Contemporary Alexander School
Teaching Team

The CAS Teaching Team for The Creative Body ‘22 is comprised of highly experienced educators in both performing arts and Contemporary Alexander Technique, in addition to maintaining their own careers as performers, directors, and choreographers.

Led by CAS Director Robyn Avalon, they represent the next generation in Marjorie Barstow’s lineage of teaching Contemporary Alexander in group settings, using performance activities as the means for learning the work’s principles.

Over the past 3 decades, the CAS faculty has developed a unique "team-teaching" pedagogy that allows for improvisation, inspiration, and fun, which is sure to delight all who participate!

It is a lively, highly experiential, contemporary paradigm for teaching that is student-inspired. Our way of teaching is precisely tailored to the needs of each individual student, whether they are brand-new to Alexander’s work or have been exploring it for decades.

We meet each student's needs inside of a group experience so that everyone can learn from everyone. We work together as a teaching team, inside of every class. We study with each other. We play with each other.

It is a unique learning experience, not to be missed!

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