Galvanizing Performance

Cathy Madden is the principle lecturer at the University of Washington School of Drama, as well as Director of the Alexander Technique Training and Performance Studio in Seattle and Associate Director for BodyChance in Japan. Kathleen Juhl is a professor of Theatre at Southwestern University where she teaches an Alexander Technique class for actors, musicians, and voice performers. Kathleen has taught the Alexander Technique at national and international opera festivals.

Galvanizing Performance has something for everyone from the novice AT student to the experienced teacher. With an all-star line-up of AT teachers contributing, the essays cover all performing arts disciplines and every teaching situation one can imagine.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Hands Last. Debi Adams, ATI Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique at The Boston Conservatory, MA, USA. 2. Full Embodiment: The Actor's Way. Sarah Barker, Alexander Technique Teacher and Associate Professor of Acting at The University of South Carolina, USA. 3. Confident Creativity. Corinne Cassini, AmSAT, ATI and Alexander Technique Teacher at Appalachian State University, Boone NC, and Angers, France. 4. Engaging the Expert Performer: Affinity as Pathway. Kate Conklin, Soprano, Teacher of the Alexander Technique and Fulbright Scholar. 5. A Mirror, a Mask and an Actor. Julianne Eveleigh, MA in Alexander Technique and Voice, Lecturer in Voice at the Arts Academy at Federation University, Australia; Paul Hampton, Actor, Director and Lecturer in Acting at Federation University, Australia. 6. To Learn or to Un-learn - That is the Question: Collegiate Performers and Endgaining. Harvey Thurmer, Violinist and Associate Professor of Violin at Miami University, FL, USA; Julia Guichard is a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique and Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre at Miami University in Oxford, OH, USA. 7. Alexander Technique Interventions for Stage Fright: An Interview with Michael Frederick, Founding Director of the International Congresses on the Alexander Technique and Teacher of the Alexander Technique at the Alexander Technique Institute in Los Angeles, USA and Elaine Williams is an Acting Teacher, Coach and Actress, and Senior Teacher at the Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Studio in Santa Monica, CA, USA. 8. Mindful Bananas and The Alexander Technique. Kathleen Juhl, Alexander Technique Private Practice in Austin, TX, USA. 9. Glimpsing the Collaboratives. Cathy Madden, Editor. 10. Report on a Five-Day Introductory Class for the University of Washington School of Drama. Cathy Madden, Editor. 11. Metaphorically Speaking: The Singer and the Alexander Technique. Patricia O'Neill, Professor of Voice Emerita at Louisiana State University. 12. Of Testing Times and Hoped-For Miracles: The Alexander Technique and the Doubtful Musician. Robert Schubert, Lecturer in Woodwinds and the Alexander Technique at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. 13. Is This Dance Made of Cake? An Exploration of the Alexander Technique in Choreographic Process. Crispin Spaeth, Dancer, Choreographer, Producer, Seattle, WA, USA.