Playing With Ease: Improv and the Alexander Technique
Taught by Christine Stevens
Want to play with greater ease? Learn how to manage anxiety that creeps in when you're improvising? Improve your listening skills? Have we got a workshop for you. An introduction to the basic principles of the Alexander Technique - an educational method for reducing stress and improving coordination (both mental and physical!) combined with its direct application to improv games. Don't worry, it will all make sense eventually. Just sign up. If you want to know more about the AT, go to http://www.missyvineyard.com/content/view/8/6/.
PREREQUISITE: None!
Still have questions? Alexander-technique certified teacher Christine Stevens answers 3Q's below:
What can students expect in the workshop Playing With Ease: Improv and the Alexander Technique?
Students will learn self care techniques for managing tension, both onstage and off! Plus we’ll play improv games to practice responding rather than reacting in the moment.
For people who have never heard of it, what is the Alexander Technique?
The AT is an educational method for reducing habitual, unnecessary tension, both mental and physical. The teacher uses hands on guidance and verbal instruction to improve the “use” of the student in an effortless, easeful way.
What do you love most about improv and/or the Alexander Technique?
What I love most about the AT is how both broad and deep it is - it applies to so many aspects of life and being human. What I love about improv is...see "what I love most about the AT.”
About your teacher: Christine Stevens has been a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique for 25 years and served on the faculty with the Brown/Trinity Graduate Program for Actors and Directors from 1999-2014. She is also a certified Ha-Ha since 2008. She currently teaches theater at Greenfield Middle School.
Taught by Christine Stevens
Want to play with greater ease? Learn how to manage anxiety that creeps in when you're improvising? Improve your listening skills? Have we got a workshop for you. An introduction to the basic principles of the Alexander Technique - an educational method for reducing stress and improving coordination (both mental and physical!) combined with its direct application to improv games. Don't worry, it will all make sense eventually. Just sign up. If you want to know more about the AT, go to http://www.missyvineyard.com/content/view/8/6/.
PREREQUISITE: None!
Still have questions? Alexander-technique certified teacher Christine Stevens answers 3Q's below:
What can students expect in the workshop Playing With Ease: Improv and the Alexander Technique?
Students will learn self care techniques for managing tension, both onstage and off! Plus we’ll play improv games to practice responding rather than reacting in the moment.
For people who have never heard of it, what is the Alexander Technique?
The AT is an educational method for reducing habitual, unnecessary tension, both mental and physical. The teacher uses hands on guidance and verbal instruction to improve the “use” of the student in an effortless, easeful way.
What do you love most about improv and/or the Alexander Technique?
What I love most about the AT is how both broad and deep it is - it applies to so many aspects of life and being human. What I love about improv is...see "what I love most about the AT.”
About your teacher: Christine Stevens has been a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique for 25 years and served on the faculty with the Brown/Trinity Graduate Program for Actors and Directors from 1999-2014. She is also a certified Ha-Ha since 2008. She currently teaches theater at Greenfield Middle School.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
The Happier Valley Comedy School admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
The Happier Valley Comedy School admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religious affiliation, age, ability, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
