Performance and Presentation Skills
Learn how to be cool, calm and collected in performance
- "This course has given much to think about and follow on with."
- "The support I gained and the tools I was taught were great and will really stick with me… Well worth it, loved every second!"
- "All the tools are fabulous and useful."
- "The whole course was excellent! I loved how Louise made everyone very comfortable and there was a great dynamic and approach to learning in the group All the techniques we learnt have been valuable in developing my confidence as a stage performer."
This 7-week workshop is open to all musicians who want to overcome performance anxiety and explore, understand and expand their skills in performing confidently. Come and experience the underlying dynamics inherent in presenting to an audience. Learn not only how to shape these dynamics creatively but also how to enjoy them!
Participants will come away with new tools that will equip them to make performance choices that are creative, authentic and powerful, connecting the performer to the audience. The aim is for you to develop the capacity to face an audience and feel good in the process!
Dates - please note change to previously advertised dates
Monday evenings, 6.00pm - 8.30pm
14, 21 & 28 May
4, 18 & 25 June
2 July
(no class 11 June: Queen's Birthday Holiday)
Cost
$355 inc GST
20% discount offered to University of Melbourne students and staff
10% discount offered to University of Melbourne alumni (including VCA alumni)
Enrolments
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Objectives and Structure
Utilizing the tools of the Michael Chekhov technique, a technique that trains the imagination and the body to fulfill its potential, this course aims to deepen and develop an understanding and familiarity of the performer’s relationship with their audience.
Physical exercises are used to release tension and open up to the playful possibilities of performance. Participants will have the opportunity to work with psychological gestures to further challenge and strengthen their performance persona, and to gain the most empowering attitude and state of mind prior to and during performance.
Please bring comfortable clothing.
Teacher: Louise O'Dwyer
Louise is an actor, musician and registered teacher with 20 years experience including performing in theatre productions in Melbourne and New York, teaching drama to high school students and playing music gigs in Australia and Spain. She is passionate about performance and uses her training and experience in education and the Michael Chekhov technique to present a unique body of workshops centered around public speaking and performing skills.
Venue
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
The University of Melbourne
Gate 12, Royal Parade
Parkville VIC 3010
