding of breath in performance under the guidance and influence of the leading respiratory specialists and performance practitioners working in the UK and US. The inter-disciplinary nature of the presentations and workshops allowed educators, practitioners, and performers to reflect upon a range of different perspectives, in order to enrich and further develop their own practice with renewed insight and direction. The conference also fostered timely discussion and debate about the way in which the study of breath is situated in various practical methodologies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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