Residencies


The Balance Arts Center is pleased to offer lectures, workshops, and week-long residencies to University Fine and Performing Arts Divisions and Departments in the Alexander Technique.
The Alexander Technique is a method of thinking and learning that provides a way of improving and refining balance and awareness and then integrating that expanded mind/body experience into one’s work.  Students learn to recognize how critical the artist’s own use and functioning is to their best and most skillful and expressive work. The Alexander Technique is directly applicable to all art forms.
The Balance Arts Center is adaptable to your particular curriculum and setting.  Several sample options are listed below to give you a sense of the possibilities available.
Whenever possible, several graduates and students from the Balance Arts Alexander Technique Teacher Training class will join the main teacher in giving the workshops.
Options
All of the options below work well for interdisciplinary groups and single art forms. Information can also be directed toward a single art form such as singing, painting, or photography if all of the students are learning that discipline.
1. Introductory Lecture/demonstration.
Sessions can range from 45 minutes to 3 hours.
Small group to large lectures are possible.  The smaller the number of students the more individual attention and experience each person will receive.
2. Weekend
Four 2-3 hour group sessions.
Session 1: Introduction to a large group.
Sessions 2-3: Smaller groups or art specific groups
Session  4: Continue small groups or return to large group.
3. Four-day
Each day will include one or two group sessions (dependant on scheduling) and each student will receive two private hands-on sessions in the four days. The length of the private session will be dependent on the number of students attending the workshop.
4. Week-long
Expanded workshop where performance students have the possibility of performing for each other at the end of the week. Each day will consist of group sessions, private lessons, and direct work in their discipline.
For more information contact arodiger@balanceartscenter.com

The Balance Arts Center is pleased to offer lectures, workshops, and week-long residencies to University Fine and Performing Arts Divisions and Departments in the Alexander Technique.

The Alexander Technique is a method of thinking and learning that provides a way of improving and refining balance and awareness and then integrating that expanded mind/body experience into one’s work.  Students learn to recognize how critical the artist’s own use and functioning is to their best and most skillful and expressive work. The Alexander Technique is directly applicable to all art forms.

The Balance Arts Center is adaptable to your particular curriculum and setting.  Several sample options are listed below to give you a sense of the possibilities available.

Whenever possible, several graduates and students from the Balance Arts Center Teacher Training Course will join the main teacher in giving the workshops.

Options

All of the options below work well for interdisciplinary groups. Information can also be tailored for students of a single art form such as singing, painting, or photography, if all of the students are learning that discipline.

1. Introductory Lecture/Demonstration

Sessions can range from 45 minutes to 3 hours.

For any size group – from a very small class to a large lecture situation.  The smaller the number of students, the more individual attention and experience each person will receive.

2. Weekend

Four 2-3 hour group sessions

Session 1: Introduction to the large group

Sessions 2-3: Smaller groups or medium-specific groups

Session  4: Continue small groups or return to large group

3. Four-day

Each day will include one or two group sessions (dependent on scheduling) and each student will receive two private hands-on sessions in the four days. The length of the private session will be dependent on the number of students attending the workshop.

4. Week-long

Expanded workshop where performance students have the possibility of performing for each other at the end of the week. Each day will consist of group sessions, private lessons, and direct work in their discipline.

For more information contact arodiger@balanceartscenter.com