Utilizing Mindfulness for the Performance Artist: How Mindfulness Can Help with Performance Anxiety
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Mindfulness has been shown to help reduce performance anxiety for athletes. There is also evidence showing that mindfulness helps to reduce anxiety and test anxiety in college students. However, the research on how mindfulness may be utilized by performing artists is not as well researched. For this roundtable session we facilitate a discussion on how mindfulness practices can effectively be utilized to help performing arts students. It will address mindfulness practices for the different areas of performance arts such as dance, music and theater. Collectively the discussants will uncover how mindfulness can help facilitate student success in the performing arts and beyond.
