7th
International Congress of the F M Alexander Technique - Oxford 2004
by Ken Thompson
Published
July 2005
49
papers from the 7th International Congress 424 Pages Over 50
illustrations
More than
700 people from over 20 countries participated in the 7th International
Congress of the FM Alexander Technique. The Congress papers discuss both
practical and theorectical concerns of teaching and practising the Technique.
They contain a wide variety of traditional and new ideas and views,
representing a great amount of experience and knowledge from all over the
world. This volume brings together 49 papers from the Congress.
Contents
# Contents
Introduction by Peter Ribeaux
# Group
Teaching by Meade Andrews
#
Comparative Listening by Beret Arcaya
#
Graviception by Glenna Batson
# Themes
and Variations by Anne Battye
# F M
Alexander: The Unwritten Biography by Michael Bloch
# Detached
Observation by John Brown
# Speaking
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Lawrence Bruce
# Back in
the Beginning by Walter Carrington
# We can
Believe our Eyes by Brigitte Cavadias
# A Tale of
Two Paradigms by Jeremy Chance
# Basic
Directions Revisited by Jean Clark
# A Lesson
in the Alexander Technique by Rivka Cohen
# Living
Without Proprioception and Touch by Jonathan Cole
# ‘Talking’
Hands by Diana Devitt-Dawson
# What did
Miss Goldie Understand? by Penelope Easten
# Alexander
and Voice Work by Janet Madelle Feindel
# The
Future of Alexander Technique Teacher Education by Terry Fitzgerald
# Decoding
Dancerspeak by Robin Gilmore
# The Three
‘Ups’ by Judi Granit
#
Integrating Eyes, Brain and Body by Peter Grunwald
# Where It
All Began by Jane R Heirich
# Golfing
With the Alexander Technique by Martyn Jones
# The
Generous Voice by Kate Kelly-Tanguay
# Designing
a Life-Changing Course of Alexander Lessons that Addresses a Pupil’s Needs - a
# workshop
with Frank Kennedy
# The
Uncommitted Hand by Barbara Kent and Joan Frost
# Teaching
Without Touching by Catherine Kettrick
# The
Support System by Nadia Kevan
# A History
of Educational Alexander Projects after the Little School by Judith Kleinman
# The
Ambush of Fear by Elizabeth Langford
#
Personality Adaptations and the Alexander Technique by Jamie McDowell
# The
Alexander Technique in Pregnancy and Childbirth by Ilana Machover,
# Working
with Musicians in Performance by Vivien Mackie
#
Variations of a Teacher’s Art by Cathy Madden
# Our own Newton by David M Mills
# The
‘Whispered Ah’ and the Expression of Emotion by Robin Möckli
# A New Way
of Thinking by Shmuel Nelken
# From
Reflective Practice to Effective Practice by Carolyn Nicholls
# What is
Presence on Stage? by Penny O’Connor
#
Thought-Shepherding in Singing by Patricia O’Neill
# Working
with the Chakras Emotions and the Alexander Technique by Glen Park
# Video
Presentation of Work with a Pupil with Parkinson’s Disease by Ellie Ribeaux
# Alexander
Teachers and Pain by Peter Ribeaux
# Feet The
Final Frontier by Jane Staggs
# Teaching
the Alexander Technique to People with Parkinson’s by Chloe Stallibrass
#
Neuroscience Panel Presentation by Judith C Stern
# An Open
and Shut Case by Alun Thomas
# Playful
Procedures by Ken Thompson
# The
Diamond-Dart Meridian Sequence by Judith Youett Muir
# Francisco
Varela and The Gesture of Awareness by Rachel Zahn
