The F. Matthias Alexander Trust. Registered Charity No. 802856.Video Description
This video was made between 1993 and 1996 with the support from the Trust.
“The Adventures of Leg and his Companion, Voice, and how they were led into Debauchery and Deprivation and their Redemption, thence into Proper Function”.
Michael McCallion dedicated his life to understanding and teaching others how to maximise the use of their voice. From nuns to lawyers, auctioneers and budding actors, a steady stream of professionals knocked at his door during the 45 years that spanned his career. For Michael, there was no case of stage fright so severe that it could not be overcome, no voice too quiet to reach the back of an auditorium. Michael’s passionate interest in text, acting and voice was enhanced by his wife’s teaching of the Alexander technique, as they worked together developing the holistic system of voice use. With its insistence on the correct functioning of the head-neck-spine relationship, together with its use of mental direction and inhibition of habitual responses to stimuli, this way of working provides the means whereby the real choice in behaviour may be restored to the performer.
Filmed at the STAT Conference in Bristol in 2001, Tony Spawforth gives a workshop for teachers of the technique which includes teaching demonstrations. Tony began his teacher training with FM Alexander himself and following FM’s death in 1955 went on to work with Edward Gellatly and Peggy Williams as qualified teachers at Walter and Dilys Carrington’s school which opened in Lansdowne Road in 1958.
This workshop was presented for Teachers and Student Teachers of the Alexander Technique and explores the connection between the Alexander Technique and the Use of The Eyes. Mary Simpkins was a member of the International Association of Colour Therapists and elected to the Register of Complimentary Practitioners. Jean Clark became an Alexander teacher in 1969. She co-directed a teacher training course in North London for nine years and subsequently ran her own training course for three years. Throughout her years of private teaching she has also been a visiting teacher in schools and congresses of the Alexander Technique throughout the world.
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This workshop was part of a series where Jean works with Alexander Teachers to explore Raymond Dart’s ideas of human developmental movement (please reference pages 49-54 of Dart’s book “Skill and Poise”). This workshop explores early some of our very earliest developmental movement and is called “From Semi-Foetal to Fully Supine”. Jean qualified as an Alexander Teacher in 1969 after training with Walter and Dilys Carrington. She co-directed a teacher training course in North London for nine years and subsequently ran her own training course for three years. Throughout her years of private teaching she has also been a visiting teacher in schools and congresses of the Alexander Technique throughout the world. She has a particular interest in the work of Professor Raymond Dart on developmental movement and how it correlates with Alexander’s discoveries.
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