Below you will find the March 2025 Virtual Conference Program Schedule.
Please note: all times listed are ET
Thursday
March 27th
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Start the BAC Virtual Conference with a review of the Principles and Concepts of the Alexander Technique.
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In this interactive workshop, we will explore how the principles of the Alexander Technique can enhance ensemble performance, improve teamwork, and help you achieve collective goals. The session will include a discussion on the benefits of increasing the stamina and bandwidth of one's awareness, a review of the principles of the Alexander Technique and how they relate to ensemble performance, and a dedicated question-and-answer period.
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This 75 minute class guides you through fundamental movement patterns that help improve balance, coordination, and establish a sense of flow and connection in your mind and body. Class begins on the floor with time to let go into the ground and prepare yourself to move in new ways. You will also spend time on your stomach and then come to standing to apply your refreshed posture to balance and stability movements. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in.
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Learn about how the AT can give help develop self agency through an interview and discussion with Hailey McAvoy, an opera singer who lives with Cerebral Palsy and is a current AT Teacher Trainee at the Balance Arts Center. Ann Rodiger will invite Hailey to share relevant experiences and then invite session participants to ask questions and share their own experiences.
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This class offers a unique approach to vocal freedom and resonance. We will delve into the principles of Cranial Sacral Therapy, understanding that the skull is not a rigid structure but a dynamic system of interconnected bones.
By exploring the subtle, rhythmic movements of these bones, influenced by the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, we'll gain insights into the delicate balance of the head on the spine.
We'll then integrate these insights with the core principles of the Alexander Technique. Through gentle guidance and mindful movement, you'll learn to:
Improve head-neck-spine alignment: Optimize the framework for optimal vocal resonance.
Enhance awareness of subtle movements: Cultivate a deeper understanding of your body's inherent rhythms.
Reduce unnecessary tension: Release restrictions that hinder vocal expression.
Experience greater ease and freedom in your voice: Discover a more resonant and effortless vocal quality.
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Discover what it feels like to be grounded in your body and mind, available for whatever the present moment holds. In this workshop, we will not only look at what it means to be present in front of an audience, but also how we can use that performance experience as a way in to finding more presence in our daily lives. The Alexander Technique can help us harness our unique story and vulnerability, unlocking the potential for us to be our most authentic selves, through joyful exploration. In this workshop we will also touch on how the Alexander Technique relates to mental hygiene and the path to self-discovery.
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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What is embodiment? What is it like to truly connect with your body as a trans person? In this workshop, we will explore what embodiment means for each of us and how to slow down and connect with our bodies in a deeper way. Through exploring concepts of choice, agency, and curiosity, we can find a deeper sense of embodiment as well as greater confidence and ease in our bodies and how we move through the world. Trans embodiment leads to trans joy!
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Learn to recognize signs of hypermobility in yourself and your students as a dancer (or any performer). Learn about how to manage those concerns in class, rehearsal, performance, and in daily life. Gain support in your own self agency in handling your condition.
Friday
March 28th
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Curious about the Alexander Technique? Join us to explore the basic principles of the Alexander Technique that can guide you toward finding a better balance and dynamic body posture. This class will help you begin to discover how to interact with yourself and your environment in an easier and more efficient manner. You will leave with specific ideas to help you approach your thinking and movement in your daily life. Translation will be available as needed throughout the class.
Alexander Tekniği nedir merak ediyorsanız, sizi ücretsiz çevrimiçi tanıtım dersimize bekliyoruz!
Bu derste, Alexander Tekniği’nin temel prensiplerini keşfederek daha iyi bir denge ve daha dinamik bir duruş kazanmanıza yardımcı olacak yöntemleri öğreneceksiniz. Günlük hayatınızdaki tüm hareketlerinize uyarlayabileceğiniz bu teknikler, bedeninizle ve çevrenizle daha kolay ve verimli bir etkileşim kurmanızı sağlayacak.
Dersin sonunda, düşünce yapınızı ve hareketlerinizi günlük yaşamınızda nasıl daha bilinçli yönlendirebileceğinize dair net ve uygulanabilir fikirler edinmiş olacaksınız.
