Tag Archive for the term: performers body

Check out the latest installment of The Performer’s Body over on the podcast page. This time round we hear a reading of Kristin Linklater’s thoughts on jaw-tension. The jaw is SUCH a deep place for performing artists – we are socially conditioned to use the jaw to control emotions, and as an artist trying to [...]

Hey y’all!! In digging for new ideas for the Performer’s Body podcast series, I stumbled upon some fun and useful links about performer’s health and wellness. The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine Musician’s Health Network Arts Empowerment: Healing the Artist Interesting Article on the health benefits of theatre for seniors The Health And Performance [...]

New podcast folks! Check out this excerpt from the collected writings of F. Mathias Alexander, genius/creator of the renowned Alexander Technique. Here the book’s editor explains the revolutionary challenge that Alexander faced: to introduce into common perceptions of physical work this idea of a “kinesthetic sense” – a sense, as important as any of Aristotle’s [...]

Check out my next installment of “The Performer’s Body” – this here’s a reading from Martha Graham’s autobiography, “Blood Memory.” Martha Graham was a genius of modern dance and of the practice of being an artist. Her writing is beyond incredible – this book is (or should be) a bible for any artist of any [...]

Check out my reading on the psychology of voice in my new podcast series, “The Performer’s Body.” Yay! This reading is from Patsy Rodenburg’s “The Right to Speak.” Patsy is a world-renowned voice-and-speech specialist for the theatre, and this book deals a lot with the psychology of vocal training and its physiological reverberations. In this [...]