Photo by @elysebatsonphotography at 16th Street Actors Studio
6 - week Alexander Technique course for professional and amateur performers.
AT recognises and works with the whole person to create, feel and communicate with more ease and power.
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.
This course covers basic anatomy, movement fundamentals and the Principles of the Alexander Technique to build greater clarity of how your body works and experience new patterns of thinking in activity.
It includes applying AT to movements, the technical elements of art forms and rehearsal of material at the stages of anticipation, intention, performance and analysis.
Knowledge and skills developed in the sessions
An awareness of subtle physical habits and stress responses that interfere with performance.
The ability to distinguish between individual patterns and that of a character.
Deeper skill to animate the nuanced physicality of a character and communicate complex emotional inner worlds.
Expanding field of attention for connection to others and communication to audience.
Greater anatomical understanding and body functioning in movement and voice.
Refined body coordination experiencing more balance, ease and lightness.
Takeaways to incorporate into personal practice
Methods to sharpen awareness of environment, physical use and thought patterns.
Exercises to let go of daily unnecessary tensions, quieting and grounding the mind-body-spirit.
Clear practice to strengthen focus in the direction of attention.
Step by step process to coordinate in activity.
Simple tools to reinforce the foundation for more spontaneity, adaptability and creativity.
Cost
Full: $250
Need to join but low on funds? A payment plan can be arranged. Talk to me!
“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.