How Do You Know When You're Ready To Perform?

How Do You Know When You're Ready To Perform?

Years and years (and years) ago - when Chancer was a young, sprightly actor (true story) looking for a part to play - I went to many auditions.

In one of those auditions that I got my first big lesson in humility and preparation.

I received the audition script ahead of time and worked on my character and learnt my lines. So far, so good. Most auditions were for TV ads, so I was not hugely committed giving a great performance. 

First mistake.

I got to the audition – still rehearsing my lines – and was ushered into a small studio awash with bright lights, a videocam on a stand, and a few dark and scary shapes on the other side of the brightness. It almost felt like porn; I was frightened.

"Go ahead..." commanded a disembodied male voice.

I couldn't remember my opening line!

Soooooo embarrassing.

I didn't get the job, and I didn't deserve to either.

I was only surface learning. With no other distractions, I could remember my lines. But when the demands increased – as they did that day - I discovered I was hopelessly underprepared.

Your craft develops through repeating rudimentary skills over and over again, drumming them into an automatic level of access; this leaves your creativity free to roam on other aspects of your performance and deal with the unexpected.

Body Mapping is the same – you can tell a person their arm begins at the base of their neck, and two seconds later they forget. It's not a one time message; it's a script that needs to be embedded.

And not only for the student, for the teacher too.

Learning the functionality of your human design is a constant practice – like any skill; it requires repetition. Each repetition goes deeper, enriches you. It informs your art and improves your performance.

I started using functional anatomy in my teaching from 40 years ago. I was lucky to have an inspired teacher – Don Burton – who brought the subject to life by teaching the practical applications of body mapping information.

BodyThinking Online is chock full of my experiences.

It's not a course you are going to sit down and watch through from beginning to end – though if you did, I think that's a GREAT plan – instead; you use BodyThinking as a personal reference point.

You use it to embed a profound understanding of how you are designed to move.

When rehearsed, your understanding enhances your ability to move your Self and others. And it takes practice. 

Readiness is all.

Making my Self familiar with this material has developed my teaching practice – I got faster at solving problems and helping students. 

Along with the full course, I am offering live sessions so you can explore applications of the work with me in a live session. You also have a chance to watch how others are using the information in their teaching through five past coaching calls I gave a year ago.

There are two examples of workshops where this information is helping students do what they want to do. The first with Chancer teaching the material to the public in Tokyo. The second with BodyChance Associate Director Greg Holdaway - an academic who dances - giving lessons to our trainees in Osaka.

This is a package you can keep for a long time – and keep drawing from it.

Just this month it's on offer - $140 gets you in, with four more payments to follow.

More about the course and the page to order are here:

https://bodychance.mykajabi.com/store/oTZvjLye