Fun With Ventriloquism

By Alexander Rensselaer and Alexander Vanrenssellaer

Book Overview

How do you speak without moving your lips? Alexander Van Rensselaer answers that in sixty brisk pages of breathing drills, voice exercises, and dialogue for a dummy.

Fun With Ventriloquism belongs to Rensselaer's long-running Fun With series of hobby manuals, which also taught readers card tricks, string figures, and party stunts. He begins where the physiology does, with what actually makes a voice, then works through breath control, the ventriloquial voice, mimicry, near and distant sounds, and the labials - the p, b, and m that give an untrained performer away.

The second half turns to the figure itself: choosing one, giving it a personality, drawing the audience's attention where you want it, and building a first dummy at home. It closes with suggestions for dialogue, which is where most beginners discover that the voice was the easy part.

This edition features:

Graded exercises in breathing, voice production, mimicry, and near and distant sound effectsA clear treatment of the labials, the sounds that most often betray an untrained ventriloquistPractical chapters on choosing a figure, building one at home, and giving it a characterSuggestions for dialogue, so that a new performer has material ready for a first audience

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445510413
• ISBN13: 9781445510415
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Gleed Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"