The body sings

Somatic Education in singers’ preparation

Abstract

This work proposes a reflection on the vocal preparation of singers as a working of the body in movement, based on the idea that voice is body, considered as a psychophysical unit. For this, the role of the body for learning is discussed based on the idea of cognition as an embodied experience presented by the actionist approach as proposed by Varela, Thompson and Rosch. As an alternative for vocal preparation, the path of Somatic Education is presented, and the principles that would guide a proposal of vocal preparation that would allow singers to recognize their own body as a vocal instrument are established; recognize your voice as a body, a body that operates as a unit; and, from there, be able to express yourself through your voice.