About Feldenkrais Performers

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Feldenkrais Performers helps performing artists, performance teachers, and students learn how the Feldenkrais Method applies to drama, dance, and music performance. 

Teachers often develop their views on learning based on personal experiences, with limited knowledge of scholarly work in their field and performers outside their areas of expertise and their location. Additionally, traditional pedagogies focus on the techniques and styles of specific art forms. The pedagogy of singing, for example, will have little in common with how to play the piano or how to dance. Somatically based learning methods, such as the Feldenkrais Method, begin with how the person learns and uses themselves rather than beginning with the specific performing art from. Consequently, a somatic approach applies to all the performing arts, viewed from a performer's perspective.

The purpose of creating this website is not just to promote the Feldenkrais Method but to promote an exchange of ideas about how the work applies to learning performance. It is a two-way proposition. The arts benefit from studying the Feldenkrais Method to refine and promote healthy performance while performing arts teachers offer a valuable perspective that benefits the work in general.

On this website, you will find a bibliography of books and articles and names of teachers, scholars, and pedagogues in the performing arts certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method. Regardless of your background or expertise, I encourage you to explore articles of all performing arts disciplines. The bibliography includes links to each publication. While most articles are published in peer-reviewed journals, some non-peer-reviewed stories are included as well.

You will also find the names of teachers with a short description of their work (in progress) that you can further explore via the internet.

This resource is not definitive. Like others, where I live and my expertise limit my exposure. I plan to continue to expand the information on this website to include more regions and publications.

I am grateful to those who supported my pursuit that eventually led to this website including; Elizabeth Reed, Stacey Pelinka, Prisca Winslow, Thomas Kampe, Dianne Hancock, Maxine Davis. Scott Fraser, and Stephen Paparo.