This chapter examines the mentorship of Marjorie Barstow, the first American teacher of the F.M. Alexander Technique, a method of improving awareness of one’s underlying coordination in activity. The factors that led to Barstow’s own, very particular, model of teaching are many. I call her training a ‘constellation-mentorship’ and show how, in turn, she mentored the most influential American writer on the technique, Frank Pierce Jones, and supported the first American research into the AT.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-12921-9
EAN:9782406129219
ISSN: 2261-1851
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12921-9.p.0147
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 07-13-2022
Language: English
Keyword: Marjorie Barstow, constellation-mentorship, Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique teacher training, performing arts pedagogy, F.M. Alexander, coordination