Freiburg Congress 1999 – Michael Frederick

Michael Frederick Presents Walter Carrington’s Talk : Alexander and Emotion

In this film Michael D. Frederick reads a talk written by Walter Carrington, this was presented to a large audience at the 6th International Congress for The Alexander Technique in Freiberg in 1999.

Walter Carrington was a leading figure in the teaching and development in Britain of the Alexander technique, the system evolved by the Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) to promote wellbeing through awareness of balance, posture, and physical co-ordination. For more than 60 years Carrington made an immense contribution to the preservation and development of the teaching of the technique. With his wife Dilys they ran the Constructive Teaching Centre in Lansdowne Road London where they trained many of today’s leading teachers

Michael D. Frederick is the Founding Director of the International Congresses on the Alexander Technique, he is currently Chairman of the Alexander International Congress Board of Directors. Michael has organized and taught over 150 workshops in the U.S. and Europe since 1978. Michael worked for two years at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, and taught for over a decade in The Old Globe Theatre’s MFA Acting Program at the University of San Diego. From 1994 to 2000, Michael organised Alexander Technique Master Classes with Elisabeth Walker and Marjory Barlow (F.M. Alexander’s niece) in San Francisco, Basel, and Paris.