Joyce Wodeman (Bird) (†1990), British teacher of the Alexander Technique.
Joyce Wodeman was a professor at the Royal College of Music. She started having lessons with Marjory Barlow and later trained as a teacher of the Technique with the Barlows.
Wodeman was involved in the research project of investigating the effects of the Alexander Technique on singers which was conducted by Dr Wilfred Barlow with students from the RCM.[1]
After she qualified she taught the Technique at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Her article, ‘Tension and the Actor’, is the first article (1962) dedicated to the benefits of the Alexander Technique for operatic acting.[2]
Obituary
- ‘Obituary: Joyce Wodeman’ by Marjory Barlow.[3]
Joyce Wodeman (Bird) †14 January 1990.
References
[1] ‘Postural homeostasis’ by Wilfred Barlow. Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the British Association of Physical Medicine on April 26, 1952. Published in Annals of Physical Medicine vol. 1, no. 3, July 1952. Also in Postural Homeostasis by Wilfred Barlow (Mouritz, 2014), pp. 79–96.
[2] ‘Tension and the Actor’ by Joyce Wodeman in The Alexander Journal no. 1 edited by Edward H. Owen, (STAT, 1962), pp. 10-13. Also in More Talk of Alexander edited by Dr Wilfred Barlow (Mouritz, 2005 [1978]), pp. 216-19.
[3] ‘Obituary: Joyce Wodeman’ by Marjory Barlow in STATNews vol. 3, no. 1 edited by Carolyn and John Nicholls (STAT, June 1990), p. 6.
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