Oturum sırasında İngilizce’den çeviri desteği sağlanacaktır.
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This class nurtures a deepening of internal awareness before extending that energy outward into movement. It begins with a grounding, lie-down practice designed to help you reconnect with your body and down-regulate the nervous system. From this centered state, we transition into a deeper exploration of embodied, improvised movement. Suitable as either a wake-up or wind-down session, the class emphasizes working with the body’s midline, fluidity, and the dynamic flow of energy across multiple layers—physical, fluid, quantum, and beyond. Drawing from the principles of The Alexander Technique and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, this class enriches individual embodiment while fostering a sense of connection within the shared, relational field of the group.
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An Actor's purpose is to bring life to a piece of literature. The actor begins in their own base reality; also known as the present moment. Learn ways of organizing your awareness and strategies to direct your attention to stay connected to the space around you. From the beginning when the playwright's words are memorized to the moment when you, the actor, steps before an audience; staying embodied throughout the process of rehearsing allows you to practice being in the present moment.
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The AT gives us the process and tools to optimize our practicing. Learn how to insert your awareness and thoughts in moments that matter the most. Recognize what it means to learn and change a habit and get a bit "messy" in the process so that you can emerge as a more refined and nuanced artist.
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Get together to chat and connect with other participants in the conference about the Alexander Technique. Ask questions, hear others' experiences, and meet people who are interested in expanding their awareness and improving their use. There will be an Alexander Technique Teacher or Teacher Trainee moderating the discussion to offer topics and answer questions.
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We will discuss definitions of speed, quickness, and time, and how these definitions inform how we express ourselves within our respective art forms. Movement and speaking activities will explore how to build awareness and understanding of speed from the lens of Alexander Technique.
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Join this discussion about how the Alexander Technique can be directly applied to the performing arts! This panel of Alexander Technique Teacher Trainees will share their experiences of integrating their body of knowledge about their artform with the principles of the Alexander Technique. Panelists are members of the BAC Teacher Training Performance Practices class, a weekly seminar at the BAC to address both the technical and performance presence aspects of presentation.
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Heather Gardner & Aldo Ruiz-Alonso
Presented in English and Spanish
As string players, we often finish rehearsals or long practice sessions in pain or even injury. We can feel frustrated when our fingers struggle to meet the demands of our repertoire or our sound does not have the resonance we expect.
In this on-line workshop violinists and violists are invited to explore mind-body awareness and discover how thoughts affect the body when we play our instrument. Through body mapping, awareness games and guided activities with our instruments we will find ways of playing that prevent injury and pain, increase left-hand agility and dexterity. and increase resonance and clarity of expression.
Como cuerdistas, frecuentemente sufrimos de molestias, dolor, e incluso lesiones, a consecuencia de practicar y ensayar. Podemos llegar a frustrarnos cuando nuestros dedos no logran hacer frente a las exigencias de nuestro repertorio, o cuando nuestro sonido no logra la resonancia que deseamos.
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This 75 minute class guides you through fundamental movement patterns that help improve balance, coordination, and establish a sense of flow and connection in your mind and body. Class begins on the floor with time to let go into the ground and prepare yourself to move in new ways. You will also spend time on your stomach and then come to standing to apply your refreshed posture to balance and stability movements. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in.
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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55% of communication is our body language, 38% is tone,7% are the words we speak. In this fast paced society we're often listening to respond rather than to understand. Communication involves speaking and listening. What would it be like to dial up our listening skills and explore how intaking information involves our entire body's participation? What would it be like to tune in to ourselves so that we could tune in to others? This is a skill usually mastered by therapists and performance artists but ALL ARE WELCOME as we should all be listening.
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Curious about the Alexander Technique? Join us to explore the basic principles of the Alexander Technique that can guide you toward finding a better balance and dynamic body posture. This class will help you begin to discover how to interact with yourself and your environment in an easier and more efficient manner. You will leave with specific ideas to help you approach your thinking and movement in your daily life. Translation will be available as needed throughout the class.
