Nadia Kevan

Supporting Life's Direction

Two day Learning Module - suitable for participants of diverse interests and backgrounds.  Aim: Conscious use of the Psycho-physical Support System to deepen and extend self-awareness, perception and expression.

This workshop will be a practical introduction into the Psychophysical Support System, a fundamental and vital aspect of the postural reflex system and of the equally important systems of Self-Respect and Self-Expression. There will be a generous but not exclusive focus on the feet, legs, pelvis and hands and their psychophysical significance for living in connection to Self and the environment. The application to movement and human expression will be touched upon. The participants will be shown how they can begin to inhibit psycho-physically self-induced interferences and therefore gain useful experience of their support systems and how to use and integrate this work into their own movement and teaching practice.

Nadia Kevan trained in classical and contemporary dance in London.
Dance, performance and teaching with state Opera-ballet and Theatre companies in Germany. Performance projects with musicians and visual artists. Trained as an Alexander Teacher with Chris Stevens and Karen Wentworth. She was married to Chris for 10 years and they shared 17 years of working and researching together into the Support System. Since 1993 Professor for Body Awareness and Movement Studies at the Folkwang Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Essen, Germany. Nadia has continued to research also into the mental, spiritual and expressive aspects of the Support System. She calls this the Psychophysical Support System. Nadia is director of Open Space Theater in Cologne, Germany, Center for Integrated Arts and Alexander Technique, where she is director of a GLAT training course. In Summer 2008 she begins a new facilitators-training programme: ASPIRE - Body Awareness, Spirituality and Dance.