Testimonials from valued clients.
Anne Lentz
Professional Dancer
Minneapolis Minnesota MANCC residency
“Ellen's teaching opened up an entirely new connection to my body and its abilities. As a lifelong dancer, I am accustomed to learning new movement and exploring new possibilities, but Ellen's work blew me away. Never before have I worked so deeply and in such subtle and challenging ways. Connecting voice to movement gives my life's work so much more richness and nuance, opening many possibilities for future work.”
Mark Haim
Choreographer/Dancer
"This work alters the mind and the body on a deep level. I recommend it for anyone who believes in the power of self-expression.”
Coleen K Cunningham M.D.
Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, UC Irvine
Pediatrician-in-Chief Children’s Hospital of Orange County
“I am a leader in academic medicine but often find myself uncomfortable giving public presentations. Ellen worked with me over several weeks, improving my voice, my position, and my movements. She showed me some of my bad habits that suggested a lack of confidence in what I was saying. Shortly after completing a few sessions with her, I had to give a presentation to a national audience, something I do fairly often. I can’t count the number of people who pulled me aside after speaking to tell me what a GREAT presentation it was. The thing is, the facts were all the same as I would have had in my usual presentation (which isn’t a bad presentation) but the delivery changed, making it better for the audience and for me. Thanks Ellen.”
Nor Hall, Ph.D.
Author and Post-Jungian Psychotherapist
“Working alongside Ellen, as I have for years as her dramaturg, is like standing on the bridge of the corpus collosum—that’s the hinge she lives on: between right & left sides of the brain, between body and mind, singing and silence, movement and stillness. It’s a creative non-binary location where images fired up from the unconscious find expression in dayworld productions: plays, presentations, films, lectures, articulate conversations, classrooms. Being her client, or side-kick in the rehearsal hall, promises a dynamic, revelatory and, above all, useful experience.”
Scott Ainslie
Singer/Songwriter Performer
“Embracing the Voice will transform you. Discovering the authenticity of your voice and body populates the world you encounter when you work with Ellen Hemphill... at the core, this discovery is what makes her a master director, writer, teacher and performer.”
Cheryl Chamblee
Creator, Strategist, Theater Artist