¿Sientes curiosidad por aprender acerca de la Técnica Alexander? Únete a nuestro taller y explora los fundamentos básicos de la Técnica Alexander, para encontrar un mejor equilibrio corporal y una postura dinámica. Esta clase te ayudará a descubrir cómo interactuar con tu entorno y contigo mismo, con mayor facilidad y eficiencia motriz. Este taller te brindará puntos específicos para experimentar con tus pensamientos y movimientos durante tu día a día. Contamos con traductores para apoyar a nuestros estudiantes según sea necesario.
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Get together to chat and connect with other participants in the conference about the Alexander Technique. Ask questions, hear others' experiences, and meet people who are interested in expanding their awareness and improving their use. There will be an Alexander Technique Teacher or Teacher Trainee moderating the discussion to offer topics and answer questions.
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Have you ever noticed that Japanese people pronounce foreign languages in a unique way (speech utterance)? Moreover, when conducting voice training for vocal music, we may find many problems in singing, even if the voice is good. I have noticed a big difference between Westerners and Japanese when I have been teaching Japanese people to vocalize vocally, and I would like to explain the changes that I have noticed in teaching them about this difference. We will look at the difference in the skulls of Westerners and Asians, changes in tongue and dentition associated with skull differences. methods of speech production in the Japanese language, influences in Japanese characters.(vowels and consonants), and much more.
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Curious about the Alexander Technique? Join us to explore the basic principles of the Alexander Technique that can guide you toward finding a better balance and dynamic body posture. This class will help you begin to discover how to interact with yourself and your environment in an easier and more efficient manner. You will leave with specific ideas to help you approach your thinking and movement in your daily life. Translation will be available as needed throughout the class.
您對亞歷山大技巧感到好奇嗎？快來參加免費的線上體驗課吧！授課老師將為您介紹亞歷山大技巧的核心概念，幫助您找到更自然的身體平衡，以及如何在日常生活中協調地使用身體。您將會學會如何更輕鬆、更有效率地讓自己身心和環境互動、改善身體使用、讓身體更自在。課程上你會學習一些實用的小技巧，幫助你調整思維和動作模式。上課時也會提供中文/英文翻譯喔！
Saturday
March 29th
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Join Ann Rodiger and Broadway music director Andrea Grody (Suffs, The Band’s Visit, Tootsie) for a conversation about applying the Alexander Technique to both conducting and piano-conducting. We’ll discuss how AT can help conductors communicate more clearly and expressively while avoiding pain, touching on topics like balance on the podium, where to motivate the beat as a piano-conductor, conducting with a baton vs conducting with hands, and more!
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The class will begin with a short exploration of the concepts of throughness and spatial connectivity. It is encouraged to experience the class without a barre or support, but not necessary. The structure of the class is a progressive barre that leads the dancers to a short center that includes tendus, pirouettes and some jumping. Please wear flexible clothing and supportive footwear.
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An exploration of the enlivening effects of the Alexander technique inside of scenes and songs. I am curious about using what we know from the work to find greater freedom and expressivity in the moment of performance. Please bring a short bit of text or music to experiment with in the workshop.
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This workshop will explore how Alexander Technique principles can enhance a wind player’s resonance, air use and coordination. With the flute as our primary instrument of focus, we will discuss how our bodies relate to its mechanics, as well as how these technical insights can be used to influence presence and overall consistency. Please bring your instrument, a cleaning rod (or similar), and a favorite short musical phrase.
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Get together to chat and connect with other participants in the conference about the Alexander Technique. Ask questions, hear others' experiences, and meet people who are interested in expanding their awareness and improving their use. There will be an Alexander Technique Teacher or Teacher Trainee moderating the discussion to offer topics and answer questions.
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Bryan Bisordi & Takehiro Shimizu
Learn how the Alexander Technique helps with playing drums with ease. Refine your sense of balance in drumming by reviewing how to sit and how to use your hands and feet with awareness. Activities with drumsticks will also explore how to translate concepts of balance to your playing.
