BPA (UTAS), BA Hons (Monash), Grad Dip Dramatic Art (Voice Studies) (NIDA), Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) (RMIT), PhD (UTAS) Dr Robert Lewis is a Course Director and Lecturer in Performing Arts at the School of Social Work and Arts. His main areas of teaching are voice, movement and directing for theatre. Robert previously lectured in the Theatre Program at the University of Tasmania. His PhD focused on intercultural and physio-vocal performance training aesthetics. He is a director, theatre maker and voice and movement teacher who trained with Cicely Berry, Frankie Armstrong, Rowena Balos, Mike Alfreds as well as Butoh with Yoshito Ohno in Japan. Robert has published theatre performances and training films through Contemporary Arts Media (Artfilms) and has also published widely on the subject of integrative practices and physiovocality. He is also a Certified Integrative Practitioner from the One Voice Centre, New York, and is also the founder and convenor of AusAact: The Australian Actor Training Conference, which was first held at Charles Sturt in 2018. Robert's research interests and projects include: Persona Collective is an ensemble of artists who explore intercultural, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and integrative practices in order to create new ways if working. The company situates itself in the realms of performance, media and visual arts to create new and reimagined classical, new, or established theatrical works. Persona's ongoing investigation is to explore the synthesis of performance, technology, immediacy and space. Persona are committed to: The primary aim of this study is to determine differences between trained and untrained performers in abdominal muscle recruitment as determined by Real Time Ultra Sound (RTUS) during different vocalisation tasks. The secondary aim is to determine the impact of a short duration workshop on performance of abdominal muscles during vocalisation in an untrained performer.Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Robert Lewis
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Deep Muscles, Deeper Understanding
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