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Index to Events
Events and Opportunities
for the Public
Post-Certification Offerings for Alexander Technique Teachers
- Yoga and the Alexander Technique: A 4-Workshop Series (3 workshops remaining) with Joan Arnold: Fridays, January 27, 2012; February 24, 2012; March 23, 2012
- Voice and the Alexander Technique: A Series of Workshops for Singers, Voice Teachers and Alexander Teachers: Saturday, January 21, 2012: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm with Michael Hanko Saturday, February 18, 2012: 10 am – 1:00 pm with Jean McClelland Saturday, April 21, 2012: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm with Alan Bowers
- Pre- and Post-AGM Workshops: February 3 & 5, 2012
- Barbara Kent's Post-Certification Class: Topic Back to Basics : March 10 & 11, 2012
- Meade Andrews' The Art of Group Teaching April 14 & 15, 2012
- Ruth Rootberg, From Whispered "ah" to the Stage and Boardroom: May 5, 2012
Events and Opportunities for the Public
ACAT's Alexander Technique Health and Well Being Intensive Course
We are pleased to offer dedicated students of the Alexander Technique the opportunity to undertake an intensive course of study for personal health and well-being within the ACAT Teacher Certification Program. Intensive students participate in the training class, receiving hands-on instruction from the faculty, and covering the material from the first year curriculum which focuses on use of the self. Intensive students may also have the opportunity to work with third students in the program receiving hands-on work; and will join in group and partner explorations. Intensive participants are not instructed in hands-on or other teaching skills.
Schedule
Daytime Classes meet Mondays - Fridays, 10:35 - 1:35 for three 10-week terms per year (September through June)
Starting January 2011, Evening/Weekend classes will meet: Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, 5:45 - 9:15 and Saturdays, 10 am - 2 pm for 3 ten-week terms per year (September - June)
Fees
Weekly: $325/week
Weekly attendance one day per week for 10 weeks: $650 x number of days per week
($850 for Saturday attendance)
Full time: $3000 per term
*Optional Private Lesson Package: Ten 30-minute lessons for $450
*Must be enrolled in intensive concurrently
Application Fee: $25
Admissions Lesson with TCP Director: $55
Admission
To arrange to participate in ACAT's Health and Well Being Intensive, please contact Brooke Lieb, Director of Training, at brookelieb@mindspring.com; or by phone at (212) 633-2229, Ext. 3.
The pre-requisite is a minimum of 10 lessons (exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis). The admission process includes completing the Intensive Course Application, submitting
a letter from your primary teacher and a personal interview lesson with the Director of The Teacher Certification Program. Admission is at the discretion of the TCP Director and is contingent on space in the program.
To open and download the Health and Well Being brochure and application form, please go to http://acatnyc.org/PublicDownloads.cfm
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Yoga and The Alexander Technique:
A Series of Workshops with Joan Arnold for Practitioners and Teachers of Yoga
In this series of four 4-hour workshops, geared for yoga students and instructors, we will explore how Alexander Technique illuminates the practice and teaching of yoga. Learning how to move well and breathe easily can make yoga safer, more pleasurable, and life-enhancing. Each class will focus on a primary Alexander concept and how it is expressed in asana practice.
III. SEEING & SENSING –- AWARENESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2011
3:00 – 7:00 PM
When we slow down and breathe naturally, we tap nto the wealth of information body awareness brings. We then can apply our new insights to perceive and shift our own imbalances, to promote healing, recovery and integrated movement. This class will explore breath as an essential element of awareness in motion. We will train our eyes, ears and hands to the subtle movements and shifts that can make yoga easier and more rewarding.
IV. MOVING WELL – PRIMARY CONTROL IDAY, MARCH 23RD, 2012
3:00 – 7:00 PM
In solving his vocal challenges, Alexander came to understand the crucial role of the relationship between the head and neck in solving body problems and restoring the body’s natural buoyancy. This concept is a boon to practitioners of yoga, helping us move with maximum support and ease. We will explore how freedom in the skull spine juncture can reduce strain and enhance bodily connections. Looking at the six movements of the spine in a range of yoga postures, we will experience and observe how light poise of the head can help us fulfill each pose.
