Musician's memorise enormous amounts of music using kinaesthetic, visual, auditory and conceptual memory. So how does this process work and what we can do to enhance and speed up memorisation. 

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How to thrive and remain positive as a performing arts educator?  These  teachers explore how they have battled overwhelm and are able to bring out the best of themselves in their pedagogy.

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Mother Nature has given us an antidote to stress known as the Tend and Befriend Response which  neutralises stress hormones in our system.

The Tend and Befriend response can be a fabulous tool to assist developing performing artists to maintain a stable activation level for strong performance.  Listen to this episode to find out how!

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“our best moments usually occur when a person’s body and mind are stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile – this state can be called FLOW” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

Studies in dance, music and theatre have shown flow to significantly improve creativity, intrinsic motivation, teaching, performance artistry and authenticity. This week's podcast looks at how to develop flow in our student and perhaps in ourselves....

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Have you seen peer assessment build up some students and deplete others? 

Can peer assessment build self-efficacy for all performing arts students, when as humans we are biologically pre-programmed to cling to negative feedback? 

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In this episode we look at the second step to managing performance anxiety,  understanding  Activation Levels. 

How hyped or how chilled do your students need to be to perform their best? Should they all be the same?  Understanding their optimal performance zone and how to achieve it is the focus of this week's episode. 

https://performingartspd.com/blog/performance-anxiety-step-2/

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I can’t hear you! Do you ever have this problem with your students? of inadequate vocal projection?

This week's episode looks at a study in which singers' volume and tone increased by simply changing the focal point for the sound.

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Have you ever noticed that you can memorise some things easily and others you have to labour over endlessly to make them stick?

Recently I was reading an article on how actors are able to memorise and assimilate texts in such a short time space and with accuracy. How they do this feat was being analysed and successfully transferred to assist elderly persons suffering cognitive decline. 

So back to our students, could the way actors memorise lines in fact have some lessons that can help us all? Are there key elements that make a difference?

https://performingartspd.com/blog/Memorise-like-an-Actor?/

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Dance teacher, Susan Pope, developed a gratitude practice during lockdown which she then turned into a lesson plan for students. In modelling her vulnerability and sources of strength, she empowered them to develop their own movement meditation based on their experiences of gratitude.

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Was Gratitude  part of your self-care during the pandemic?

Today we look at the evidence-base for gratitude practice through a performing arts lens. Then next week we uncover a lesson plan created by dance educator Susan Pope employing her gratitude practice in a movement exploration and empowering her students to find their own. 

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