Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

2014
Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

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  • Author: Cathy Madden
  • Publisher: Intellect (UK)
  • ISBN: 9781783202188
  • Category : Acting
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic stiffness or stress. Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists presents the empirical research of Cathy Madden, a teacher and coach with more than thirty-five years of experience with the technique. She addresses common concerns, such as concentration, relaxation, discipline-specific techniques, warm-ups, performer/audience relationships, stage fright, and critical responses, and explores the role of the senses, emotions, learned behavior, human consciousness studies, and neuroscience in the application of the techniques.

Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

2014
Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

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  • Author: Cathy Madden
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781783202195
  • Category : MEDICAL
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 404

"An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic stiffness or stress ... [The book] addresses common concerns, such as concentration, relaxation, discipline-specific techniques, warm-ups, performer/audience relationships, stage fright and critical responses ... in the application of the techniques."--Provided by publisher.

The Alexander Technique for Musicians

2013-11-21
The Alexander Technique for Musicians

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  • Author: Judith Kleinman
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1408176831
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to the Alexander Technique, or to supplement the reader's lessons, the book looks at daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher–pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and the application of the Alexander Technique to instrumental and vocal work. Complete with diagrams and photographs to aid the learning process, as well as step-by-step procedures and diary entries written by participating students, The Alexander Technique for Musicians gives tried-and-tested advice, drawn from the authors' twenty-plus years of experience working with musicians, providing an essential handbook for musicians seeking the most from themselves and their art.

Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique

2022-07-25
Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Amanda Cole
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811652562
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

This book focuses on the teaching and philosophy of the pioneering performing arts teacher and educator Marjorie Barstow. She is one of the best and brightest exponents of the Alexander Technique (AT), an approach to awareness and movement widely deployed and valued in the performing arts and outside artistic circles. By comparing her approach to the educational philosophy of John Dewey, this book resurrects Marjorie Barstow’s name, and gives her pedagogy and legacy the attention it deserves.

Galvanizing Performance

2017-08-21
Galvanizing Performance

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  • Author: Kathleen Juhl
  • Publisher: Singing Dragon
  • ISBN: 085701272X
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors, all artists themselves, demonstrate how deliberate movement can improve an individual's art and benefit their general health and wellbeing. Using specific case examples and in-depth analysis over a range of performance arts, this book supports instruction of effective movement and the Alexander Technique within different artistic disciplines for students and teachers alike.

Teaching the Alexander Technique

2018-07-19
Teaching the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Cathy Madden
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 0857013467
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Thoughtful and accessible, this guidebook unpacks the teaching process of the Alexander Technique for new and more experienced practitioners. By demonstrating the pathway from learning the Alexander Technique for oneself to teaching it, Madden identifies the skill sets required for excellence in teaching the Alexander Technique, and shows readers how they can acquire and develop these skills themselves. Observation, communication and tactile skills are all covered, and particular attention is paid to group teaching, which is neglected in current literature. This is combined with discussion of current research on education and neuroscience, enabling the reader to build a truly informed and effective practice. Featuring a variety of examples and stories, it will prove a valuable resource to any teacher of the Alexander Technique, both active and prospective, and to practitioners of other modalities exploring ways to deepen their practice.

Theater and Human Flourishing

2023-02-07
Theater and Human Flourishing

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  • Author: Harvey Young
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0197622267
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

"This collection explores the link between theatre and human flourishing. It interrogates both the social good of theatre and the personally restorative work of a range of live embodied performances. It brings together the disciplines of theatre (and performance studies) and psychology, especially positive psychology, to explore the social benefits of theatre: creating community, encouraging interconnection, serving as a mean to reveal and share both healing and trauma"--

The Alexander Technique for Musicians

2013-12-02
The Alexander Technique for Musicians

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  • Author: Judith Kleinman
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 140817684X
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to the Alexander Technique, or to supplement the reader's lessons, the book looks at daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher?pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and the application of the Alexander Technique to instrumental and vocal work. Complete with diagrams and photographs to aid the learning process, as well as step-by-step procedures and diary entries written by participating students, The Alexander Technique for Musicians gives tried-and-tested advice, drawn from the authors' twenty-plus years of experience working with musicians, providing an essential handbook for musicians seeking the most from themselves and their art.

The Alexander Technique

2021-04-19
The Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Penelope Easten
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 1912085860
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 372

Our entire human structure is built for movement, for all aspects of life. This book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding integrated movement, based on the latest scientific models and practical explorations. Presenting a new interpretation of how Alexander developed his work, Easten covers twelve fundamentals of movement and shows how optimal movement is organised around sensory and spatial awareness, and our focus and goals. The book describes how to reawaken innate balanced movement possibilities. Up-to-date scientific research is woven into Alexander's concepts to give a whole picture of how the human body feels, perceives, and self-organises. Clarifying the functional anatomy that underpins the Alexander technique, this book explains how to utilize the power of the autonomic nervous system and spatial awareness to allow us to change old harmful movement habits and enable new body learning. Written accessibly and supported by illustrations and video demonstrations of techniques, this book is ideal for Alexander technique teachers and trainees, movement educators and somatic therapists.

Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice

2020-03-27
Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice

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  • Author: Sang-Hie Lee
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030374807
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 429

Performing Arts Medicine (PAM) is a growing area of specialization within the performing arts field, which addresses the multi-faceted health and wellness of performing artists. This sub-discipline within performing arts is interdisciplinary in nature, involving the expertise of performing arts educators and researchers, physicians and other health professionals. This first of its kind text appeals to a very wide audience that includes performing arts clinical practitioners and health science researchers as well as performing arts pedagogues and performing arts students. The first part of the text gives the reader an overview of the field and discusses over-arching themes and issues in PAM. Part two presents an array of music and dance research involving primarily case studies that address significant issues of concern for performing artists and have implications for pedagogical practice. Part three provides research-based perspectives derived from professionals sharing their in-practice experiences. Finally, part four describes useful PAM models of implementation supporting the needs of performing artists in different settings. Written by experts in the field, Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice is a valuable resource for performing arts physicians, educators and researchers.