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London AT
Friends
Tuesday
27th September 2011
6:30-8:30pm, Friends Meeting House, 8 Hop Gardens,
St Martins Lane, WC2N 4EH.
Entrance fee: £5 (concessions £3)
Guest
Speaker: Diana Devitt-Dawson
Remembering Wise Words and Helpful Hands.
The evening presentation will be given by
Diana Devitt-Dawson (HoT), a Tasmanian re-visiting
London. Diana would like to share some of her memories and
experiences of having Alexander lessons with some first
generation teachers from 1981 to 1986 then from 1989
-1990 including Margaret Goldie, Patrick Macdonald, Marjory
Barlow, Dr Wilfred Barlow and Erika Whittaker. These
lessons had a profound influence on Diana, not only in
helping her understand how to self-work but also now teach
and "stick to principle" when instructing pupils and
trainees. The evening will involve a talk, hands-on work and
questions.
Diana Devitt-Dawson
RN/Midf., M.STAT, M.AUSTAT, M.ASPAH is director of training
at the Alexander Technique Institute Teacher Training
School in Sydney, Australia.
Diana trained in London with Mr Patrick Macdonald and Shoshana Kaminitz and graduated in1984. From 1984-1986
Diana taught at the Alexander Institute in
central London with Dr Wilfred Barlow and Marjorie Barlow.
In 1986 Diana returned home to Australia but returned to
London in 1989 to teach and continue lessons herself. In
1990 Diana spent three months living-in-residence with Mr
Macdonald at his home in Lewes, Sussex where she assisted on
his last teacher training course. Diana returned to
Australia at the end of 1990 and set up a private practice
in British Medical Association House, Sydney. In 2002 Diana
became a Head of Training and opened her school in Sydney (www.alexandertechniqueinstitute.com.au)
Diana is a
midwife with a coronary care / stress management nursing
background. Interests include, walking holidays,
Shakespeare, Zen meditation, world music, learning Celtic
harp and skiing.
If you would
like to come to this event then please contact Friends
administrator Julia Outlaw by email at:
julia@atfriends.org
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Projects
The
Performing Self
The
Alexander Technique has for many years been firmly
established in colleges of music, drama and, more recently,
dance. We have within our community many experienced
teachers working in those fields and there have been several
special events with an opportunity for teachers interested
in working with performing artists to exchange with others
and develop their knowledge: the International Congresses
and the Conferences for Alexander Teachers in Music
Institutions particularly come to mind.
However,
these events are very ‘in-house’ and give little scope for
sharing our knowledge and experience with people outside the
profession. AT Friends is keen to play a part in raising
awareness of what the Technique has to offer to performing
artists and also to provide a forum in which we can exchange
with and learn from others working in that field: voice
coaches, speech trainers and therapists, performance
psychologists, movement teachers, etc.
We plan
therefore to host an event entitled The Performing Self,
offering themed workshops for performing artists and a forum
for exchange with people who practise and teach other
disciplines. To explore ideas around this theme, we are
bringing together people experienced in this field to form
an ad hoc steering committee: John Hunter, Dorothea Magonet,
Peter Buckoke, Judith Kleinman and Penny O’Connor. We would
be pleased to hear from anyone wishing to get involved with
this exciting project: as an organiser, a presenter, with a
good idea, or suggesting a good contact who might be
interested to join us.
Alexander Orchestra
An ongoing
project is to form an "Alexander Orchestra", made up of
musicians who are teachers or pupils of the Technique, which
will perform at a Friends Event. Judith Kleinman and Peter
Buckoke are beginning to gather together names of potential
participants, so if you are a musician and would like to
become involved please contact Judith at
judeklein(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk
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