Deepen your awareness to enhance spontaneity in your actions.  Performers need both of those qualities.  As Alexander teachers, we can help them to integrate the essential aspects of awareness and spontaneity into their practice and performance.

My background lies in contemporary dance as performer, choreographer and teacher.  Over the years, I’ve taught dancers, actors, and musicians, helping them overcome the pressures and obstacles inherent in creative work.  In these CL working sessions, I share my experience of teaching artists and groups.

I have a deep appreciation of improvisation, which I believe is also an aspect in every teaching session. What if the attitude of not-knowing could be present in our work, alongside non-doing?

In these CL sessions we start with practical hands-on work with the questions on non-doing and not-knowing.  We then use inhibition and direction to create internal space, allowing us to play with walking, stopping and everyday movements.  As we move through physical space, we also explore awareness in relation to others.  If you have experience in contemporary dance, you can take the movement further in complexity, but you do not need previous experience in dance to attend.

The main focus is on the dialogue between you and the other by the use of inhibition and direction.