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Alexander Technique for the Actor II

Learn how to invite ease and confidence into your acting with the Alexander Technique at The Barrow Group Acting School. Discover how to unload habits, heighten awareness, and strengthen your breathing coordination for a healthier voice. Prerequisite: Alexander I.

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  • 18 and older
  • $395
  • 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY
  • 18 hours over 9 sessions
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  • $395
  • The Barrow Group Acting School (HK) @ 520 8th Avenue Ste 901, New York, NY 10018
  • 18 hours over 9 sessions
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What you'll learn in this alexander class:

The Alexander Technique offers a set of skills and insights about how we think, move and breathe by connecting us through our senses to our thoughts, feelings and actions. As actors and performing artists, we can use this method to invite more ease into our preparation instead of stiffness or tension. We can experience confidence in our posture, our gestures and our voices; our overall way of being. Alexander Technique is useful for unloading the habits we unknowingly carry into our acting. An attitude of curiosity and experimentation opens us up, making the resiliency of body and mind more accessible -- this is the essential core of Alexander’s principles.

Through guided experience, the Alexander Technique brings you into a collaborative, playful relationship with your natural design for movement -- freeing up your creativity and releasing tension. Body language is an essential aspect of how we communicate. Postural tone, for example, tells us so much about ourselves as it reveals our inner dialogue to others. Use of the Alexander Technique can heighten awareness of our responses to thoughts, feelings and the meaning of the words we use.

As you learn more about your anatomical design for breathing, you will gain key skills for sensing changes in your breath as reflective of your thoughts. Insights into patterns of behavior and emotions are revealed through awareness of breathing patterns. The Alexander Technique offers ways to free yourself from habitual patterns without forcefully manipulating your breath. As you develop a dependable sense of center you will strengthen your breathing coordination naturally. The Alexander work is particularly useful in preparation for using your voice in a healthy manner. You will learn to confidently speak on your breath.

Classwork will include:

  • Continued exploration of the principles and practice from Alexander Technique, level I
  • Further development of sensory awareness and observational skills
  • Improvisations to highlight and build playful resiliency and confidence
  • Speaking more freely on the breath
  • Preparatory work toward character transformation
  • How to effectively use feedback when making adjustments in scene work
  • Individual attention and hands-on guidance.
Prerequisite: Alexander Technique for the Actor I

Refund Policy

All payments are non-refundable (unless the school cancels the class). 

Commitment is for the duration of the session. There are no credits or refunds for individual missed classes. If you discontinue any class before the ending date of the session, you forfeit your fee.

  • If you need to cancel a full class session (the full 6, 8, or 10 week class) for any reason, you must notify us by email at [email protected] at least business days before the registered class start date, and we will apply a credit to your account for a future class. Credits are valid for one-year.
  • If a student wishes to transfer to a different class, they must notify us by email at [email protected] at least business days before the first day of the registered class. No transfers will be allowed after this.

A student may not transfer to a different class once a class has begun.

The school reserve the right to change teachers at any time.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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The Barrow Group Acting School

Founded in 1986, The Barrow Group is an award winning non-profit Off-Broadway theatre company, acting studio/school & arts center located in the heart of New York City.

The Barrow Group Acting School/Studio offers courses in acting and directing.

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