What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body
with Bridget Jankowski
Sunday, July 21
11AM-5:30PM
Tuition: $100
No audition required
Registration Fees
$35 if paid in full before June 1
$70 if paid in full after June 1
$100 if paid in full after July 1
Click here to register today!
Registration Fees
$35 if paid in full before June 1
$70 if paid in full after June 1
$100 if paid in full after July 1
Click here to register today!
What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body is a 6 hour course designed to set participants on a path of self-evaluation and change by discovering and refining their body map. The course is based on the premise that movement is required for making music. Musicians must become aware of their movements and think of both their music and themselves from a movement perspective. Body maps exist in our brains and govern our movement. If one’s body map is accurate, movement is easy and efficient; if inaccurate, movement is inefficient, often uncomfortable and can potentially result in injury.
Body Mapping is an essential component in music education and will help musicians have increasing pleasure and proficiency while becoming and remaining free of injury and pain through a lifetime of performing.
What You Will Learn
HOUR ONE: ABOUT MOVEMENT, YOUR SENSES, AND ATTENTION IN PLAYING and SINGING.
Training musicians’ movement by cultivating an accurate and adequate Body Map. Training sensory discernment and responsiveness. Training attention.
HOUR TWO: THE CORE OF THE BODY AND THE PLACES OF BALANCE.
The spine; the balance of the head on the spine; the balance of the head and thorax on the lumbar vertebrae; the balance of the torso on the legs; balance at the knee; balance at the ankle; balance on the arch of the foot; and the balance of the arm structure.
HOUR THREE: YOUR FOUR ARM JOINTS AND HOW TO USE THEM.
The four main arm joints; the organization of the arm; support for arm movement by a dynamic, lengthening and gathering core.
HOUR FOUR: THE MOVEMENT OF BREATHING.
Mapping the structures of breathing and the movement of breathing, including a dynamic, lengthening and gathering core.
HOUR FIVE: YOUR LEGS AND HOW THEY MOVE AS YOU PLAY.
The three leg joints; the organization of the musculature; support for leg movement by a dynamic, lengthening and gathering core; dynamic leg movement as support for playing.
HOUR SIX: HOW TO.
Individual work with instruments.
Requirements
Participants may be musicians of any instrument, age 16 or older.
The course will focus on the integrity of the body map of the participants, but will also include information on how to incorporate Body Mapping into your studio teaching.
Participants must purchase and read one of the Body Mapping text books before the class. A list of instrument specific text books and where to purchase them can be found on the “Recommended Reading” tab at the Andover Educators website: www.bodymap.org. Participants should purchase, at minimum, “What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body” by Barbara Conable, or “Body Mapping for Music Ministers” by Bridget Jankowski (available summer 2016 from GIA Publications).
Please come to class dressed to move!
Andover Educators is a not for profit organization of music educators committed to saving, securing, and enhancing musical careers by providing accurate information about the body in movement. Andover Educators use an innovative and specific technique called Body Mapping to enhance musicians’ abilities and to help those in pain or discomfort. Clear, concise, and practical information about how the body moves in order to make music is presented in the course “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body” or you can learn more about Body Mapping in private lessons with an Andover Educator.
Andover Educators train musicians and music educators to accurately support and enhance movement in practice and performance with the goal of increasing ease while reducing and eliminating injury. Andover Educators teach in colleges, universities, conservatories, and private studios throughout the world and offer professional development workshops for musicians and music educators.
All Andover Educators are musicians dedicated to helping other musicians and understand the struggles, both physical and mental, that musicians face in their careers. It is the hope of Andover
Educators that this method of teaching will encourage wellness and enhanced performance among musicians.
Bridget Jankowski is a pianist working in the northeast Ohio area as a church musician, teacher, accompanist and workshop clinician. In 1998 she was the first person to become a licensed Andover Educator after logging over 150 hours of training and study with noted Alexander Technique Teacher and Andover Educators® founder Barbara Conable. She is an original member of the Andover Educators Board of Directors and currently serves as the President of this organization. She is the author of the book Body Mapping for Music Ministers, available summer 2016 from GIA Publications.
She works with teachers and students on movement and technical issues both in her home studio and via the six hour course “What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body”. Her work has helped injured and uncomfortable musicians of all ages overcome technical limitations and gain greater awareness, ease and natural movement in their playing. She incorporates Body Mapping concepts into her weekly lessons with piano students, as well has her church choirs (children and adult), and cantors.