COURSE DETAILS:
CLASS DATES (See above for class descriptions):
2 remaining Fridays:February 24, 2012;March 23, 2012
TIME: 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
LOCATION: ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, between 5th and 6th Avenue
COURSE FEES:
ACAT Teaching and Associate Members: $95 per class
Non-members: $110 per class;
To download a membership application, please visit: http:// www.acatnyc.org/PublicDownloads.cfm
TO REGISTER: Send payment in full by January 26th, payable to "ACAT", along with your contact information to 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, NY, NY 10011. For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
TO PAY USING PAYPAL:You can make payment via PayPal accessing the paypal website through a button on the website below. Please be specific with your description of your reason for payment.
http://www.acatnyc.org/payment.html
PLEASE NOTE: Indicate clearly which classes/dates you are registering for.
Refund Policy:
50% refund minus $25 registration fee, until January 1, 2012*. No refunds after January 1, 2012.
*All fees, minus a $25 registration fee, will be returned if a wait-listed participant takes your spot.
Each class satisfies 4 hours of AmSAT Continuing Education Requirements, Category 3
This class is limited to 16 participants.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: JOAN ARNOLD has been a movement educator for over 30 years, teaching dance, exercise, yoga and, since 1988, Alexander Technique. Certified to teach the Art of Breathing, her unique synthesis of Anusara Yoga’s alignment principles with Alexander Technique informs her group classes and the gentle hands-on guidance she gives her students. She has a private practice in NYC and has written about body/mind health for national magazines. She has been quoted as an expert on breathing, posture and yoga in Fit Yoga, Natural Health, O magazine and in Timothy McCall’s recent book, Yoga as Medicine. As Executive Director of the Ancram Opera House in upstate New York, she teaches ongoing Alexander-enhanced yoga classes.
Voice and The Alexander Technique:
A Series of Master Classes for Singers, Voice Teachers, and Teachers of the Alexander Technique
Jean McClelland: The Impulse for Sound – A Singing Workshop
Saturday, February 18, 2012
10 am – 1:00 pm
“The process of good singing is a process of physical and psychological coordination. Physical coordination depends of the alignment of the singer’s instrument. In itself, it produces no sound, but it creates the conditions which allow the imagination to produce the sound” Olga Averino from Principles and Art of Singing *Olga Averino was my principal voice teacher. The gift she gave me and the generations of singers she taught was the understanding of impulse. Impulse, a vital force present in every living thing is the connecting power between body and mind. Our awareness of and connection to impulse make singing, or any activity, centered and seemingly effortless. When we sing “on impulse” we become energized and focused and our voices ring with authenticity and nuance.
The main goal of our workshop is to experience the aliveness and freedom that come from singing on impulse. In our class we will explore ways of uncovering impulse in ourselves, bringing it to consciousness and working with it. We will discern the difference between “allowing” and “doing” as it relates to singing and become aware of natural, reflexive breathing, a necessary state for singing spontaneously and musically. Group singing of folk songs and spirituals will inspire joyful, rhythmic and expressive singing. There is no previous singing experience necessary to attend this class.
*Olga Averino was not a student of the Alexander Technique, but Principles and Art of Singing was brought to publication by Alexander teachers who felt that her work aligned beautifully with the Technique.
Jean McClelland graduated from Vassar College, has a MMus from Boston University in opera and voice performance, and is certified by AmSAT and ACAT as a teacher of the Alexander Technique. She studied extensively at the Carl Stough Institute for Breathing Coordination, Psychosynthesis Institute of New York, and the Michael Chekhov Studio. As a performer, she has appeared in the Broadway production of Camelot and has played leading roles in numerous musicals and operas including The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Show Boat, The Marriage of Figaro, A Little Night Music, The Pirates of Penzance, Silk Stockings, The Boy Friend, and The Gondoliers. In addition to private teaching, Jean has been a member of the faculty of the New York Open Center since 1986. She has given workshops at drama and music schools, universities, and holistic learning centers throughout the country including New York University, Vassar College, Rutgers University, William Paterson University, Stevens Institute, Rowe Conference Center, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, the Community Music Center of Boston, and theAssociation of Voice Pathologists. Her students have included leading performers of the Broadway and off- Broadway stage as well as opera, film and television. Jean continues to perform in concert with her husband, pianist and composer Bill McClelland.
Alan Bowers: Primal Sounds Saturday
April 21
2012: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
This class will be an exploration of primal sounds and their diagnostic, liberating function. We will experience sound as the breath's play upon the self. We will play, we will oscillate, and experience primal sound as the inhibitory link between thinking and singing. Teachers of the Alexander Technique will learn a new way to include phonation in a lesson, one that requires no training in singing or pedagogy, but is directly applicable to the art of singing. Singers and teachers of singing will learn that primal sounding is the foundation of inhibition for the singer and that the art of singing depends upon hearing not pronouncing.
