Writings

A letter from Timothy Gordon to Nina Marzi, daughter of the late Dr Alexander James and guardian of his method of care in curing Asthmatic patients.

Love remains a constant, in the fact of its continuous energetic renewal.
It never resigns itself to deception, but is the inception of empathy and kind heartedness.
Creative love is essentially endlessly creative. It manifests itself in actuality not in some outer realm but within an inner realm of exchange and experience....

Seeing the world before me I also, heard, witnessed, and then acknowledged the eternal presence of form and the uniqueness of those particular forms which were observed and the energy of life that existed within and around the series of those particular formations and structures....

The Alexander Technique is all about and concerned with ‘The use of the self’. 'Use' being the way or - as it is understood in the Alexander Technique Principles - the method that we use to apply our psychophysical self in achieving our daily interactions, labours and professions....

Timothy Gordon expresses some life reflections and home principles....

So interesting and beguiling a man. He seemed to be gifted from the angels and tried hard to live amongst the mortals. Well, he did what he was built for and he seemed never to sway. Such was his vision and enrapture of existence and its expression....

I am writing this in honour of Juliet and her work in dance in New Zealand during the first decade of this new century.
When Juliet and I first met, I encountered a woman who exuded dance throughout her being. Juliet's eyes melted all concerns and there was an absolute clarity in her person that exemplified her chosen art....

I remember first meeting Maurice Béjart in his dressing room at the State theatre in Stuttgart in August 1993. I had just had a briefing from Marcia Haydee, the famous Stuttgart ballerina and director of the Stuttgart Ballet, about Béjart's request for me to teach at his company.....

We were sitting focused on the screen, all of us schoolboys. A figure in black appeared on the screen in front of us and moved with a panther-like precision in and around a large blank space. This being moved with total control and definition throughout his body....