Mrs. Jankowski has presented Body Mapping workshops in several states and has served as a guest clinician most recently in a residency at Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, MI). She is currently the Director of Music at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Akron, Ohio and maintains a private piano studio with students ranging in age from five to eighteen. Her professional affiliations include Andover Educators, MTNA (nationally certified) and Ohio MTA, the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. She lives in Cuyahoga Falls with her husband and three sons.
Body Mapping is an essential component in music education and will help musicians have increasing pleasure and proficiency while becoming and remaining free of injury and pain through a lifetime of performing.
What You Will Learn
HOUR ONE: ABOUT MOVEMENT, YOUR SENSES, AND ATTENTION IN PLAYING and SINGING.
Training musicians’ movement by cultivating an accurate and adequate Body Map. Training sensory discernment and responsiveness. Training attention.
HOUR TWO: THE CORE OF THE BODY AND THE PLACES OF BALANCE.
The spine; the balance of the head on the spine; the balance of the head and thorax on the lumbar vertebrae; the balance of the torso on the legs; balance at the knee; balance at the ankle; balance on the arch of the foot; and the balance of the arm structure.
HOUR THREE: YOUR FOUR ARM JOINTS AND HOW TO USE THEM.
The four main arm joints; the organization of the arm; support for arm movement by a dynamic, lengthening and gathering core.
HOUR FOUR: THE MOVEMENT OF BREATHING.
Mapping the structures of breathing and the movement of breathing, including a dynamic, lengthening and gathering core.
HOUR FIVE: YOUR LEGS AND HOW THEY MOVE AS YOU PLAY.
The three leg joints; the organization of the musculature; support for leg movement by a dynamic, lengthening and gathering core; dynamic leg movement as support for playing.
HOUR SIX: HOW TO.
Individual work with instruments.
Requirements
Participants may be musicians of any instrument, age 16 or older.
The course will focus on the integrity of the body map of the participants, but will also include information on how to incorporate Body Mapping into your studio teaching.
Participants must purchase and read one of the Body Mapping text books before the class. A list of instrument specific text books and where to purchase them can be found on the “Recommended Reading” tab at the Andover Educators website: www.bodymap.org. Participants should purchase, at minimum, “What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body” by Barbara Conable, or “Body Mapping for Music Ministers” by Bridget Jankowski (available summer 2016 from GIA Publications).
Please come to class dressed to move!
Andover Educators is a not for profit organization of music educators committed to saving, securing, and enhancing musical careers by providing accurate information about the body in movement. Andover Educators use an innovative and specific technique called Body Mapping to enhance musicians’ abilities and to help those in pain or discomfort. Clear, concise, and practical information about how the body moves in order to make music is presented in the course “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body” or you can learn more about Body Mapping in private lessons with an Andover Educator.
Andover Educators train musicians and music educators to accurately support and enhance movement in practice and performance with the goal of increasing ease while reducing and eliminating injury. Andover Educators teach in colleges, universities, conservatories, and private studios throughout the world and offer professional development workshops for musicians and music educators.
All Andover Educators are musicians dedicated to helping other musicians and understand the struggles, both physical and mental, that musicians face in their careers. It is the hope of Andover
Educators that this method of teaching will encourage wellness and enhanced performance among musicians.
Bridget Jankowski is a pianist working in the northeast Ohio area as a church musician, teacher, accompanist and workshop clinician. In 1998 she was the first person to become a licensed Andover Educator after logging over 150 hours of training and study with noted Alexander Technique Teacher and Andover Educators® founder Barbara Conable. She is an original member of the Andover Educators Board of Directors and currently serves as the President of this organization. She is the author of the book Body Mapping for Music Ministers, available summer 2016 from GIA Publications.
She works with teachers and students on movement and technical issues both in her home studio and via the six hour course “What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body”. Her work has helped injured and uncomfortable musicians of all ages overcome technical limitations and gain greater awareness, ease and natural movement in their playing. She incorporates Body Mapping concepts into her weekly lessons with piano students, as well has her church choirs (children and adult), and cantors.
Mrs. Jankowski has presented Body Mapping workshops in several states and has served as a guest clinician most recently in a residency at Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, MI). She is currently the Director of Music at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Akron, Ohio and maintains a private piano studio with students ranging in age from five to eighteen. Her professional affiliations include Andover Educators, MTNA (nationally certified) and Ohio MTA, the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. She lives in Cuyahoga Falls with her husband and three sons.