The following articles are by various members of the teaching faculty of the Alexander Technique Center at Cambridge (resident, adjunct and guest teachers).
They are written about the Alexander Technique, but they also give you an idea of the approach to the work, the philosophy and point of view of the teachers and training course of the Alexander Technique Center at Cambridge.
Most of these articles are on this site, but some may link to other web sites. Some of these articles are also available to download in PDF format for easy printing and offline reading.
Moving
from the Still Point of Support — by Tommy Thompson
An Interpretation of the Alexander Technique (also available for download in PDF format)
Sun and Moon
— by Tommy Thompson
A talk given at the 6th International Congress of the Alexander
Technique in Freiburg, Germany in 1999 on the day of the eclipse of the
sun by the moon, as Tommy explores what happens when you make changes
in the primary source, (i.e., attentional recognition) versus making
changes in what is reflected in the body (i.e. kinesthetic recognition)
(also available for download
in PDF format)
Anam Cara
— by Tommy Thompson
Keynote address delivered at the 2000 ATI Annual General Meeting at
Spanish Point, Ireland (also available for download in PDF format)
The
Teaching of Frank Pierce Jones: A Personal Memoir — by Tommy
Thompson (also available for download
in PDF format)
Frank
Pierce Jones's Views on the Alexander Technique — by Tommy
Thompson
The moral and humanistic implications of the Alexander Technique
(also available for download
in PDF format)
Showing Up - — by Tommy
Thompson
Instructions given at the beginning of
each class to the actors in the Advanced Institute for Theater Training
at The American Repertory Theater about how they might look at
preparing to ready themselves for class.
Making
Peace with Yourself is the Ultimate Use of the Self — by Tommy
Thompson
Excerpt from ATI's Exchange Journal Fall 2010 (PDF file)
The Alexander
Technique and Piano - by Deborah Adams
An introduction for pianists and their teachers (also available for download in PDF format)
64 Colors
by Andrea Matthews
The joys of rediscovering that huge range of forgotten but
half-familiar colors in your palette (also available for download in PDF format).
What is
the Alexander Technique? by Andrea Matthews
A collection of quotations about the AT work (also available
for download in PDF
format).
Why
Performers Need the Alexander Technique? by Andrea Matthews
(also available for download
in PDF format).
Aging Well
by Andrea Matthews
(also available for download
in PDF format).
The following collection of articles by David Gorman will take you to
his LearningMethods site, you can use your browser's "back" button to
return here.
Thinking
About Thinking About Ourselves — by David Gorman
How our thinking and belief systems affect our functioning and vice
versa. The 1984 F. M. Alexander Memorial Lecture given in London for
STAT (the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique).
In
Our Own Image — by David Gorman
A series of eight articles in which David explores a new model of human
functioning he discovered in 1982—a model that reveals our design as
inherently integrated, securely grounded and fully organized for
effortless movement; a model where muscles act as sensitive detectors
of instability and respond by suspending us in an elastic web of
adjustable support which follows us, springing us into
activity.
The
Primary Control — by David Gorman
How do we make sense of the fact that when we stop trying so hard and
give up, somehow we become more coordinated and integrated?
What is it that takes care of things when we stop trying to?
The answers may surprise you as this article presents a radical view of
our in-built coordinating mechanism — the primary control. (This is
part 8 of the series, "In Our Own Image" above.)
On Fitness
— by David Gorman
How the Alexander Technique can shed some light on constructive and
unconstructive aspects of fitness programs and exercise
Experiences
and Experiments in the Alexander World by David Gorman
David's "Second-Generation Masterclass" at the 1991
International Alexander Congress in Engleberg, Switzerland where he
challenged everyone to "be... without being teachers" ...with
interesting results.
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