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On - going Alexander Technique classes for professional and amateur performers.
These classes are intended for students who have completed an 8-week AT course, have prior experience with AT and have worked with me privately or in a full or part-time acting program.
The primary focus is on maintaining your AT practice, continuous learning and unlearning, and fostering connection with fellow creative folks.
Within a supportive group and under the guidance of an Alexander teacher, these classes provide a safe and enjoyable environment for experimentation and new experiences beyond your comfort zone.
The curriculum covers a variety of topics catering to the specific needs or requests of the group, including basic anatomy, fundamental movement principles, breath, voice, deep listening, sensory awareness, group discussions and play, all while adhering to the Principles of the Alexander Technique.
Each week we apply the AT principles to the technical elements of art forms and rehearsal of material at the stages of anticipation, intention, performance and analysis.
Places are limited to 10. Book in advance to ensure your place.
Creative schedule? Just book the classes that you’re available, up to 12hrs before.
Cost
Full: $35
Concession: $28 | Use discount coupon code ‘REASONS’.
Need to join but low on funds? Talk to me!
Learn the AT principles to slow down, expand awareness and to gather your body, mind, and spirit in the present moment.
The Technique strengthens your ability to choose. In developing the skills to say ‘no’ to the habitual reactions that interfere with your work, such as physical tension or the inner critic, you make space for ‘yes’. Yes to play, connect, perform and allow creativity to arise.
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures,” F. M. Alexander
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The Technique was developed by Australian actor and orator, F M Alexander at the turn of the 20th century. It started as a solution for a performer’s voice problem and nowadays its application has widened into the education field and medical areas. The Alexander Technique is considered an integral part of the performer’s training and is taught in most performing arts institutions around the globe.
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Karen Anderson is an Alexander Technique Teacher based in Melbourne. She trained aerial, acrobatics, clowning, dance, hand-balancing and contortion throughout Europe and was a professional circus artist, teacher, co-founder & director of the award winning Dublin based PaperDolls Aerial Performance Company.
As an Alexander Technique Teacher, Karen maintains respect, warmth and a playful energy, refined by many years in the community and arts industry working with and supporting artists and communities. She also draws on years of movement experience in martial arts, yoga, and performing and always brings her Irish wit. For Karen, working with students in gaining freedom from old patterns and with artists in realising their brilliance is a constant source of inspiration and joy. To her, the Alexander Technique is a quiet and profound life changer.
Karen graduated from the School for F.M. Alexander Studies, Melbourne and is registered with the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT). She has a private practice and teaches at 16th St Studio and Howard Fine Studio.
These classes are held on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We pay my respects to their Elders past, present and future. This always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.