An Academic Who Dances

Your academic friends all behave similarly right?

The love books. They want to debate you - they have strong opinions, write essays and hang out with their intellectual friends.

Scary almost. So what do you make of this person…

He realises he is an intellectual - so what does he do?

HE JOINS A FRIGGING DANCE COMPANY!!!

The Tasmanian Dance Company in fact. This "intellectual" person - who dances - is my dear friend Greg Holdaway. He is an Associate Director of BodyChance and this year, one of the lead teachers at BodyChance's 22nd Golden Week’s Online Symposium.  Golden Week is the Japanese version of Easter holidays – three public holidays all in a row.

https://bodychance.mykajabi.com/how-to-teach-alexander-online

Greg is one of those exceptional teachers who develops what he is lacking - until he knows more than the experts. After his dance career, Greg trained with me and my brother-in-law Bill Brenner in Sydney to qualify as an Alexander teacher. 

During that time, he morphed into a publisher/editor and worked with me to produce the Direction Journal.

Later he returned to academic life - confounding the Professors at Australia's oldest and most elite University of Sydney. Here's what it was like for one of those Professors:

Professor would turn to the class of young students and ask:

"Does anyone have any questions?"

Then quickly point towards Greg and say:

"NOT YOU!"

Why? 

Because the Professor guessed he might not be able to answer Greg's question.

Greg was already way past the current students, asking leading-edge questions that called for the latest research in how our nervous system operates our movement. Of course, by this time Greg was an experienced teacher of Alexander's discoveries and used his empirical knowledge of this system to pose complex neuro-command questions.

There's even a story of Greg coming out of a final year exam and telling the Professor:

"You made an error in the exam. You posed a question that is impossible to solve."

Of course, the Professor thought it was nonsense. Until he checked - Greg was right. The Professor had failed to include the data needed to answer one of his questions!

All true.

That's Greg. 

And if you want to go ten layers deep, Greg is ready for you. 

This year, Greg is honing his sharp thinking skills to give you guidance to work online. His advice is grounded in leading-edge science. Here’s a a line describing one of the three workshops he will present during BodyChance’s Online Symposium during Golden Week”

“The human mind can encode qualities of biological motion perception with a high degree of accuracy from just a few moving points of light, provided that they are moving!”

Greg explores the science of co-ordinated seeing – how to use your whole Self to be involved in a 4-Dimensial way. You can read more about his workshop – and those of Cathy Madden, Lucia Walker, Jeremy Chance & Tommy Thompson at this link:

https://bodychance.mykajabi.com/how-to-teach-alexander-online