ACCENT SOFTENING

Do you speak English as a second language? Do you speak English with a heavy accent? Are people finding it hard to understand what you say? If so it might be easier for people to understand what you are saying if you learn how to speak more clearly in English. Looking at speech rhythms, intonnation and tone as well as sounds; you can be heard more clearly. This means you can maintain your identity and beautiful natural voice, while being fully heard and understood.

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Engage and connect with your intended audience, wherever your message is delivered. Capture your audience so they remain riveted

CONFIDENCE BUILDING & PRESENCE

Either in performance or every day life, Working with your breath body and voice can enhance your confidence so that you radiate presence and can deliver an authentic you.

BREATH AND BODY WORK

Getting out of your own way
By understanding breath and how our body and breath are linked it helps us to realise and acknowledge our own habits, patterns and triggers. An actor with this understanding can choose to put these elements of themself to the side and truly engage with and live in a character’s world.
Learn to operate from a place of ease and strength.
Using techniques including Feldenkrais, yoga and Alexander Techniques you will remember how to be at ease in your body. Connecting thought, breath, body awareness and movement allows you to transition with ease between relaxation to strength so that you operate at your maximum capacity.

VOICE FOR ACTING

“Take your broken Heart and Make it Art” – Carrie Fisher

An actor uses their whole self to create a character. The voice is integral to this and needs to be holistically integrated. Actors understand how to free their own natural voices and use them most efficiently in their work. This voice consists of the inner voice, the thoughts, the way the body reacts to these thoughts and to external factors and all that culminates in the sounds that come out! So we can make the choice to work from the inside out or the outside in.
By Combining natural instinctive impulse with tools and technique you can learn how to repeat a performance multiple times, in varying settings

Nikki Barratt (Casting Director) “I’ve worked with Danielle Roffe across a number of films and admire her thorough yet holistic approach. She has a deep understanding of the acting process and the great contribution that voice brings to a performance in terms of physicality and character.”

ONE ON ONE COACHING

One on one work consists of whatever you need to focus on at your pace. We can work together in person or remotely via Skype

GROUP WORK

By arrangement
Group learning is cost efficient and we can also learn from each other’s mistakes.

FILM / TV / THEATRE

Explore the similarities and the differences between all the mediums. Work with the techniques you can use to achieve the optimal outcome in each environment and understand how knowledge of each environment informs the other.

“Danielle Roffe’s UK training, extensive voice work CV and casting background make her my first port of call when looking for a Dialect Coach, or for actors needing voice work!” Gary Davy (cdg/csa) UK Casting Director.

TEXT

Establish the relationship between yourself, your character and how you engage in any given circumstances through the analysis of text. Make sure the words you are using in life reflect what you really mean. Understand how to enjoy and use language most effectively.

PREPRODUCTION IN FILM, TV
AND THEATRE

As a casting director, bringing together the vision of the director, Producer(s), and writer(s) in preproduction was always a challenge and a joy. Supporting the team to help craft the actor’s vocal choices continues to be part of my contribution.

AUDITION TECHNIQUE

Being prepared for auditions and screen tests is vital. Danielle understands the process from both sides of the camera and utilises her past as a casting director and her time working at drama schools to prepare actors for auditions.

ACCENT & DIALECT

As the world changes and people move around accents are also continuing to migrate. Learning accents is a great way of learning about the characters history and psychology. Actors are being asked to work in accent more and more which is very exciting! General American, RP, and Neutral English are now regularly asked for in auditions and screen tests. Have these up your sleeve and ready to go. Make sure you are prepared enough for auditions and then when you land the job we can work with the intricate detail of shaping the voice and dialect to work with the character. Danielle will help you find genuine source material for any accent and help you to master it. You can work remotely or in person.

”Danielle Roffe’s UK training, extensive voice work CV and casting background make her my first port of call when looking for a Dialect Coach, or for actors needing voice work!’’ Gary Davy (cdg/csa) UK Casting Director.

CONFIDENCE BUILDING

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself I lived through this horror I can take the next thing that comes along” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Authenic confidence comes by understanding and being connected to who you are. Using breath, body and voice work gives you this confidence so that you radiate presence and can deliver an authentic message in your personal and professional life.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING

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Whether you are at a party, in a boardroom or addressing the nation, one of the key elements to your success is how your audience responds to you. Whether it is a friend, a colleague or the public, they want and need to feel engaged and connected to you and your message, however large or small the message or the environment it is delivered in.

Starting with inner confidence and working from here to maintain presence so that people are drawn to listen to you, we then work with your message resonating within you and then work with the standards of physical presence, posture, connected breath, resonance, articulation and pitch. This means that what you are saying feels honest, has meaning, and will be heard and listened to.
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PRESENCE

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BREATH AND BODY WORK

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Getting out of your own way – Stanislasky

In the animal kingdom everyone knows how to breathe. In today’s society we start building up self protecting barriers from a young age, until often by adulthood we are layered with habits that obstruct us from showing or feeling our real selves and reactions. While this has been and can be necessary and useful we need to understand these habits in order to come back to the body’s natural and optimal way of being, breathing, moving, talking.

By breathing and moving freely, we can achieve optimal health, physically. We can be open to our selves and our reactions within our inner and outer worlds, so that we can make choices about how to respond. By understanding our breath and how our body and breath are linked we also start to understand our deeper emotional life and what it is to be human in this present, dynamic and everchanging society.

When an actor understands and acknowledges his own habits, patterns and triggers he can then choose to use these or put them to the side in favour of taking on the character he is playing, to live in his world and engage in it as he would.

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IMAGINATION/THE ARTISTS’ LIFE

“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened”

Joy, movement

Gabriel Roth

ONE ON ONE COACHING

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One to One work is a wonderful way of focusing on the specific needs of each student in whichever aspect of the work. Group work can be extremely useful as we learn from each other, as mirrors to reflect, to be inspired by and to learn from each other’s mistakes.

In One on one work things can proceed at the right pace for the individual

VOICE FOR ACTING

“Take your broken Heart and Make it Art” – Carrie Fisher

Combining natural instinctive impulse with tools and technique so that you can repeat a performance multiple times, in varying settings. Making the choice to work from inside out or outside in.

FILM / TV / THEATRE

Explore the similarities and the differences between all the mediums. Work with the techniques you can use to achieve the optimal outcome in each environment and understand how knowledge of each environment informs the other.

TEXT

Analysis of text and how your relate to that text in context. The relationship between yourself, your character and how you engage in any given circumstances.

PREPRODUCTION IN FILM, TV AND THEATRE

Bringing together the vision of the director, Producer(s), writer(s) and other numerous opinions in preproduction was always a challenge and a joy in any production as a casting director. Supporting the team to create a unified vision whilst honouring the actors’ choices continues to be part of my contribution.

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