Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists

<p>An educational method used to improve performance the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses maximizing effectiveness while also relieving if necessary any chronic stiffness or stress. <em>Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists</em> presents the empirical research of Cathy Madden a teacher and coach with more than thirty-five years of experience with the technique. She addresses common concerns such as concentration relaxation discipline-specific techniques warm-ups performer/audience relationships stage fright and critical responses and explores the role of the senses emotions learned behaviour human consciousness studies and neuroscience in the application of the techniques. </p>