Tessa Marwick & Paul Versteeg

Poise, Intention, Stillness and Movement

This is a practical workshop of hands-on, playful procedures & movement games which over the years as trainers & performers, Paul & Tessa have devised from out of the 'core procedures' in their training of Alexander teachers.

The 'games' explore poise, intension, stillness & movement while maintaining our integrity through inhibition and the primary directions and thus challenging our ability to think & communicate in activity. This indirectly enlivens our teaching.

The games are simple & fun for people to do and allow a flowinig into movement with grace, lightness & ease, involving individual, partner & group work as well as gentle movement through space. They have proved useful in encouraging a natural expansion of self, liveliness and presence in the application of our hands-on in teaching.

Paul Versteeg graduating from the Theatre School in Amsterdam, Bejart's Mudra School (Brussels), Merce Cunningham's studio (New York) and Tessa Marwick graduating from the University of Cape Town (BA & Diploma in Speech & Drama) and Sigurd Leeder School of Modern Dance (London & Switzerland), both trained with Walter & Dilys Carrington in London qualifying in 1983.
While continuously maintaining a private practice and teaching at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Drama Studio & East 15 in London Paul & Tessa also began exploring & developing their theatre work from out of the Alexander principles. Together they performed, directed & ran workshops all over Europe & carried out Alexander/theatre projects in Switzerland (4 months) & Sweden (2 years). They taught & directed in the Theatre Department of Williams College Mass. USA (1 year) in 1990.
After these many & varied experiences in working with individuals & groups, they opened the Alexander Technique Centre Amsterdam (ATCA) for training Alexander teachers in1994.

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