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Bulgarian Folkloric Singing: Feature on Bulgarian Television
It is hard to convey the utter amazement I felt hearing my name spoken on Bulgarian Television…
“All Together, Everywhere”
In this special edition of the Fulbright Newsletter, I share my journey of building my online courses with extraordinary all over the world.
Fall Calls…
When the air gets crisp, I have two clear instincts: HIBERNATE and GO ADVENTURING…
Costume, Movement & Mood
How what we wear can fit, inspire and enhance our movement and performance. Kate Conklin X Sumissura
Discovering the Truth Behind the Marking
Guest post by Rebecca Richardson on interpreting dynamic markings, action and honesty in performance.
Voice Care for Burning Man (and other tricky terrain)
Strategies that can be adapted to performers and humans of any kind…
Interview with Issue Magazine
Kate Conklin lists actors, singers, chefs, athletes and tech startups as a few of the professions that would benefit from the Alexander Technique – clearly, this technique is not easy to categorize.
Animacy, resiliency, reciprocity: Robin Wall Kimmerer
“… this grammar of animacy means that we have the linguistic structure to speak of the living world as if it were alive, as if it was a person, as if it were our family- because in our way of thinking, it is.”
Why I don’t talk about “stage fright” and “performance anxiety”
For centuries, performers – and now, the most recent scientific research- know perfectly well performers aren’t afraid of stages or performing.
The Role of Risk in Performance no. 1
A soprano and a high-diver get into a debate…
Cher on greatness
What could you achieve if you were willing to begin a discovery process?
I don’t expect anyone to care about the Alexander Technique- I expect them to care about THIS
The Alexander Technique is a powerful tool to do what Yo-Yo Ma describes beautifully here, often termed “deliberate practice.” That is it’s value.
Tom Waits on being stronger and stranger
“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story…”
Consistency and creativity
Technique, skill, consistency, quality and creativity.
Bigger Ears: How to recalibrate your listening
Listening exercises to get your ears in ship-shape shape.
WOOP. A powerful strategy to get what you want, overcome what’s in your way…and an app!
Mental contrasting is a process that helps you overcome inner obstacles and fears, and gives you clear steps to get what you want.
Soaring through leaps: A guide to navigating intervals
The metaphor I keep using for high, sustained passages that dip down into the lower range.
An expensive habit
There is a moment I sometimes see in a lesson or coaching that has a crisis of perception lurking behind it…
An argument for starting NOW
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” Madeleine L’Engle
Rerouting in the moment: The Bonaly
When the easy way out is a back flip. On one foot…
Fact or Technique?
A fact is something that is empirically known to be true, a technique is a way of doing or achieving something. One of the most powerful tools you can have as a performer is to know which one you’re dealing with…
The Goldilocks Conundrum: Just Right
What does “just right” actually mean?
What I wish every musician knew about the Alexander Technique
Yesterday I gave a two-hour masterclass for pianists. I said something that elicited gasps of surprise.
Mirror neurons and Empathy
” … we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently.”
Leaping Animals and Mirror Neurons
We are all natural born movers. We are all organized by the dynamic relationship between head and spine. And we have all jumped, bounded, skipped and sprung …This post then, is a big wheeeeee for your mirror neurons.
Performance Readiness: Guest Blog for Bar Exam Mind
A detailed process to get ready for an exam or performance of any kind. Re-posted with permission from Bar Exam Mind.
Responding to Desire
Talent is insufficient. Desire is insufficient. We have to choose to respond to our desire, and do the work that we need to do to support that response.
The wheel, reinvented.
Reinventing the wheel is unnecessary. Unless you happen to be quite interested in wheels…