Timothy A. Bernard

Hello again, Fit for Broadway!! I’m delighted to be here with you for week 2 of our series, “Vocal Athletes.” This week’s post delves more deeply and directly into the substance of what we mean when we speak about singers as vocal athletes. In other words, I’m here today to convince you that you, vocal performers, are athletes in every sense of the word, as completely and legitimately as sports athletes are. Some of you may find this obvious – but you turn out to be an enlightened minority! I spend a lot of time in my office counseling vocal performers by preaching the truth – the science – of vocal athleticism. Frankly, many just seem not to believe it, much less internalize it! So I’m here this week to start to make a case for singers as vocal athletes, so that you in turn might internalize these principles, live them, and in doing so – you will start to think the same way I do about taking care of your instruments, and your bodies. This is the foundation for all of us creating cha...

All art worlds have standards and rare gems. The genre of opera is no different. Rock and roll has the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, while film has great actors like Clark Gable and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Every art form that exists has classics that are shown repeatedly, be in on your television, your computer, or […] The post 4 More Famous Operas appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

(pictured above: Jane Jourdan, Carrie St. Louis, Justin Ramos) A few weeks ago, Fit for Broadway was featured on a panel at BroadwayCon about building projects or companies within the Broadway community. A few questions into the presentation, we were asked “What is the greatest joy you’ve experienced throughout your journey of creating X?” Our collective answer was “The community” and my extended answer, had time allowed, would have been a laundry list of every meaningful friendship I have born from Broadway.   Reflecting on almost five years of Fit for Broadway, the friendships cultivated through Broadway are without a doubt the most meaningful, joyful and supportive relationships we’ve discovered. If I were to take inventory of my best friendships, I would realize our commonality has and remains Broadway and most of my friendships actually started with a dialogue about Broadway.   For example, my best friend, Justin and I originally bonded over our shared love of Phantom ...

Photo Featuring: Drew Gehling, Kurt Crowley, Paul Kwak, Elizabeth Stanley, Ryan Branski “Hi, Fit for Broadway family!   Hello, vocal athletes!   Yes, YOU – VOCAL ATHLETES! We are so excited to launch this initiative, and most specifically, this series of blog posts, with our great colleague, Jane Jourdan, founder of Fit for Broadway. We value our partnership with Fit for Broadway, not least because of the ways it prompts us all to think about fitness. Typically, when people hear the word “fitness,” they think of the ways we use the body to become more healthy. Whether through strength training, cardiovascular exercise, high-intensity intervals, calisthenics, or any of the enormous number of fitness activities that have arisen in recent years, our culture has seen the evolution of incredible diversity in the ways we train our bodies. In addition, as we learn and perceive more about the connections between mind and body – meditation, yoga, and other practices to train ...

Born just after the turn of the twentieth century, Vasily Vainonen is one of the most notable choreographers in Russian Ballet history. Throughout his dancing career, Vainonen created dances for some of the most remarkable ballets the world has ever seen. In fact, his style and innovations in dance were so profound his ballets are […] The post 5 Vasily Vainonen Works appeared first on Cennarium . Article source here: Cennarium

In 2019, You define training. We’re just here to inspire. Kristine Bendul for Training for Broadway 2019. “We can think of training as part of a process we have been through or are about to go through to prepare ourselves for an upcoming event or situation. This is however, just one facet of the potential of the word. Training is not just a verb or an action. It is also state of being. Training is not only what we have learned and studied. It is an ongoing practice, a choice, a habit or a way of life in order to continually be as immersed and present as possible in our crafts and in our every day living. Training is waking up that 30 minutes or an hour earlier than we like to in order to do our daily meditation or prepare our first meal of the day or to do our daily work out whether that means going to yoga, dance class, lifting weights, doing Pilates, running, swimming or the like. You get my drift. Training becomes awareness. What we do with our bodies, what we put into our bodie...