Alan Bowers is a nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, a graduate of ACAT whose background includes language study, a vital and continuing interest in vocal pedagogy, and a deep involvement with the special skills of voice performance. While on the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University, he co-taught with Thomas Grubb the first seminar in bel canto held at that institution. In late 2010 he served as artist in residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, at Hawaii Opera Theatre Young Artist Program, and at California State University, Fullerton. He taught master classes in the Alexander Technique for singers, worked with choirs, and worked collaboratively with teachers of singing at all three institutions. He recently completed studies in vocology that earned him the designation of distinguished professional by New York Singing Teachers Association. Alan’s experience proves over and over that a voice teacher working collaboratively with a teacher of the Alexander Technique is the ultimate synergy for the developing singer.
COURSE DETAILS: CLASS DATES (See above for class descriptions):
2 remaining Saturdays:
February 18, 2012: 10 am – 1:00 pm with Jean McClelland
April 21, 2012: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm with Alan Bowers
LOCATION: ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, between 5th and 6th Avenue
COURSE FEES:
ACAT Teaching and Associate Members: $80 per class
Non-members*: $100 per class;
*To download a membership application, please visit: http:// www.acatnyc.org/PublicDownloads.cfm
TO REGISTER: Send payment in full by Monday, January 13th, 2011, payable to "ACAT", along with your contact information, to 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, NY, NY 10011. For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
TO PAY USING PAYPAL:You can make payment via PayPal accessing the paypal website through a button on the website below. Please be specific with your description of your reason for payment.
http://www.acatnyc.org/payment.html
PLEASE NOTE: Indicate clearly which classes/dates you are registering for.
Refund Policy: Full refund, minus a $25 registration fee, until September 12, 2011*. No refunds for the November workshop after September 12; 50%, minus $25 registration fee until December 31, 2011 for the 2012 events; no refunds for 2012 workshops after January 1, 2012*. *All fees, minus a $25 registration fee, will be returned if a wait-listed participant takes your spot.
Each class satisfies 3 hours of AmSAT Continuing Education Requirements, Category 3
Sixth Annual Annual Summer Intensive - July 2012 in the Big Apple
July 16 - 20, 2012
New and experienced students of the Alexander Technique are invited to join us for this opportunity to study with Faculty Members of ACAT, North America's Oldest Teacher Certification Program.
ACAT's annual week-long Summer Intensive is open to new and experienced students who wish to deepen their exploration of the Alexander Technique with ACAT's highly skilled faculty. Students will come together to learn in a rich group setting. Each participant will also receive one private lesson as part of the program. Daily classes will embody the rigor and focus of the teacher training setting, addressing the individual's needs and interests of each participant. We will delve into the Alexander Technique principles, as well as explore application to the activities of daily living.
The student to teacher ratio will be 7:1 or less.
Faculty
Members of ACAT's Teacher Certification Faculty will be teaching on the course. Additional Faculty from the ACAT teaching community will join us as needed. Faculty is subject to change without notice. For biographical information on the ACAT Faculty, please visit www.acatnyc.org.
Schedule
Daily group classes: 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Monday, July 16 - Friday, July 20, 2012
Each participant will be scheduled for 1 private lesson during the program. Lessons will take place at 12:30 or 1:15 one day after class.
Fee
Associate Members: $400
Non-members: $485
Deposit of $100 to reserve your space is due May 28
Balance of $300 (members)/$385 (non-members) is due on June 18
Registration
To secure your space, please send a deposit of $100 Due (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee) to:
The Summer Intensive @ ACAT
39 West 14th Street, Rm. #507
New York, NY 10011
Cancelation Policy: All fees paid, minus $25 registration fee, 28 a will be refunded until May 28. Between May and June 30, 2012, all fees minus $100 (includes $25 registration fee) will be refunded. There are no refunds on or after July 1, 2012.
Questions? For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1 or email her at office@acatnyc.org.
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Post-Certification Offerings for Alexander Technique Teachers
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Pre- and Post-AGM workshops
Friday February 3 and Sunday, February 5, 2012
Pre AGM Workshops: Friday, February 3, 2012:
Why Muscle Spindles are a key to Changing USE: Exploring David Garlick's research with Judy Stern
Friday, February 3, 2012: 4 pm - 7pm
Bio: Judy Stern teaches the Alexander Technique and is on the faculty of ACAT's Teacher Certification Program. She is a Physical Therapist with a love for physiology and kinesiology, which informs her work.
