The F. Matthias Alexander Trust. Registered Charity No. 802856.Video Description
The actor’s network of stimuli: playing fully, playing with ease.
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Erika Whittaker talks to Sue Merry and Angelo Cinque about The Little School set up by FM Alexander to teach children his technique. Erika Whittaker lived in Strasbourg as a child where she took dancing lessons with Isadora Duncan’s sister. However, she said that she felt she was never very good being a large person and, she felt rather heavy and clumping.
When Erika was 16 (1927) her mother died and in 1928 she moved to London to live with her aunt Ethel Webb. Erika described how Ethel’s whole life was the Alexander work and how she feels she never thought of anything else. Erika now had lessons with Alexander and told me how her lessons with FM were tremendous fun with lots of laughing and joking. Apparently, he taught with the door of his teaching room open so that anyone who happened to be around could join in the fun. (Sue Merry)
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In this workshop Marjory Barlow demonstrates how to give a lying down ‘turn’. The group of teachers gather around the teaching table where Marjory works with Michael Frederick on the table, she demonstrates and answers questions from the group.
Marjory Barlow was F. M. Alexander’s niece, she took lessons from him and trained with him to become a certified teacher in 1933. Married to Dr. Wilfred Barlow, a medical doctor who was also trained by FM, they ran one of the earliest training courses in London. Marjory was keen to ensure that F.M.’s message was not diluted, to continue to preserve the fundamentals of FM’s remarkable work. Marjory was always keen to point out that the real teaching of this technique is only imparted on a one to one basis.
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Filmed at the 1998 STAT Conference in Manchester England in 1998 organised by Peter Bloch, this workshop was given by Walter Carrington to a large audience of Alexander Teachers, as was usual with Walter’s work, he provides a series of teaching demonstrations working with members of the audience.
Walter Carrington was a leading figure in the teaching and development of the Alexander technique. The technique was developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) an Australian actor, to promote wellbeing through awareness of balance, posture, and physical co-ordination.
For more than 60 years Walter made an immense contribution to the preservation and development of the teaching of this technique. With his wife Dilys they ran the Constructive Teaching Centre in Lansdowne Road London where they trained many of today’s leading teachers.
Filmed at the 1998 STAT Conference in Manchester England in 1998 organised by Peter Bloch, this workshop was given by Walter Carrington to a large audience of Alexander Teachers, as was usual with Walter’s work, he provides a series of teaching demonstrations working with members of the audience.
Walter Carrington was a leading figure in the teaching and development of the Alexander technique. The technique was developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) an Australian actor, to promote wellbeing through awareness of balance, posture, and physical co-ordination.
For more than 60 years Walter made an immense contribution to the preservation and development of the teaching of this technique. With his wife Dilys they ran the Constructive Teaching Centre in Lansdowne Road London where they trained many of today’s leading teachers.
The opening credits and introductory first few minutes of the Lugano International Alexander Technique Congress Switzerland 2008 filmed by David Reed.
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Freiburg Congress 1999
Yet to come: nearly two and half hours of master classes, workshops and more from the Freiburg Congress in Germany 1999.
Contributors, mostly in order of appearance include
Anthony Spawforth, Elizabeth Walker, Marjorie Barlow, Michael Frederick, Mary Cox, Tommy Thompson, Sue Holladay (née Scott), Claude AnShin Thomas, Purna Steinitz, Prof. Kevan Martin, Lucia Walker, Cathy Madden, Jeremy Chance, H.G. Brecklinghaus, Peter Ribeaux, Rivka Cohen, Jamie McDowell, Vivien Mackie, Martha and Bruce Fertnam, Steven Shaw and of course everyone who attended!
Update: please visit the Freibrg Congress category to see the new Nov releases from Freiburg – more videos to follow!
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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