Aug 7, 2017
006 Every Sing: Marieke Schuurs on Body Mapping and Alexander Technique
Marieke started to consider Alexander Technique and Body
Mapping after attending the Voice Care Network in Minnesota in the
1990’s. After, she started working with Barbara Connable on Body
Mapping.
Cathey Madden - Seattle Alexander Teacher, UW Drama
dept.
Certification in Body Mapping from Andover Educators and is a
certified Alexander Technique Teacher from Alexander Technique
International
At the beginning the teacher has to build a bridge from the
student’s understanding to what Body Mapping can teach
The Fundamental tenant of Alexander is that you have an
overall use of yourself, it might be really good, really poor, or
somewhere in-between, from things that you do, or habitual
postures. If your general use is poor, it effects everything you do
and everything you do is more arduous, more labored and puts
pressure on the joints. So the more you can bring somebody into
easier, smoother coordination then everything they do becomes more
fluid. Improve the core use and then everything else gets effect
after that.
In improving physical technique, unpack the habit (what are
the little steps). The word “singing” becomes the
trigger for the habit. On a neuro-physical level, as soon as they
think of singing their system goes into a whole system of
neurological responses. Our body’s do that all the time. The habits
start so fast that sometimes it can’t be stopped. To teach a
singer to be aware of the moment before they start, ask them to
think about singing but don’t start, then do it again, and again,
and notice the habits. It gives them the opportunity to stop the
habit and create new ones.
When you are moving well according to your structural-muscular
design, then the quality of your movement becomes easier, lighter,
and more fluid.
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