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This experiential online workshop explores both sides of breathing. We will use body mapping, anatomical imagery, guided activities, and awareness exercises to expand our inhale beyond perceived limits. And by exploring the anatomy of breath, we'll discover how to use the breath more efficiently and with greater control, flow, and choice on the exhale. We will pay particular attention to the turn around of the breath (the “onset”) and how we begin to use the air to make sound.
This workshop also includes concepts of air flow relating to resonance and vibration, and a guided deep listening exercise. You will leave with new ideas about how to explore breath on your own and deepen your mind-body-instrument connection, further enabling your expressive ideas to be made into sounds through your instrument or voice.
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This 75 minute class guides you through fundamental movement patterns that help improve balance, coordination, and establish a sense of flow and connection in your mind and body. Class begins on the floor with time to let go into the ground and prepare yourself to move in new ways. You will also spend time on your stomach and then come to standing to apply your refreshed posture to balance and stability movements. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in.
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A discussion about Alexander Technique with a focus on brass performance and practice.
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A violin workshop on how the Alexander Technique can enhance mobility and reduce pain while playing the Violin with Q and A.
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This session will include a brief discussion on how lie-downs can be a restorative practice for musicians.
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The Alexander Technique offers many tools to cope with the common phenomenon of performance anxiety. Eliminating performance anxiety entirely is unrealistic—the reason it exists in the first place is because of passion and emotional investment. But symptoms can be lessened with practice, and with a better understanding of the many facets of performance stressors. Workshop participants will explore the current science of performance anxiety, build awareness of habitual tendencies, experiment with embodied management strategies, and practice channeling emotions into a more productive performance energy. By befriending the emotional and physical instrument and harnessing fear as a helpful passenger, a natural flow becomes easier (and more fun) in high-pressure environments.
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Get together to chat and connect with other participants in the conference about the Alexander Technique. Ask questions, hear others' experiences, and meet people who are interested in expanding their awareness and improving their use. There will be an Alexander Technique Teacher or Teacher Trainee moderating the discussion to offer topics and answer questions.
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This class is introductory Alexander Technique class in Japanese language.
I would like to explore how the Alexander Technique helps to daily activities such as walking, sitting and standing etc…
This class is open to everyone from beginner to experienced.
アレクサンダーテクニークのイントロクラスです。
アレクサンダーテクニークが立つ、座る、歩くなどの日常動作において活用できるかを、いくつかのアクティビティーを通して体験していただこうと思っています。
初心者の方も経験者の方もどなたでもご参加ください。
Sunday
March 30th
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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Curious about the Alexander Technique? Join us to explore the basic principles of the Alexander Technique that can guide you toward finding a better balance and dynamic body posture. This class will help you begin to discover how to interact with yourself and your environment in an easier and more efficient manner. You will leave with specific ideas to help you approach your thinking and movement in your daily life. This workshop is conducted in German.
Neugierig auf die Alexander-Technik? Nehmen Sie an dieser kostenlosen Online-Einführung teil! Der Kurs wird die grundlegenden Prinzipien der Alexander-Technik erläutern, die Ihnen helfen, ein besseres Gleichgewicht und eine dynamische Körperhaltung zu finden, die Sie auf alle Ihre Aktivitäten anwenden können. Dieser Kurs wird Ihnen helfen zu entdecken, wie Sie mit sich selbst und Ihrer Umgebung auf eine einfachere und effizientere Weise interagieren können. Sie werden mit konkreten Ideen aus dem Kurs gehen, die Ihnen helfen, Ihr Denken und Ihre Bewegungen im Alltag anders anzugehen.
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Your presence is a present! Explore how to take up space while being generous and even guarded when needed or desired. As performers or simply people existing in space, we have a right to be seen and heard. It's your call! Learn how to first and foremost be present with yourself so that you may be present with others. So that you can hold a room when the moment calls for it. The choice is yours!
