Next Live Interview Tommy Thompson
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 5:36PM | Share Article 
It will be my privilege and honour to chat with Tommy on Sunday afternoon, Jan 3rd (USA EST). (Click Live Interviews on left for all details) His name has been on my wishlist for a long time and now that we are putting together an issue on Training Schools it was only natural that I should talk with a man who has been teaching Alexander technique for 34 years, and has been the Director of training at the Alexander Technique Centre at Cambridge (ATCC) since 1983.
But Tommy's extended bio is even more interesting...
He has acted in or directed over 200 productions, is the co-founder and first chair of Alexander Technique International (ATI) and a former Assistant Professor of Drama and Managing Director of Tufts Arena Theater at Tufts University. Tommy has also lectured and given workshops at Harvard, Brandeis and Cornell Universities, New England Conservatory of Music, California Institute For The Arts, School at Jacob's Pillow Summer Dance Festival, Expanded Dance, Harvard and Bates College Summer Dance Festivals, La Canal Danse, Institut de Pedogogie Musicale et Choreographique, American Dance Guild, The Institute for Advanced Theater training for The American Repertory Theater, Cambridge and Children's Hospital, Boston.
He is also the co-author of Scientific and Humanistic Contributions of Frank Pierce Jones and co-founder of the Frank Pierce Jones Archives and the F. Matthias Alexander Archives, housed in the Wessell Library at Tufts University, and was the organization's director for six years.
Join me as I pick his brain on teaching, training and the future of education.
Reader Comments (2)
Greetings and Happy New Year. Reading the above article, I noticed that you have the full name of Tommy Thompson's Center correct, but you then used the wrong acronym. His school uses the initials ATCC (Alexander Technique Centre at Cambridge), not ATTC. ATTC is the acronym for the Alexander Technique Training Center, a different training program in Newton Massachusetts directed by Ruth Kilroy. It's quite a challenge in the Alexander Technique world to keep all the initials straight!
Thanks Pamela, all fixed now. What a coincidence that a school so close geographically has such a similar acronym! hope you can join us on the call. cheers Paul