Courses and Instructors

INSTRUCTORS

Alba Emoting effector patterns are detailed and subtle, and can be learned safely and effectively only from a certified instructor. Attempting any of the effector patterns from written descriptions will inevitably produce generalized and inferior results. Training is available through scheduled courses (see above); individuals, groups, and institutions may also arrange for training sessions with Dr. Susana Bloch or any instructor who holds Certification Level (CL) 3 or above. Instructors teach individually or in teams, accompanied, when possible, by teaching apprentices.

Though teaching independently, all qualified Alba Emoting instructors are personally certified by Dr. Bloch or CL5 Alba Emoting teachers and adhere to a common set of ethics, objectives, and guidelines. Anyone not certified to teach the technique lacks the appropriate skills to do so correctly, completely, and safely. To seek or accept training in emotional effector patterns from a non-certified person is risky and inadvisable.

A list of certified instructors worldwide as of September 2010 may be found at:

http://www.albaemoting.cl/certified-teachers-and-practitioneers/

(if the link doesn't work, copy/past into your browser will)

SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT ALBA EMOTING

The Alba Of Emotions, by Dr. Susana Bloch, is in its initial English language printing, and now may be ordered through emailing e.stekel@buscalibros.cl or veronica.caviedes@gmail.com

"Alba Emoting": a collection of articles by Susana Bloch and colleagues, edited by Hyrum Conrad (CL4).
Many of the articles listed below can be found in this collection, available only by direct order ($25 USD):

Hyrum Conrad
286 Marianne Drive
Rexburg, ID 83440

Articles selected here are those in English that I have found among the most useful for introducing the basic principles of Alba Emoting. All include bibliographies that can lead you to more sources. (Spanish speakers are encouraged to use a search engine for more articles.)

Bloch, Susana.
"Alba Emoting: A Psychophysiological Technique to Help Actors Create and Control Real Emotions."
Theatre Topics 3:2 (1993)

Bloch, Susana, and Madeleine Lemignan
"Precise respiratory-posturo-facial
patterns are related to specific basic emotions"
BEWEGEN & HULPVERLENING 1992/1 31-40

Bloch, Susana, Madeleine Lemeignan and Nancy Aguilera-T.
"Specific respiratory patterns distinguish among human basic emotions."
International Journal of Psychophysiology 11 (1991)

Bloch, Susana, Pedro Orthous and Guy Santibanez-H.
"Effector Patterns of Basic Emotions: A psychophysiological method for training actors."
Reprinted in _Acting Re]Considered: Theories and Practices_. (Zarilli, Philip B., ed.), Routledge, 1994.

--Note: This early article refers to Alba Emoting as the "BOS Method", the original name for the system.

selected other articles:

Rix, Roxane.
"Alba Emoting: A Revolution in Emotion for the Actor"
in _Performer Training: Developments Across Cultures_
(Ian Watson, ed.), Routledge Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001/2002 ISBN 9057551519

--Note: This book chapter was written specifically for theatre folk with no knowledge of Alba Emoting, and includes comprehensive explanations of basic theory and practice as well as a chronicle of my process as an American theatre practitioner/teacher in learning and teaching the technique.

**EXCERPTS are available at albaemoting.org -- click on a link at the bottom of the page.

Rix, Roxane.
"Learning Alba Emoting,"
Theatre Topics 8:1 (1998), Johns Hopkins U. Press

--Note: This article assumes some familiarity with the technique and focuses on the process of training and application as it is evolving in the US; its endnotes do sketch in the basics, and the bibliography will lead you to more resources.

For an interesting discussion of how one actor-teacher blends Alba Emoting techniques with her Method background, see "Emotion Training and the Mind/Body Connection" by Dr. Pamela Chabora in the book _Method Acting Reconsidered_ (2000, David Krasner, ed.)