The best performers make it look so easy. Everything that happens on stabe seems to come from the same place : this perfect connection between body and mind.
Every movement seems to be perfectly associated with the thought within the body. Yet performing in this way does not come automatically. It demands a huge amount of patience, faith and guidance. This book brings to bear Agnès de Brunhoff's wealth of experience coaching actors, singers and other performers as well as her own experience as a performer. She uses clear practical examples to set out the key features of her approach and how it can be applied, outlining her conception or performance as a balance between the performer and their art, and between the use of the body and the stimuli on stage. She describes in detail how she helps her students develop their talents and really come into their own aas individuals as well as performers. A truly original approach to getting back to yourself both on stage and in life.
Agnès de Brunhoff is a singer and classical pianist. She qualified as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1993, and since then has worked as a performer as well as teacher and trainer including at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, for the European Union Youth Orchestra, and at the Studio des Variétés school of performing arts in Paris. She now works in the opera department of the CNSMDP Paris conservatoire where she teaches the course : "The body of the performer on stage." In 2008, she opened the CFTAlexander teacher training school in Paris where she continues her research.
"When you are overwhelmed by the pressures of performing, this approach is a compass to help you get back your bearings."
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