Are you feeling burned out?
Are you feeling like you are doing a lot but never enough?
Are you a performer approaching the end of the year feeling the need to restore and re inspire your practice?
Come and connect with like minded people over a three day retreat to reconnect to body, breath and voice, and reinvigorate your craft for performance.
The Alexander Technique and Fitzmaurice Voicework® are powerful resources to strengthen awareness and develop deep listening to how our body & mind work together. They enable us to gain insight into how we deplete ourselves and offer the tools to let go of the unnecessaries, making space for nourishment and healing in an embodied stop.
These practices develop a state of stillness where we can deepen the connection to ourselves to find more autonomy, spontaneity and creativity.
Retreat information
Hosted by The Liminal Space at Siteworks, 33 Saxon Street, Brunswick 3056
Located in studio 2 on the first floor. Unfortunately there is no flat access for this workshop.
There is no parking available on Saxon Street or on site. All day parking is available at the local supermarket.
For lunch there are plenty of food shops and cafes nearby and kitchen facilities available.
Tuesday Nov 1 (Melbourne Cup public holiday)
Cost
$ 550.00 - Full price.
$ 440.00 - Concession. Use discount coupon code ‘STILL’.
Need to join but low on funds? Talk to us! We might be able to work something out.
‘Creating the conditions for your results to be inevitable’ Robyn John Simmons
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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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The purpose of Fitzmaurice Voicework® is to support people in finding and using their unique voices—in healthy, clear, and creative ways—while developing greater freedom and presence.
Fitzmaurice Voicework combines adaptations of classical voice training techniques with modifications of yoga, shiatsu, bioenergetics, energy work, and many other disciplines. This integration serves to harmonize the voluntary and involuntary aspects of the nervous system, and the voice.
Through deep and practical explorations of the dynamics between body, breath, voice, imagination, and language, the work develops vibrant voices that communicate intention and feeling without excess effort.
Fitzmaurice Voicework focuses on the whole human voice, and can support speaking for performance, public speaking, singing, voice with movement, vocal rehabilitation, and developing greater presence. Since breath and voice lie at the intersection of the material and the non-material, this work can also assist in creative, intellectual, and spiritual growth.
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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 - founding 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 runs a private practice and teaches at 16th St Studio and Howard Fine Studio.
Fabio Motta is an award-winning performer and teaching artist who has performed and devised theatre in Australia, Italy, and the United States. He is a certified Associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and the regional coordinator for Australia and New Zealand. He is also the artistic director of the Clowning workshop (www.theclowningworkshop.com) where he runs on-going workshops. Fabio has taught at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, HB studio, the Ume Group (Physical Theatre Ensemble New York) in the United States. In Melbourne, he runs classes in Clowning, Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Mask, games for theatre as a freelancer. He has taught at 16th Street Acting Studio, Brave Studios, The Victorian College of the Arts, St. Martin’s Youth Theatre and The National Theatre Drama school Melbourne.
Working extensively as an actor in Australia and abroad with companies like the Australian Shakespeare Company, Born in a Taxi, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and The Russian Arts Theatre, he also has multiple TV and film credits to his name including Ronny Chang International student, Utopia season 4, Carla Cametti PD, Canal Road, Apparitions, Slant and Little Tornados (MIFF 2021 – currently in Cinemas Australia wide). His critically acclaimed solo-show SPOT had a sold-out season in 2021 at Theatre Works and raving reviews in his return season in 2022 at the Explosive Factory as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Most recently, he has received a Green Room Award for ‘Best Performer’ for his solo show SPOT in 2022.
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.