The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Theatre

Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures List of
• Contributors
• Foreword by Garet Newell
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Robert Sholl, University of West London, UK
• PART 1 : Historical Perspectives on Creative Practice
• Chapter 1 : Feldenkrais and the Modernist Body - Thomas Kampe, Bath Spa University, UK
• Chapter 2 : Feldenkrais, Freud, Lacan, and Gould: how to love thyself not as thy neighbour - Robert Sholl, Royal Academy of Music, UK
• Chapter 3 : Learning Through Feeling: How the Ideas of Nikolai Bernstein and Moshe Feldenkrais Apply to Performer Training - Dick McCaw, Royal Holloway, UK
• PART 2 : From Science into Creative Practice
• Chapter 4 : The Work of Dr Mosche Feldenkrais: A New Applied Kinesiology and a Radical Questioning of Training and Technique - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, University of Oregon, USA
• Chapter 5 : Radical Practice: Practising Performance and Practising Oneself is the Same Activity - Roger Russell, Feldenkraiszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
• Chapter 6 : Gaining insight on the impact of Feldenkrais Functional Integration in the context of piano playing: Considerations for measuring posture and movement quality:
• Part I : The Feldenkrais Method and Pianists: A pilot study of objective measurement of posture and movement - Jillian Beacon, University of Ottawa, Canada, Gilles Comeau, University of Ottawa, Canada and Donald Russell, Carleton University, Canada
• Chapter 7 :
• Part II : Considerations for measuring posture and movement quality - Jillian Beacon, University of Ottawa, Canada, Gilles Comeau, University of Ottawa, Canada and Donald Russell, Carleton University, Canada
• PART 3 : Studies in Creative Practice
• Chapter 8 : Mapping Body Awareness onto Piano Performance for Artistic Rejuvenation - Alan Fraser, Alan Fraser Piano Institute, France
• Chapter 9 : Building a Model for Injury Prevention in Music Pedagogy Rooted in Feldenkrais's Philosophy and Methodology for Learning - Lisa Burrell, Lone Star College, Houston, Texas, USA
• Chapter 10 : A Sense of Safety: Polyvagal Theory, The Feldenkrais Method and the Acting Process - Victoria Worsley, Feldenkrais Guild, UK
• Chapter 11 : Curing the Acting Habit - The Feldenkrais Method, Actors, compulsion, and the performing-arts industry - Mark Lacey, Independent scholar, UK
• Chapter 12 : Tuning the Body: dancing and singing from rehearsal to performance - Marcia Carr, Independent scholar, UK
• Chapter 13 : Food for no-thought ... meandering between a personal somatic practice and Feldenkrais teaching - Sylvie Forth, professor at the Dance Department of University du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
• Bibliography
• Index