When you add AT to your toolbox - magic is always available!
"Teaching performers is about applying this work to highly skilled excitation in the service of the extraordinary."
--from Cathy Madden Keynote Address to the Alexander Technique and Performing Arts Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2012
--from Cathy Madden Keynote Address to the Alexander Technique and Performing Arts Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2012
|
When I became a teacher of the Alexander Technique it was as natural as it was necessary to make the technique the basis for performance coaching. As a performing artist, of any kind, you and your teachers, colleagues and directors will ask for end results: more presence, greater range and fuller expression.
|
When I, in the past, more or less blindly hoped that I could create that sort of result through: continuing to do what 'felt' right, hoping that what I had learnt so far was somewhat integrated, and let the 'magic' take place, I now have a practical and always evolving process to use in relationship to the demands on me as a performer. It usually took a lot longer for me to change something I was struggling with, if I solved it at all to a level where I could trust that the result was close to what I wanted to reach. It used to feel like luck if something worked. The problem was partly that I always, whatever the goal was, had a better image of that, than the way there, so I focused on the end result instead of the means I had to engage in the process towards the goal.
When I added the Alexander Technique to my toolbox I was able to get out of my own way so that my intentions and efforts could be clear throughout any process. It contributed to a deeper trust, and reliability rather than just a surface hope, that the magic would happen, and it was now backed by integrated skill and precision.
Magic is another name for whole relational communication with yourself, your partner (or your instrument) and the audience in the moment; performance alchemy. This kind of communication begins with the question - HOW can I create the conditions needed for my desired result to be possible? You cannot create results, only conditions for something to be able to happen - the rest is action in the now and trust.
So it begins with you, ALL OF YOU, here and now!
~ Kajsa Ingemansson
When I added the Alexander Technique to my toolbox I was able to get out of my own way so that my intentions and efforts could be clear throughout any process. It contributed to a deeper trust, and reliability rather than just a surface hope, that the magic would happen, and it was now backed by integrated skill and precision.
Magic is another name for whole relational communication with yourself, your partner (or your instrument) and the audience in the moment; performance alchemy. This kind of communication begins with the question - HOW can I create the conditions needed for my desired result to be possible? You cannot create results, only conditions for something to be able to happen - the rest is action in the now and trust.
So it begins with you, ALL OF YOU, here and now!
~ Kajsa Ingemansson
|
Reasons for going out of coordination as a performer is often connected to one of the aspects below.
|
|