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LANE KWEDERIS
Alexander Technique & Somatic Practice
Lane Kwederis is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique Teacher and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) whose work helps actors cultivate greater presence, ease, and freedom in both performance and everyday life. As both a performer and educator, Lane integrates the Alexander Technique, Somatic Experiencing®, and breath-centered movement practices to help actors release habitual tension, regulate the nervous system, and develop a more responsive, embodied instrument.
In addition to teaching at the Maggie Flanigan Studio, Lane teaches Alexander Technique through the Riverside Initiative for Alexander Technique at the Sapientia Initiative and serves as an assistant teacher alongside Teva Bjerken at The New School. She also maintains a private practice and teaches workshops in Alexander Technique and Somatic Experiencing for performers and artists.
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Philosophy
An actor's presence begins long before they speak.
How you breathe, move, organize yourself, and respond to the world shapes every aspect of your work. The Alexander Technique teaches that many of the limitations actors experience are not a lack of talent, but habits of unnecessary tension that interfere with natural expression.
My goal is to help actors develop greater awareness of those habits so they can move through the world—and their work—with more freedom, balance, and ease. By integrating Alexander Technique with Somatic Experiencing, students learn not only to release physical holding patterns but also to cultivate a more regulated nervous system and a deeper sense of trust in themselves.
When unnecessary effort falls away, the actor becomes more present, more available, and more capable of truthful, spontaneous behavior.
I believe that developing your body and nervous system is not separate from developing your artistry. As your relationship with yourself becomes more grounded and integrated, your ability to connect, communicate, and create deepens as well.
ACTING STUDIO NEW YORK NY
The Maggie Flanigan Studio is the leading acting studio in New York City where professional actors train for long careers. The acting programs at the drama school are based on the Meisner Technique and the work of Sanford Meisner. The two year acting program includes acting classes, movement classes, voice and speech for actors, commercial acting classes, on camera classes, cold reading, monologue, playwriting, script analysis and the Meisner Summer Intensive.
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Education
Lane is a certified Alexander Technique Teacher (M.AmSAT) and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Her training includes the Riverside Initiative for Alexander Technique (RIAT Center), Jessica Wolf's Art of Breathing, and Somatic Experiencing International. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory.
Her teachers include Nanette Walsh, Lori Schiff, Bill Connington, Jessica Wolf, Rebecca Tuffey, Caren Bayer, Eleanor Taylor, Teva Bjerken, and Marisa Michelson.
Experience
As an actor, Lane has worked across film, television, theatre, and improvisational comedy. Her screen credits include The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Broad City, Master of None, The Characters with Tim Robinson, The Rundown with Robin Thede, and Five Doctors. She was the understudy for Baby in the First National Tour and original Toronto production of Dirty Dancing and performs regularly with Assssketch, Upright Citizens Brigade New York's premier weekend sketch team.
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