Workshops for actors, musicians, singers and performers
Thursdays during term times
10.00am -11.00pm
£10 per morning
At the Alexander Technique College, Hove.
Tel: 01273 562595
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The challenge of performance
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If you have problems with your voice, playing or performance it is quite likely that you are unwittingly contributing to your difficulties with inappropriate tension patterns. All performance, whether vocal or 'movement', is a complex interplay of muscular activity that involves the whole body. Habits that contribute to tension whilst performing or speaking ALWAYS extend far beyond the act of performing and are present in everyday life.
The things that you do, when you think you are doing nothing, are the most damaging! Often unfelt and unrecognised by you, they are habits of movement, co-ordination and posture that seem normal to you because you have practised them so often. This becomes a dilemma. How do you change something you can't feel and don't know you are doing?
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The Alexander Technique
This is where the Alexander Technique can help. It is not a therapy; it is a learning process. But it's not book learning, it's body learning. With the help of an Alexander practitioner you learn how to improve your breathing, balance, co-ordination and movement. In lessons teachers use their hands to guide your musculature towards a state of ease and freedom. The touch is very gentle, you don't need to undress and there is no manipulation. Explanations are also given to help you take better care of yourself and the way you move.
The Alexander technique originated from an actor with voice problems, and is taught in all major Drama, Music and Performing academies worldwide.
What to expect
The workshop takes place in the atmosphere of the teacher-training programme. In the first half of the morning you will experience work from senior students. In the second half we will work individually with whatever material you have. Perhaps part of a script or speech, or a passage of music. We will also work with basic voice and movement concepts.
Training to teach is an extensive, three-year programme leading to qualification and membership of the accrediting professional body. |
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