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The Performing Self: CPD for Teachers of the Alexander Technique interested in working with Dancers and Movers
Presenters include: John Hunter, Alex Howard, Niamh Dowling and Korina Biggs
Date:Saturday, 12 October 2013 from 09:30 to 17:30 (BST)
Fee:
£70.00
Venue:
The Meeting Room
Friends Meeting House
8 Hop Gardens
Covent Garden
WC2N 4EH
Booking: https://performingself.eventbrite.co.uk/
Alex Howard: Cultivating a dancers experience
Alex Howard: trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance (now LCDS) in the 1970's and in Alexander Technique with Dick and Elizabeth Walker in Oxford in the late 1980's. Since that time she has engaged in Alexander Technique and in dance, sometimes separately, sometimes together and often with the influence of one on the other. For some years now, her interest has been to bring dancers into gardens where the cultivation of the garden meets the cultivation of the physical Self of the dancer. She is currently a visiting lecturer at LCDS where she introduces Alexander Technique to first year students.
'The focus of this presentation will be on what a dancer brings to the Alexander Technique lesson. It is offered in the spirit of an ongoing enquiry based on my experiences of introducing AT to vocational dance students. By looking at the young, contemporary dancers’ concerns, expectations and movement experiences we can raise appropriate ways of introducing a practice of Alexander Technique into their training and note areas of benefit. We will touch on the experiences associated with three approaches more or less familiar to dance students – the ‘how to’ of set dance movement, witnessing and giving value to the wisdom of the body of somatic techniques and creating the conditions out of which movement arises with the Alexander Technique.'
Niamh Dowling: Moving into Balance
Niamh Dowling: is Head of School of Performance at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. She has worked extensively and internationally as a Movement Director, leading workshops in UK, Europe, USA, Asia, South and Central America and Russia. Niamh trained as a teacher of The Alexander Technique with Don Burton at Fellside Alexander School and has trained in movement with Monika Pagneux in Paris and Ann Bogart, Nancy Topf and Eva Karczag in New York. She has collaborated closely with Teatr Piesn Kozla in Poland for the past ten years. With a holistic approach to performance training, Niamh is one of the practitioners on the recently launched online Routledge Performance Archive.
'This workshop will focus on two particular aspects of the dancers work. With an underpinning in the principles of the Alexander Technique participants will follow a journey from experiential anatomy through to movement in order to deepen their understanding of connecting the arms into the back and subsequently moving into balance. Participants will look at ways to maintain the Alexander conditions working with a moving partner.'
John Hunter: Fluidity in Movement
John Hunter: John qualified with Misha Magidov in 1984 and subsequently had lessons with Patrick MacDonald, Peggy Williams, Marjory Barlow, Margeret Goldie and Erika Whittaker. He has been involved in teacher-training and post-graduate training in the UK and overseas for over twenty years and is currently Head of Training at the Westminster Alexander Training Course. He has explored ballroom dancing, Argentinian Tango, Tai Chi, Qigong and other forms of dance and movement.
'An Alexander teacher does not have to be a dancer or movement specialist to be able to teach pupils to apply the Technique to dance or movement. However, it is helpful to recognise some basic facts about the application of Alexander’s ideas to movement. The “angle-poise lamp” model (the primary postural pulls of head against hips against knees) works fine for sitting, standing and bending movements, but for any kind of dance or expressive movement, a fluid approach – also true to principle – is more apt.
In this workshop we will explore how freeing the neck and allowing the head to go forward and up leads naturally into movement. The head leads, but the power – the “motive force” - comes from the back; a major factor is maintaining fluidity in movement is the natural counter rotation of the upper and lower parts of the torso. Using observation and hands-on work we will investigate how to find fluidity in movement applied to the acts of walking, dance and other kinds of movement. For partner dancing, we will explore how dynamic opposition maintains the contact between leader and follower.'
Korina Biggs:
Korina Biggs: has been earning her living as an Alexander Technique teacher since 2001. As well as a private practice, she has been employed as an AT teacher working with actors on a Theatre Arts degree in West Sussex, and with the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra. Prior to that she worked for many years as a performer and workshop facilitator with Frantic Assembly physical theatre company. In Autumn 2013 she will start work as an Alexander and movement teacher at The LIR (Ireland's National Academy of Dramatic Art). She used to teach lindy hop dance and currently facilitates Alexander influenced creative movement classes and one to one sessions. She is a founder member of a local collective ‘Dancers In Landscape’. Korina is currently studying an MA in Dance and Somatic Well-Being at UCLAN.
'The focus of this session will be how, as Alexander Technique teachers, we can invite the dancer into a state of creative potential. Many dancers are restricted in their range of expressive movement because of their adherence to style and training, the pressure to 'get it right', as well as to their deep personal habits of movement and holding. Through playful explorations of inhibition, non-doing, and 'getting out of one's own way' we shall develop our skills of supporting the dancer's desire for more spontaneous creativity from the foundation of good use.'
Niamh Dowling
Head of School of Performance
Rose Bruford College
Lamorbey Park Campus,
Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, Kent. DA15 9DF. UK.
t +44(0)20 8308 2600 | f +44(0)20 8308 0542 | ddi +44(0)20 8308 2634 | mobile 07534 912 231
Niamh Dowling
Head of School
Rose Bruford College
Lamorbey Park Campus,
Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, Kent. DA15 9DF. UK.
t +44(0)20 8308 2600 | f +44(0)20 8308 0542 | ddi +44(0)20 8308 2634 | mobile 07534 912 231
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