Workshops
This Fall
Overcoming Stage Fright: Pathways to a Peak Performance
Dealing with performance anxiety? Dreading your audition? Afraid you might sabotage yourself or crack under pressure? Instead, would you like to face your performances with confidence? Feel in control of the audition process? Achieve your goals? Successful athletes learn how to perform at their best under pressure…You can too!
Andy Matzner, psychotherapist and life coach and Meredith Glisson, a contemporary choreographer and movement coach will team up to share their expertise in cognitive and somatic practices. With both of their backgrounds in how the body functions in high-stress situations, this workshop will give approaches that lead to peak performances.
The body is a powerful tool. Acknowledging how your presence takes up space gives you an acute awareness and self-confidence in every circumstance but especially in performance. How can we activate the body while finding ease within situations that may cause anxiety? By studying how the body functions and positions itself, we can begin to set ourselves up for a successful outcome while allowing space for unforeseen potentials. If we understand the capabilities of our bodies, there can be a release of our vulnerabilities. Sometimes our weakness is our greatest strength.
The mental game is also key to success as a performer. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to instantly change unhelpful thoughts and feelings, which will allow you to feel calm, confident and focused both before and during your performance. You’ll learn a variety of practical strategies that will empower you to take control of your mental and emotional states. And in doing so, you’ll be able to access your full potential as a performance artist.
DATES
Sunday, September 29, 2019
10am - 5pm (1pm - 2pm lunch break)
LOCATION
Randy Warshaw Dance Studio
115 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10012
COST
$135 - Early Bird Special paid by September 1st
$165 - after September 1st
QUESTIONS
Meredith Glisson: mereglisson@gmail.com
Andy Matzner: andymatzner@gmail.com / www.andymatzner.com
The Performative Voice and Body Workshop for Actors and Dancers
The Performative Voice and Body is a workshop for actors and dancers who seek to integrate the voice and body into one cohesive practice. By acknowledging that specific disciplines inform one another and enhance a practice of expertise, this workshop will thread together vocal and movement practices to reach a peak performance. The workshop begins with specific vocal warm-ups to activate the body into motion. By focusing on the vocal qualities of projection, pronunciation, pulse, pace, power and pitch, the performer will progressively develop a movement language to match the voice. Movement concepts of rhythmic physicality, emotive incentives and situational scenarios will flip the approach in how to master vocal work and text. Time will be designated for each performer to work on a specific text and movement score. The workshop aims to give the performer a foundation in fusing vocal and movement practices while also building a confidence that allows the expressive performer to emerge.
The Performative Voice and Body is a workshop for actors and dancers who seek to integrate the voice and body into one cohesive practice. By acknowledging that specific disciplines inform one another and enhance a practice of expertise, this workshop will thread together vocal and movement practices to reach a peak performance. The workshop begins with specific vocal warm-ups to activate the body into motion. By focusing on the vocal qualities of projection, pronunciation, pulse, pace, power and pitch, the performer will progressively develop a movement language to match the voice. Movement concepts of rhythmic physicality, emotive incentives and situational scenarios will flip the approach in how to master vocal work and text. Time will be designated for each performer to work on a specific text and movement score. The workshop aims to give the performer a foundation in fusing vocal and movement practices while also building a confidence that allows the expressive performer to emerge.
DATES
Saturday, October 19th
12PM - 3PM
LOCATION
Randy Warshaw Dance Studio
115 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10012
COST
3hr Workshop
$65 - Early Bird Special paid by October 1st
$75 - paid after October 1st
QUESTIONS
Meredith Glisson: mereglisson@gmail.com
DATES
Saturday, October 19th
12PM - 3PM
LOCATION
Randy Warshaw Dance Studio
115 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10012
COST
3hr Workshop
$65 - Early Bird Special paid by October 1st
$75 - paid after October 1st
QUESTIONS
Meredith Glisson: mereglisson@gmail.com