Performance isn't Projection. It's Connection. | Elizabeth Garland | TEDxABQ

Composer and performance coach Elizabeth Garland talks about moving from stage fright to performing on concert stages in Vienna. Her TEDxABQ talk questions common advice given to sensitive, introverted performers about confidence. She introduces an alternative approach she calls Superpresence, which focuses on connection with the audience rather than projection. The talk is presented by TEDx Talks and was independently organized by a local community under the TED conference format.

• Elizabeth Garland's personal path from stage fright to Vienna's concert halls
• Questions common confidence advice given to introverted and sensitive performers
• Superpresence: a different approach to performing with confidence
• Performance as connection rather than projection

From stage fright to Vienna's stages, Elizabeth Garland reframes confidence for introverts with what she calls Superpresence. Elizabeth Garland is an international composer, performer, educator, and performance coach who has performed at the World Composers Concert in Vienna, served as artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and won honors including First Prize in the Unsigned Only Instrumental Competition. Her writing appears in the bestselling Power of Why series. Drawing on her own journey from stage fright to Vienna's concert halls, Elizabeth's talk challenges what sensitive, introverted performers are typically told about confidence — and introduces a different way forward she calls Superpresence. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx