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.