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This study examines how singing teachers experience students' nervousness and performance anxiety, what physical and intellectual tools they use to work with it and how they have learned to deal with students' nervousness and performance anxiety. The profession of a vocal coach is a socio-cultural profession – they learn from each other, from their students and through individual studies and education. This study consists of three semi-structured interviews and two exploratory interviews. Qualitative interviews were chosen as method to be able to take part in informants' experiences and knowledge of the subject in a deeper way. Sociocultural perspective was applied as a theoretical angle. What can be deduced from the results is that vocal coaches work with students' performance anxiety and nervousness continuously. The interviewed experienced that there has not been much talk about the subject during their education, but that they themselves have found different ways and strategies to help students with these challenges. The result shows that visualization, the use of metaphors, bodily exercises, involvement of students in concert preparation, "tricking" students into learning, creating a calm, safe and humorous environment, de-dramatization, dialogue with students and self-reflection are used by vocal coaches as tools to handle students' performance anxiety and nervousness |
