Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure (Theatre Arts)

With all due respect to the author, this book is too strong and intense for me. Perhaps I read it too quickly ( and thus didn’t use it correctly?). Reading the book a few days before concerts actually exacerbated my performance anxiety. Greene’s book “ Fight Fear and Win” is more helpful to me.

If you are a musician, or any other performing artist, this is a must read - extremely helpful. Greene gives step-by-step instructions on how to identify and support the exact skills YOU need in order to perform at your best. You can use his website to take the performance inventory, which is even more helpful. Highly recommended!I am a professional musician and college-level music teacher. I use these techniques both in my own performance and with my students. Positive results that you can count on. Don't waste any more time feeling helpless about performance anxiety - get this book!

By far the best book I've read on stage fright and performance anxiety. I took a college class on performance anxiety and this was our textbook. I use the concepts constantly both in my own performing and in teaching. It's worth the money. In fact, I bought two books so I could lend one out and still have one to refer to.

This book empnasizes on how to manage your fear, stress, emotion and all situations that will not let you perform adequately. Mr.Greene gives some good examples on how to use your right side of the brain, the place where everybody would love to be. Also there is a series of questions that will let you know at what level of performace you are at that moment, and according to the score, he tells you how to improve on it. So all you people out there looking for a book on self control in front of an audience, this is it!

Everybody who does any type of performing should read this book. It will open your eyes so you can understand and control your emotions. To many time we subconsciously allow others or emotional situations two control us. This book will open you eyes to be able to control and enjoy your performances .

After spending my teens and twenties playing rock and roll, I began playing the cello at 29 and a decade later now play at a professional level. Along the way I have experienced plenty of psychological bruises in performance situations--which, thanks to this book, I learned were self-inflicted. "Performance Success" has provided me with plenty of "right-mind" ideas for dealing with performance anxiety, which I have tried out successfully on stage. If you've ever dealt with nerves before performances or auditions, this book is a must-read!

I bought this for a music class and was inspired by the personal stories found in this book. The dialogue style made it easy to read and easy to explore my own performance questions. Definitely worth reading for any performer, or even for the average person who has to do speeches or presentations at work.

There are really good exercises in here, but they're hidden within infinite chains of titles and subtitles and sub-sub-subtitles... On the positive side, this book is very well organized. The day-to-day training program at the end, complete with contracts to sign, was too micromanaging for my taste, but others might find it motivating.

The book is very useful despite the fact that practicing some of the methods suggested in the book clearly requires supervision from an expert. Thank you.

Good.

I don't always agree with everything that Mr. Greene says but that is not surprising.He is a plain speaker and does not beat around the bush.His Julliard credentials are impressive and so you'll feel inclined to at least listen to him.The fact is that I only experience stage fright when I play the piano in front of strangers (as well as in front of some of the people I know but not all). His recommendations do make sense in broad terms.What I am no so sure about is the sort of "coach" type pre game pep talk sound of some of his pet theories. I do recognize myself in some of his examples but I have come to the conclusion that my stage fright is almost exclusively due to my personal appraisal of my own playing ability and current knowledge level.I used to experience the same thing when talking in public. Today when I do speak in public I usually don't ad lib but speak about things I am perfectly familiar with. I have noticed that the same happens when I play the piano. If I know the piece I will not experience stage fright. If deep down I know that I am not ready yet then I will.So yes Mr. Greene's text was useful for introspection. In terms of really discovering anything about myself the book did little.I suppose a nudge in the right direction justifies buying this book.

Me lo recomendó en una conversación el afamado clarinetista internacional José Franch Ballester, que además da clases en el conservatorio.

Great book, really useful to concentrate and perform better both during practice sesdions and on stage.