Cannon Music Camp will once again offer courses in the Alexander Technique, an internationally respected method designed to increase performance ability through the discovery of ways to relieve performance anxiety.

Students are asked to become active observers of their personal coordination by performing such simple activities as walking, sitting, or talking.  As they become aware of the habitual manner in which they do these simple tasks, they are guided to apply their new observations to more effective performance in music.  As coordination improves they often experience new confidence in their performance potential.  Once this groundwork is established, performance fears can dissipate.  There will be no miracle, but a solid awareness of personal potential.

The student learns how the skeletal and muscular systems can function in ease and flexibility.  By developing more constructive thinking and learning to note useless tensions within activities, the student is freed to allow personal style to manifest itself.  Students are lead to take personal responsibility for goals, and by experiencing group sessions they give one another encouragement as to effective change.  What better time, than in their youth, to take a deep look at habitual patterns of thinking and moving, which may have already become counterproductive to their experiences and/or to their careers in the field of music.

The teacher is Jane Comfort Brown, a certified Alexander Technique teacher, and a Registered Movement Educator in the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.  Classes are tentavely scheduled three to five times a week.  Class size is limited.

For more information about the Alexander Technique, please click here.

As Ms. Brown will serve as a contracted adjunct staff member, this course carries a fee of $90.00 per pupil.  If you are interested, please print and complete the form below and mail with your check (payable to Jane Comfort Brown) to Cannon Music Camp, ASU Box 32031, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC  28608.
 

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