Alexander Technique Center - Philadelphia

and Skippack, Montgomery County, PA

 

Mary McCann, Certified Alexander Teacher

Actor Toolbox Basics©

Creating Original Character

Text & Alexander Technique Intensive

Sundays, April 27th and May 4th

12 - 4pm

2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia

Contact

Mary - ma2mcca@aol.com (215 520 0832) or

April – playafs@yahoo.com (215 882 2600)

Certified Alexander instructor, Mary McCann, and April Feld Sandor of Simply Shakespeare, are offering artists a remarkable opportunity to brush up on techniques and take your work to the next level. This intensive offers one-on-one attention and hands-on application in discovering your habits, your choices, and your talents in creating fully supported believable characters. We will work together to strengthen the integration of movement, voice and theatre technique, using text of YOUR CHOICE -- either a new audition piece you wish to work on OR a dream role you dare to put into the universe. Read more

What People Are Saying... about the Alexander Technique

At the Wilma Studio School Open House last night, I watched in semi-amazement as one person after another would glide away from Mary McCann's massage table with the same serene grin on their face. They all seemed amazed by how transformed they were after just 10 minutes with Mary. "I'm so relaxed right now," "she's incredible," and "WOW..." were some of the comments I heard...

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE is an essential component of most actor training programs. Mary McCann has a rare and magical gift. --Anne K. Holmes, Education Director, The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA

WHAT IS IT?
Alexander Technique helps actors to become more comfortable inside their bodies by identifying and eliminating the places of stored tension...Mary teaches her students to recognize where those places are, and empowers them with specific techniques for releasing those points of tension themselves.

So maybe it's time to treat yourself...

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE CLASS

Alexander Technique for Actors and Performers
Wilma Theater Studio School
Broad & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia

For more information contact Mary at 215-520-0832

 

The Alexander Technique is peak performance training for actors, performers, business leaders, public speakers, and anyone looking to enhance their physical energy, mental clarity and focus.  Using a variety of exercises and proper body alignment, students learn how to eliminate excess tension and increase energy and confidence.

About the Instructor: Mary McCann trained as a professional actress with Broadway actor and director, Gordon Phillips. She has been a certified Alexander Technique instructor since 1988. Over the past nineteen years, Mary has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard University Summer School Acting Program; taught acting and the Alexander Technique at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia and served as Alexander Technique Coach for the National Tour of Family Secrets. Mary teaches master classes and group workshops at DeSales University, Bryn Mawr College, Simply Shakespeare, the YMCA and other institutions. She leads corporate retreats and stress management seminars and offers performance coaching for business leaders, CEOs, healthcare professionals and others.

Contact information: Mary's studio is located in Manayunk, just 15 minutes from Center City, Philadelphia. She also teaches in Skippack, PA. For information about Alexander Technique private lessons and group workshops with Mary McCann, please call: (215)-520-0832 or contact her by E-mail at ma2mcca@aol.com.

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For more information about the Alexander Technique, click here for
The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique