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Jean-Rodrigue and Kristof Konrad specialize in the application of the Alexander Technique to acting and musical performance in Los Angeles and around the world.

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Actors, directors, musicians, athletes, editors, animators, and members of the entertainment industry…

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 …have the opportunity to explore the basic principles of the internationally practiced Alexander Technique as it applies to their art and profession.

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…more flexibility and pleasure while moving, vocal clarity, freedom of expression, an improvement in muscle tone, increased energy and mental alertness – all elements that lead to heightened artistic quality.

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September 7th, 2011

Leonardo DiCaprio Finds The Physicality Of J.Edgar Hoover With Jean-Louis Rodrigue. January 2011

  Larry Moss has been coaching Leo DiCaprio for many years for such films as “The Aviator”, “The Departed” , and “Shutter Island”. When Leo was set to play J. Edgar Hoover in “J.Edgar” ,...

September 6th, 2011

Reza Sixo Safai stars in “Circumstance”

Reza studied the Alexander Technique with Jean-Louis Rodrigue as part of his MFA in acting at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television from 1996-1999.  He stars in Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz’s debut...

September 5th, 2011

Clémence Poésy applies the Alexander Technique to embody characters.

French actress Clémence Poésy enjoys international success for roles in both her native language and English.  She is known for playing the character Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films, James Franco girlfriend in...

September 4th, 2011

Sharon Lawrence makes practical use of the Alexander Technique at the Mark Taper Forum.

Sharon Lawrence, long time student of the Alexander Technique coaches with Kristof Konrad to deal with the physicality and the vocal demands of Maureen ( borderline personality disorder ) in Theresa Rebeck’s  Poor Behavior...

September 3rd, 2011

PETER HERMANN STARS IN “WAR HORSE”, TONY AWARD BEST PLAY 2011.

The Lincoln Center production, directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris,  has won the Tony Award for best play and a special Tony for “outstanding artistry” to the Handspring Puppet Company which designed the life-size...

August 19th, 2011

A TRIBUTE TO DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW AT THE DIRECTOR’S GUILD OF AMERICA, March 8, 2011

My long time friend, director Lynn Hamrick, invited us to the DGA’s heartfelt tribute to director Kathryn Bigelow. This was an unusually special and charged evening because it was part of their year long...

August 19th, 2011

FILMMAKERS FROM 88 COUNTRIES WORK WITH JEAN-LOUIS RODRIGUE AT THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS 2011. February 12-17, 2011.

Nine years old and going strong: The idea of the Berlinale Talent Campus has lost nothing of its freshness and international attraction. This is what Dieter Kosslick, artistic director of the Berlinale, said of...

August 19th, 2011

“PARACUSIA” STARRING KRISTOF KONRAD SCREENS AT AFI, February 19, 2011.

"PARACUSIA": A strange audio phenomenon is plaguing the four inhabitants of a small outpost on Mars. When the sound intensifies; breeding paranoia and threatening the lives of the crew, it’s up to their leader,...