Alexander Technique articles from DIRECTION Journal

Volume 1 Number 10

Dance And Movement

Regular Features
Editorials, The Garlick Report, In All Directions (8 pages),
Carrington on FM, Book Reviews, Mis Direction, CounterPoint (letters),
Viewpoint, Friends of Alexander.

Articles In This Issue
Authentic Movement - Aileen Crow
Marjorie Barstow Interviewed - by Marsha Paludan
As Yet Untitled - Eva Karczag
The Actor & the Neutral State - Joan Diamond
Sometime Wrestling... Always Dancing - Elizabeth Garren
Dance Therapy - Linda Murrow
False Self - Mark Arnold
The Space Between: Stimulus & Response - Pippa Bondy
The Skilled Use of the Body - Professor Phillip Tobias
The Alert-Drowsy Cycle - Dr David Garlick
ViewPoint - Robert Rickover
Friends of Alexander: Heinrich Willhelm Kayer - Margaret Long
Presidential Poise - Robert Rickover
The Canning of Katz- J. de P.
Misuse in the Morning - Holly Stevenson & Jerry Schwiebert
Pounding the Beat: Carrington Recalls FM - John Brown
Alternatives: ATN & ATI - J. de P.
Obituary: Inge Henderson - STAT News
Mr Rogers - Mr Rogers
The Universal Constant in the Kitchen - Mis Direction

Related material
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 3 - [The Dart Procedures]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 7 - [Feldenkrais & Alexander]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 8 - [Music & Musicians]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 9 - [Emotions]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 3 - [Voice]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 4 - [Sexuality]

Abstracts of Articles In This Issue
Issue Editor Marsha Paludan

"Authentic Movement"
Aileen Crow believes that some tension patterns need to speak and be heard.
They need to move and be seen - to reveal their meaning and be resolved.

"Marjorie Barstow Interviewed by Marsha Paludan"
Marjorie Barstow: the woman with the eye of a hawk and the heart of a dance
talks about her early experiences with dance, her lessons with FM and her training.

"As Yet Untitled"
Eva Karczag is a renowed leader in experimental dance and an Alexander teacher.
Here she presents her vision of this work and how she teaches Alexander to 'movers'.

"The Actor & the Neutral State"
Joan Diamond wonders just what is this neutral state so often talked of amongst actors?
Who are you as a character in your own life? Can actors truely rearrange their 'habit of life'?

"Sometime Wrestling... Always Dancing"
Elizabeth Garren's diary of her personal struggles - writing as she dances
with fleeting inner impressions, the birth of movement, feeling, wondering, creating.

"Dance Therapy"
Linda Murrow writes about the pschotherapeutic use of movement
to help further the physical and emotional integration of the individual.

"False Self"
Mark Arnold reflects on two articles in DIRECTION's V1N9 "Emotions" issue,
offering some wider insights on 'Alexander' emotional life.

"The Space Between: Stimulus & Response"
Pippa Bondy draws on her diaries and experiences as a student and AT teacher
to confront core issues about who she is, how she perceives herself and how to integrate changes.

"Man the Tottering Biped: Part V - The Skilled Use of the Body"
This 5th of six installments on human postural evolution explores
manipulation and implemental activities, the sounds of speech and song

"Garlick Report: The Alert-Drowsy Cycle"
It's official - that tired afternoon feeling is a design of the nervous system. Dr Garlick
suggests that a short lie down in semi-supine, not a coffee, is the appropriate response.

"ViewPoint"
Robert Rickover finds that the discoveries of William Sutherland, father of
cranial osteopathy, has implications for the use of hands on by Alexander teachers.

"Friends of Alexander: Heinrich Willhelm Kayer"
Margaret Long tells the story of the Mine Manager at Mt Bischoof in 1886
when an eager young man with dreams of stardom took his first job before going on to...