Course Description

Performance anxiety affects dancers through underlying mechanisms and functions. 

By separating somatic and cognitive anxiety we take a closer look at patterns of anxiety and how practicing performance scripts can mediate anxiety in response to performance.

3hrs time valued on demand CPD. Includes 3 months access.

Course aims 

  • Define performance anxiety and its components
  • Delineate somatic and cognitive anxiety
  • Look at techniques to mediate somatic and cognitive anxiety
  • Consider how performance anxiety functions in your own practice

Course outcomes:

  • Understand of how performance anxiety can manifest in different performers
  • Reconceptualise performance anxiety as a readiness function
  • Conceptualise how somatic and cognitive anxiety impact on dance experience
  • Use practiced imagery to support a dancer’s performance
  • Formulate performance scripts using imagery

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Dr Shona Erskine

As a psychologist specialising in the performing arts I work with you on your journey to become the performer, educator or director you want to be. I develop bespoke and evidence based solutions for the challenges you face. The learning in Dance Knowledge works with the same principles I employ in face to face psychological services.Practice Fostering mindful practice to establish workable techniques and habits.Performance Achieving personal goals and acclaimed levels of performance.Artistry Harnessing and understanding creativity and talent.Resilience Building strength and flexibility through mental and emotional toughness.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Somatic anxiety

    • The brain and autonomic nervous system

    • ANS activation and somatic responses

    • Reconceptualising perfromance anxiety

    • Your own practice - arousal levels and somatic responses

    • The relationship between arousal and performance

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    • Your own practice - daily arousal chart

    • Strategies to achieve optimal arousal

    • Arousal and anxiety

    • Quiz 1
  • 3

    Cognitive anxiety

    • The thinking space

    • Your own practice - what if ...

    • Noticing your thinking

    • Your own practice - thinking

    • Imagery for emotions

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    • Your own parctice - imagery

    • Doing what is not important!

    • Your own practice - your performance anxiety story

    • Quiz 2
  • 4

    Performance scripts

    • Imagery-based performance scripts

    • Who

    • Your own practice - who

    • When and where

    • Your own practice - when and where

    • Why

    • Your own practice - why

    • The case studies

    • What

    • PETTLEP imagery and case study scripts

    • Quiz 3

    • Practice over time

    • Your own practice - writing and testing

    • To close
  • 5

    References

    • References for Performance Anxiety course

Reviews

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Selina Yap

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Thank you Luke and Shona :)

Hannah Scott-McNeill

I am looking forwards to consolidating this knowledge and putting into practice some of the techniques discussed in this valuable course. While I remember ...

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I am looking forwards to consolidating this knowledge and putting into practice some of the techniques discussed in this valuable course. While I remember successfully practicing these things as a dancer, I'm sure it will also help me achieve my goals as a teacher and my young dance students performance anxieties, particularly with exams and end of year productions approaching in the latter half of this year. - Hannah Scott-McNeill ARAD RTS (New Zealand)

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Edwin E. Vicente

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Janet Gittens

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Many Ideas

Shona Cameron

It will take time to think over and act on this, but well worth while

It will take time to think over and act on this, but well worth while

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