How the Alexander Technique can help Actors, Dancers and Other Performers

With the best of intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique to untangle the wires has given me sightings of another way; mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.
—Alan Rickman

The resources below provide information on how the Alexander Technique can help actors, dancers, and other performers:

(Information about ways in which the Alexander Technique can help musicians can be found here.)

Alexander Technique & Performance Audio Interviews

How the Alexander Technique can help dancers

Actors and the Alexander Technique, and the Technique’s role in Theater Training Programs:

Other audio interviews about the Alexander Technique and performers can be found at the Alexander Technique Podcast

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Alexander Technique & Performance Videos

How Dancers can use the Alexander Technique:

How the Alexander Technique can help injured dancers:

Short video about ways in which the Alexander Technique can help actors and other performers:

Other videos about the Alexander Technique and Acting can be found at Alexander Video.

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Alexander Technique and Performance Books

The Actor's Secret
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Dance and the Alexander Tec hnique
Order Dance and the Alexander Technique from:

More Alexander Technique Books at the Alexander Technique Bookstore (USA, Canada and the UK).

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Alexander Technique and Performance Articles

Additional material about the Alexander Technique and performers can be found in the following articles:

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