Post AGM Workshops: Sunday, February 5, 2012:
Crossing the Threshold: Connecting the Link Between Excitation and Inhibition, with Meade Andrews
Sunday, February 5, 2012: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
This workshop focuses on the link between Inhibition and Excitation, and will include a variety of movement experiences, individual work, and group discussion focusing on the art of group teaching.
Bio: Meade Andrews is a senior teacher of the Alexander Technique. Former director of the Dance Program at American University in Washington, DC, she currently teaches courses in Acting, and Movement for Actors at Rider University in New Jersey. She specializes in the art of group teaching, and has presented her work at the Lugano and Oxford Congresses.
Registration Information
Workshops are open to current Teaching and Associate Members of ACAT.
Course Fees: $65 for each workshop, $110 for both
Location: Both workshops will be held at ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, between 5th and 6th Avenues.
To reserve your space: Send payment in full for one or both events by January 15, 2012, payable to “ACAT”, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, NY, NY 10011. Please indicate clearly which event you are registering for; and please include your name, address, email and phone with your payment.
For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
Barbara Kent Post Certification Class Back To Basics: A Refresher Course
Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11, 2012, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm both days
We are delighted to have Barbara Kent, ACAT's most Senior Faculty Member, once again share her epxertise with us in a Post Certification offering. Participants will re-visit the basics, including teh core principles of awarenes, direction and inhibition; and procedures including monkey, "whispered ah" and hands on the back of the chair. Teachers will have a chance to deepen their self-work in application to daily living; and continue to develop pedagogical skills to effectively work with the basics in teaching.
COURSE DETAILS
Date: Saturday and Sunday, March 10 & 11, 2012
Time: 10 am to 4 pm both days
Course Fee: $300 members/$385 non-members (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee).
Registration: To reserve your space, email the office manager and send a deposit of $175 (includes a $25 registration fee) by Monday, February 27th, 2012.
The balance of $125 members/$210 non-members is due on or before Friday, March 2nd, 2012.
For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
This course satisfies 10 hours of Continuing Education hours for AmSAT's continuing education reguirements.
Class is limited to 12 participants.
Barbara Kent earned her B.A. in Music at California State University in 1959, studied voice at the Juilliard School from 1960-61, and received her MA in Music from Brooklyn College in 1971. Her singing led her to the Alexander Technique in the early 60's, and she was certified by ACAT in 1971. Barbara has been a faculty member of ACAT since 1972, and served as ACAT’s TCP Director from 1982-87, and 1996-2001. A long time faculty of the Sweet Briar Residential Course, Barbara has presented at a number of International Congresses; and for the New York Singing Teachers' Association and the Rubenfeld Synergy International Association. Barbara offers the Post Certification Program "Progress, Not Perfection" through ACAT. She studied with Carl Stough and integrates the principles of Breathing Coordination into her work; she is also certified in the Rubenfeld Synergy Method. Barbara maintains a private practice in NYC and Sag Harbor, NY.
Meade Andrews
Dates: April 14 & 15, 2012
The Art of Group Teaching: Preparing the Receptive Field
New material covered - open to new and returning participants!
This workshop is designed for new and experienced teachers, and teachers-in-training who wish to enhance their teaching skills in a group setting. Through a series of directed movement explorations, we will focus attention and awareness on creating an understanding of the “receptive field,” a condition of kinesthetic and cognitive alertness that enlivens the student/teacher learning relationship within a group class. As a result of this approach, the student is then more available and open to a lively, responsive interaction with the hands-on work of the teacher in front of the group. In addition, the group as a whole develops a more articulate and detailed approach to observation and awareness over the course of time. Through these shared learning experiences, students and teacher are united within the gestalt of the receptive field, increasing the learning possibilities inherent within the one-on-one subtleties of the Alexander Technique.
Topics for this year’s workshop will include:
Preparing the Receptive Field: Guided movement explorations in relation to Alexander principles which can be presented within the first 15 minutes of a group class, providing a coherent theme for the whole session and a collective focus for the students. This year we will explore the following etudes:
Having Our Backs: exploring the anatomy, movement, and direction of “lengthening, widening, and deepening” from Alexander’s perspective, and in relation to habitual thinking about having a “straight back.”
