by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | May 28, 2018 | business
Pinball is fun when you are the playfield and not the ball. The playfield is the part of a pinball machine that all the cool dohickeys reside. The place where pinballs get trapped, ramped, orbited, flipped, and bumped. Are you the playfield or the pinball? Do your...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 3, 2018 | business, Teaching, Technique
What would you say if I told you that your mindset doesn’t matter? That all of your goals are achievable no matter what you believe? What if I told you that it DOES NOT matter how prepared you are. Or how knowledgeable? “You don’t have to be great to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 28, 2018 | Pedagogy, Teaching, Technique
…as Classical or Musical Theater singing. Which is kind of a big fat duh, but also a little difficult to talk about in voice teacher land. Why? Because our field really does want the best for our students (do no harm!) and some of the sounds and stylings around...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jun 24, 2017 | business
One of my favorite things to do is frolic on the interwebs. I love the community that I have been able to create here, and the true friendships that have been cultivated across time and location. The BEST! It has been noticed, however, that sometimes we have a hard...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 27, 2017 | Inspiration, Teaching, Technique
In short, BOTH. Coaches and Teachers are an integral part of developing ones skill set, achieving performance breakthrough, and understanding style and genre. A teacher builds your toolkit. A coach picks the right tools for the job. You can’t hammer in a...
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