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In this class, "courtesies" and walking will lead to short dance phrases to music such as bourrée, sarabande, menuet, and gigue. Through the Alexander Technique, participants will learn how to connect to a more reliable sense of balance and strength, the use of spatial support, and musicality. No corsets or girdles needed! Please wear flexible clothing and supportive footwear.
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Julie Frazier-Smith, Jessica Spira
Intentionally introducing a pause to our living-breathing-expressing selves as we face challenging stimuli can give us a chance to tune-in to our experience, to reset our nervous system, and improve our well-being. A thoughtful pause can stretch our sense of time and space and enhance our creativity. We look forward to exploring with you.
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Get together to chat and connect with other participants in the conference about the Alexander Technique. Ask questions, hear others' experiences, and meet people who are interested in expanding their awareness and improving their use. There will be an Alexander Technique Teacher or Teacher Trainee moderating the discussion to offer topics and answer questions.
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The Alexander Technique is the psychophysical tool that integrates all the others in the box: acting, voice, and movement training. It’s the how-to after all the work is done and instructors say, “now let it all go.” Designed for body, breath, and focusing on the art of self-direction, this class will teach actors how to release habitual tension and instead bring freedom, poise, and presence to performance.
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Singing higher and louder with beauty and ease are two of the most frequent goals of studying singing. Their elusive nature keeps singing teachers in business. Both singing higher and singing louder require increased energy from the human system. Often we localize that increased energy demand, which results in increased tension and a sensation of effort. In this workshop singer and Alexander Technique teacher Matt Cahill shares a step-by-step process for encouraging full body participation in the energetic demands of breathing, “supporting”, and singing in order to produce more energy with less tension and effort, leading us to sing higher and louder with ease!
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While often associated with physical benefits such as improved posture and pain relief, the Alexander Technique also has profound implications for emotional well-being. By reducing chronic tension and fostering a greater sense of bodily freedom, practitioners often experience a corresponding sense of emotional ease and resilience. The release of physical tension catalyzes a process of releasing pent up emotion. This unfreezing is a powerful opportunity to let old emotions flow and a gateway to a deep restoration of a more easeful and natural state of being. The nervous system can, overtime, shift from a state of stress and reactivity to one of openness and balance.
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How can you feel safe inside the inherent exposure of performance? How can you deepen your presence, sensitivity, and responsiveness while maintaining a felt sense of support? How can you stay soft and invite big energy and big play? In this class we will start by settling and organizing the body. Then, in pursuit of our inherent support through alignment, we will look to let go of unnecessary tension, thus opening ourselves to greater flexibility, empathic vulnerability, spontaneity and PLAY.
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This class will begin on the floor in semi-supine with small movements, then progress to larger movements. Along the way we will vocalize, noticing how awareness affects flow of breath and vibration in the body. Our mics will be muted to encourage playful experimentation. You will need: A yoga mat or surface you are comfortable lying on; clothes you can move in, a fabric strap or scarf, and some books or head platforms.
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Refresh yourself with a 30 minute guided AT Lie Down to start or end your day. Lie Downs are a recuperative AT practice that allows you to integrate your mind and body through releasing unnecessary tension, refining overall structural support, and calming your nervous system.
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The well-known impetus for the founding of the Alexander Technique (at least among Alexander Technique teachers) is that F.M. Alexander kept losing his voice in performance. If vocalism was so central to the inception of the Alexander Technique, where is it now in the study and practice of the Alexander Technique and why? Are we end-gaining our “means whereby” and primary control of the head, neck, back relationship at the expense of voice and all that it can tell us and teach us? Is the voice and its manifestation of our organization central to our work like F.M. Alexander, or not, and if so why not?
Panelists: Hailey McAvoy, Heather Gardner, Kerry Ryer-Parke, Pyeng Threadgill
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Join us for a final conversion with BAC Founder & Director Ann Rodiger to wrap up and reflect on the conference!
Click the link below to learn about and register for the BAC’s upcoming Fall 2025 Virtual Alexander Technique Conference.
Click the link below to access recordings from our Spring 2025 Conference Workshops, Panel Discussions, and Lie Downs.