How to Hack Your Next Audition: The Limbic Response

We all know the feeling: staring down an audition panel, we lock up, our knees and hands shake, our breath stops, and we’re in emotional free fall.

This is your limbic system going into hyperdrive. In the audition setting, when the limbic system or paleomammalian cortex kicks into action in the face of a perceived conflict, we experience the body’s answer to stressors from people and social interactions.

Meant to optimize our chance of survival, this primeval reaction activates our freeze, flight and fight response and might make us feel like we should do anything but sing opera.

While it is a natural and understandable response meant to ensure our success, at the heart of the problem is a paradox that there is no physical danger, but rather a threat of judgment or failure that all performers can relate to.

This course will walk you through steps to work with your limbic response and choose the most appropriate course of action to nail your next audition while honouring your internal mental and emotional landscape.

As performers, it is crucial that we understand the basic functioning of our vocal instruments and limbic brain, how their interaction impacts our daily experience and what messages we send to the outside world. This is essential for our understanding of ourselves as performers and auditionees, and helpful for audition panellists as well – ultimately, finding a balance between our vocalism and limbic messaging will provide us with advantages in auditions, lessons, performances, and our daily social lives.

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