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Breath in Action of related interest Vital Breath of the Dao Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong – Laohu Gong Master Zhongxian Wu ISBN 978 1 84819 000 9 Meet Your Body A Rolfer’s Guide to Releasing Bodymindcore Trauma Noah Karrasch Illustrated by Lovella Lindsey ISBN 978 1 84819 016 0 Experiential Chi Kung You Are How You Move Ged Sumner ISBN 978 1 84819 014 6 Breath in Action The Art of Breath in Vocal and Holistic Practice EdiTEd By JAnE BosTon And REnA Cook FoREwoRd By CiCEly BERRy Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia First published in 2009 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 116 Pentonville Road London N1 9JB, UK and 400 Market Street, Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA www.jkp.com Copyright © Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not tran- siently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Breath in action : the art of breath in vocal and holistic practice / edited by Jane Boston and Rena Cook. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-84310-942-6 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Respiration. 2. Voice culture. 3. Breathing exercises. I. Boston, Jane. II. Cook, Rena. RA782.B74 2009 613’.192--dc22 2008052200 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 84310 942 6 ISBN pdf eBook 978 1 84642 948 4 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Dedications For Joe Rena Cook For Liz, my mother, who knew a thing or two about the breath of life Jane Boston Acknowledgements Many people assisted and supported us in the five years of this project. I say a heart felt thank you to: Past and present students in the School of Drama at the University of Oklahoma who inspired me to dig deeper including Eudaemone Jervis Battilega, Amy Vorphal, Steven Knight, Marlowe Holden, Amy Brown, Dana McConnell and Walter Elder; administrators and colleagues including Tom Houston Orr, Marvin Lamb, Eugene Enrico, Kae Koger and Sheila Rinear. Rena Cook To Siren Theatre for revealing how theatre works and why it matters. My colleagues at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for deepening the discussion. My family for their abiding loyalty, especially my father for his editorial and journal- istic expertize and Ella for being herself. To Jac for the integrity of her thoughts on life, her capacity to feel, her take on what is and for the fact that her dreams about what might be stand a great chance of coming true. Jane Boston To our assistant Cassidy Elms who organized us and read every word of this book– more than once. 77