Alexander Technique articles from DIRECTION Journal

Volume 1 Number 3

Raymond Dart

The Life & Work Of Raymond Dart

Regular Features

Editorial, The Garlick Report, In All Directions (8 pages)
Cartoon Corner, CounterPoint (letters), Viewpoint, Friends of Alexander.

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Articles In This Issue
New Method Of Vocal Respiratory Re-education - FM Alexander
Voice And The Alexander Technique - Allan Hough
The Dart Proceedures - Professor Alex Murray
Teaching the Proceedures - A. Nicolson/R. Monroe-Simmons/C.Raff
Tribute To Raymond Dart - Professor Phillip Tobias
Dart and Alexander - Frances Wheelhouse
The Garlick Report - Report from the Laboratory
Disunity in the United States - Kathryn J. Lord
A Lengthening Tune in Adelaide - Chris Raff
Cartoon Corner on Primary Control - D. Woodcock/L. Sharp
Editorial - Jeremy Chance

Abstracts of Articles In This Issue
Issue Editor Victoria Chance

"The Dart Procedures"
Professor Alex Murray outlines a practical guide, with many illustrations,
to experiment with the movements he has devised based on Raymond Dart's work.

"Teaching the Procedures"
Alex Nicolson, Robin Simmons & Chris Raff
describe how to use the procedures in working with yourself and others.

"Tribute to Raymond Dart"
Professor Tobias, Dart's successor at Witwatersrand University,
pays tribute to Dart's life and his contributions to the field of anthropology.

"Dart & Alexander"
Drawing from unpublished material, Frances Wheelhouse chronicles Dart's lifelong interest
in poise, including Alexander's work, after his second child, Galen, suffered motor damage at birth.

"New Method of Vocal Respiratory Re-education"
F. M. Alexander's second paper in a series of three articles
available in V1N2 and V1N4, all written before the publication of his first book.

"Voice & the Alexander Technique"
Based on Husler's work, Allan Hough offers some startling views on the evolutionary origins of singing
leading to some ideas which seem to contradict some sacred cows of the Alexander world.

"Disunity in the United States"
Kathryn J. Lord spent many month talking to various teachers in the United States
tracing the origins of the split between two large groups of Alexander teachers.

"A Lengthening Tune in Adelaide"
Chris Raff reports on an experimental project with musicians
being set up with a grant from the University of Adelaide