Playing with spatial directions in activity such as speaking, dancing and lying down in semi-supine. Finding presence as we experiment.
About this Event

Taking Our Space: Teaching AT to Actors with Penny O'Connor

Penny will teach activities/concepts, etc., from her recent book, Alexander Technique for Actors. In particular working with spatial awareness, which actors can use to find that illusive ‘stage presence", and which she also uses in her private practice to all comers, not just performers.

Open to all.

Please have a safe space where you can lie down in semi supine. And be prepared to dance to some cooool music.

Complimentary tickets are available to any teachers, trainees, and students who identify as Black, Indigenous or Persons of Color (BIPOC). Our community is enhanced by an abundance of diversity and diminished without it. Email us at [email protected] for your VIP code.

About Penny O'Connor

Penny O’Connor trained as an actor at Rose Bruford in the mid-70’s. An enlightened voice teacher suggested she take extra classes in a curious thing called Alexander Technique. It was a life changer. She grew in stature, found her voice, and was given the lead part in the final shows. She worked as an actor, writer, teacher, and director in community theatre companies such as Half Moon Young People’s Theatre and the Women’s Theatre Group. In 1992 she qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique and has been teaching this full time to fellow thesps and normal people ever since - in London, on the Greek Island of Alonnisos, and globally on Zoom and in person. She has taught Alexander at several London drama schools including ArtsEd where she was Alexander tutor for 18 years and is presently assistant on the South Bank Alexander Centre training AT teachers and post grads. She continues to work with actors in her private practice in Old St., runs on-line workshops ,and has managed to write a book about it all: Alexander Technique for Actors pb NHB 2021.

She is a member of the Society of Teachers of the F.M. Alexander Technique, likes running, mud-larking, reciting poetry and singing karaoke with Magnetic Fields on youtube.

www.alexanderpen.co.uk

Alexander Technique for Actors published by NickHernBooks available on bookshop.org and amazon.com

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