Balancing in the Gravitation Field: an exploration of the 3 Weight Centers, 3 Places of Poise, and structural and spatial 3-dimensionality in movement.
Review of the 6 Spheres of Attention: Examining new possibilities for developing the dynamic presence of the teacher as she works with her own thinking in relation to teaching in a group setting, while creating psychophysical unity between the teacher, student, and the entire group.
Course Details
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, April 14 & 15, 2012
Times: Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 1 pm; 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507, NYC 10011
Course Fee: $300 members/$385 non-members (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee).
Registration: To reserve your space, email the office manager and send a deposit of $175 (includes a $25 registration fee) by Friday, February 18, 2012. The balance of $125 members/$210 non-members is due on or before Friday, March 16, 2012. All fees are payable to "ACAT".
For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
This course satisfies 10 hours in Category 1 of AmSAT's Continuing Education requirement.
Course is limited to 14 participants.
Meade Andrews has been teaching, performing, and learning in group settings since she was 8 years old, and began her ballet training. She has taught and performed as an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and movement coach for dance and theatre throughout her career. She trained at the Alexander Alliance (1983-86), and most recently completed a teacher refresher course with John Nicholls, in addition to attending Jessica Wolf’s course in The Art of Breathing. Meade has taught workshops in The Art of Group Teaching at the Oxford and Lugano Congresses. She has taught throughout the US, Europe, and Japan, and in the graduate acting program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton for the past 8 years. This fall, she begins a new position as guest artist in theatre at Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. She also travels to teach in NY and DC, where she continues to present workshops at the Studio Theatre.
Ruth Rootberg:
Date: May 5, 2012
From Whispered “ah” to the Stage and Boardroom: Teaching tools to get to know your voice and prepare to meet your audience
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Our Alexandrian history begins with someone resolving chronic vocal problems that occurred while public speaking. As teachers, we learn to offer the principles, and for some of our students, they can transfer the general knowledge to improve their speaking and lower performance anxiety on their own. Some students, however, need more guidance. This workshop will offer tools for bridging classic Alexander work into vocal application for theatrical use as well as in business.
COURSE DETAILS
Date: Saturday May, 5, 2012
Time: 10 am to 4
Course Fee: $160 members/$260 non-members (includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee).
Registration: To reserve your space, email the office manager and send a deposit of $80 (members) $180 (non-members) - includes a $25 registration fee - by Friday, March 19, 2012.
The balance of $80 members/non-members is due on or before Friday, April 6, 2012.
For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
This course satisfies 5 hours of Continuing Education hours for AmSAT's continuing education reguirements.
Class is limited to 12 participants.
Ruth Rootberg , M.AmSAT (ATSNE, Missy Vineyard Ehrgood) is a designated Linklater voice teacher, Laban Movement Analyst, and singer. Ruth has presented for ACAT, AmSAT, the Voice Foundation, performing arts departments, and in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she teaches privately. Publications: Teaching Breathing: Results of a Survey (2002); “’End-gaining’ and the ‘Means-Whereby’: Discovering the best process to achieve goals of vocal training and pedagogy using the Alexander Technique” A World of Voice, Voice and Speech Review, 2011.
10-Week Post-Certification Course
ACAT offers its successful 10-Week Post-Certification Course two to three times a year. Please check back in September for the Fall Post Certification Course Details!
Classes are scheduled one afternoon a week, are 2 and 1/2 hours and are scheduled to run concurrently with the term schedule of the Teacher Certification Program.
We invite two to four members of the Alexander community to offer two to four classes. Some teacher series include a new topic each week, while others go more in-depth into one topic over a number of classes.
Past faculty members include: Pearl Ausubel, Joan Frost, Barbara Kent, Kim Jessor, Daniel Singer, Vivien Schapera, Alexander Farkas, Nanette Walsh and Bill Connington.
Classes are held at ACAT, 39 West 14th Street, Room #507
Fees for 10 classes: For ACAT members 1st and 2nd year teachers $525, 3rd year + teachers $625; For non-members 1st and 2nd year teachers $600, 3rd year + teachers $700. (All fees include a non-refundable $25 registration fee.
Each class satisfies 2.5 continuing education hours in Category 1 for AmSAT requirements and is open to all ACAT and AmSAT Certified Teachers.
For additional course information or if you have any other questions about registering for the course, call Allegra Romita, Administrative Assistant, (212) 633-222 ext. 1
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