Feldenkrais Method in performer training: encouraging curiosity and experimentation

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Igweonu, K. 2010. Feldenkrais Method in performer training: encouraging curiosity and experimentation. Swansea Centre for Innovative Performance Practice and Research. https://doi.org/9780956618504
AuthorsIgweonu, K.
TypeProject report
Abstract

HEA (PALATINE) funded Project Report. The Report serves as a resource to be dipped in and out of for information on how the Feldenkrais Method is being used in performance training contexts within UK higher education institutions.

There is a DVD to accompany the original report (not available online).

Year2010
PublisherCentre for Innovative Performance Practice and Research
Place of publicationSwansea
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/9780956618504
Official URLhttp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/subjects/palatine/feldenkrais-method-in-performer-training
Output statusPublished
Publication dates
PrintJul 2010
Publication process dates
Deposited15 Mar 2012
FunderHigher Education Academy (PALATINE)
Publisher's version
References

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Darley, Christian. The Space to Move: Essential of Movement Training (London: Nick Hern, 2009).

Feldenkrais, Moshe. Awareness Through Movement (New York: Harper Collins, 1990).

Feldenkrais, Moshe. Body and Mature Behaviour: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation, and Learning (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2005).

Feldenkrais, Moshe. The Master Moves (Meta Publications, 1989). Feldenkrais, Moshe. The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and
Compulsion (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2003).

Kampe, Thomas. ‘“Weave”: The Feldenkrais Method as Choreographic
Process’, Perfformio, 1:2 (2010), pp. 34-52.

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(2003), pp. 33-41.

Purcell, Michael. ‘Feldenkrais for Actors and Acters’, Feldenkrais Journal, 5, (1990), pp. 41-47.

Queste, Alan S. ‘The Feldenkrais Method: Application for the Actor’, Feldenkrais Journal, 14, (2002), pp. 11-16.

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