BENEFITS OF THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD FOR ACTORS
Discover and explore your own unique habits and patterns of movement that you bring to any part without being aware.
Observe patterns of movement in others as well as yourself to increase range, detail and depth in developing different roles
Increase sensitivity and awareness
Find a more open and fluid connection to yourself and others
Be more present and ready ‘in the moment’
Have a clearer sense of support and how being 'grounded’ feels
Find out how to do less and ‘be’ more – not try too hard and get in your own way
AND OF COURSE:
be upright more easily,
improve breathing,
find greater vocal freedom
move with greater ease and grace and have a greater range of possibilities
recover from or reduce the likelihood of injury or chronic pain.
keep a better range of movement for longer in later years.
For
Actors
“Moshe Feldenkrais has studied the body in movement with a precision I have found nowhere else.”
Peter Brook (theatre and film director)
WAYS OF WORKING
Look on my workshop page for current workshops for actors
Invite me to do a workshop for you and your colleagues or company
Come for some one-to-one coaching in my studio in North London
Do any public classes - they all help!
OR LETS TALK OPTIONS!
Victoria's RESOURCES for actors
BOOKS and JOURNALS:
"Feldenkrais for Actors"
(How to Do Less and Discover More)
published by NHB
buy at a discount here
(also available in Italian and Korean!)
"A Sense of Safety: Polyvagal Theory, The Feldenkrais Method and the Acting Process" Chapter 10 in The Feldenkrais Method In Creative Practice" Ed. Robert Scholl available to buy here
"From the Coal-Face" (on teaching Feldenkrais in Drama School) Vol 6 IFF Research Journal FREE ONLINE
ARTICLES (from blog and newsletters)
-An Actor's Presence
-Finding Neutral
-Feldenkrais and Creativity
-No That Actor is Not on Drugs
-The Small Difference That Makes All the Difference
PODCAST: Victoria interviewed by Sarah Parry about Feldenkrais for actors
FREE SHORT AUDIO LESSONS: (to come)
