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How the Alexander Technique can help you Improvise

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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The Alexander Technique

The alexander technique uses mirrors to guide students into the reality of being aligned. Often it's quite shocking to people to see what they look like, because we're all used to seeing ourselves head on in the mirror. i have an entertaining am exercise that really illustrates that for a performer. This time i'll use acting as an example. I'll ask somebody to perform,. whether it's scripted or not, perform a bit of a scene the way they would perform it. Then ask em to perform it the way somebody else would perform it and switch back and forth between those two until they're comfortable with it. And then drop the bombshell. Now perform it like yourself, but you don

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