Sentences with phrase «public orators»

Pujol is currently working on four new performance commissions for 2011 - 2012, including: Visitation, for the Spencer Museum of Art, a 6 - hour solo performance as an intervention throughout the museum of the embodied gaze of the artist; Walking Ground: Speaking in Silence, for the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, for 7 performers scattered throughout the city as public orators; Affinitas, a 2 - hour dance performance in honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in Boston; and a new American performance opera, Vortex, choreographed for 12 women.

Not exact matches

While Quintilian's Institutes were designed to train the orator of the first century CE, they do present principles that set the standard for a variety of modes of oral performance, including the public performance of an apostolic letter or an oral gospel.

vocation: Pastors are excellent orators, public speakers, speech - writers, organizers, and salesmen, among other things.

Our image of nineteenth - century political debate is one dominated by a handful of extraordinary public speakers — Henry «Orator» Hunt, the Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor, Disraeli, Gladstone.

His biographers Michael Crick and Julian Critchley recount how, despite not having an innate gift for public speaking, he became a strong orator through much effort, which included practising his speeches in front of a mirror, listening to tape recordings of speeches by television administrator Charles Hill, and taking voice - coaching lessons from a vicar's wife.

And while Oldman is barely recognizable in Darkest Hour, his Churchill is well - worn — the same funny, bullheaded, difficult orator familiar from half a dozen other Churchill biopics and from the prime minister's own self - curated public and political persona.

Proficiency in public speaking is a necessity, as people have always been incredibly willing to follow the passionate orators in times past (for better and for worse).