This article was originally posted on FPAW by David Zemach-Berson. Here is a short video of David’s “11-week old grandchild, in which you can see the nascent building blocks of more complex movements. Learning to lift our head while on the stomach is one of the keystone moments of development. David is in awe of the magic way that developmental movement unfolds, something that Dr. Feldenkrais studied in detail. Did you know that his wife was a paediatrician? It is safe to assume that she influenced his understandings. What a profound process it is! Taking place over approximately one year, nearly all infants gradually solve the problem of how to be upright and walk in gravity. Feldenkrais be
Published in THE DRAMA REVIEW Volume 16 Number 1 (T-53) March, 1972. In October 1971, Moshe Feldenkrais came to the United States to give seminars in body training at the Esalen Institute, at Carnegie Mellon, and at the School of the Arts at New York University. The interest shown in his work by these institutions reflects an important change of emphasis in the area of movement training for actors. The choice, put simply, is between training the body to perform skilfully as a well-exercised, aesthetically pleasing physical instrument, and freeing the body of its habitual tensions programmed patterns of behaviour, so that it can respond uninhibitedly to impulse, and genuinely reflect individu
Here is an excerpt of what we explored in last Saturdays workshop at WeMove studio in Mullumbimby.
