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There are now 23 teachers in Japan and
several can be reached by email.
They all accept emails in Japanese.
ABOUT TOKYO TRAINING SCHOOL
This is a full-time training school situated in Meijro, a central Tokyo district. Training covers a period of four years entailing 1,600 hours of tuition. The year is divided into three terms of 9 weeks each, starting in March and ending in December.
Course Director: Jeremy Chance
Assistant Director: Hitomi Ono
Associate Directors: Yuzuru Katagiri & Cathy Madden
Further information is available in Japanese at the ATA
Web site.
Please email us if you have any questions.
ABOUT JEREMY CHANCE
Jeremy Chance has been involved with the Alexander Technique for over 20 years. He was originally an actor and, after performing professionally for several years, subsequently completed the three year training in London, qualifying in 1979. In London he taught at the E15 and Rose Bruford Performing Arts schools before returning to Australia in 1980.
At that time he founded in Sydney the first Alexander Technique teacher training course while also setting up the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT). After many years of developing the work in Australia, he began to teach extensively in Europe, America and Japan. In Sydney, he has taught at NIDA, the Actors Centre and the Actors College, as well as maintaining a private practise. He has also taught at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
For the last 15 years, Jeremy has been the Editor and Publisher of DIRECTION, an international Journal on the Alexander Technique. He has also recently completed a book "Principles of the Alexander Technique" which has been be published by HaperCollins in October, 1998.
Jeremy now lives in Hieidaira, in the mountains of Kyoto with wife, Alexander teacher Jaldhara Koyama and his dearest little daughter Angelica.
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Yuzuru Katagiri publishes a regular newsletter in Japanese about the Alexander goings on in Japan. If you would like to be on this mailing list, please contact him at this email: Mailto:yuzuru@kyoto-seika.ac.jp