Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Interview with Walter Carrington

In this interview Walter Carrington recalls how his training was the continuation of Alexanders training course when he died in 1955. With Dilys Carrington his wife, they worked as a team and at this point in 1986, the course had been training teachers for over 30 years. When asked about his interest in horses he recalls how Raymond Dart had told him that you couldn’t really understand human beings unless you considered other animals as well. 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.