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Teacher's wisdom: Lynn Simonson.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-04 		Format: Online - approximately 931 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Teacher's wisdom: Lynn Simonson.(This Month)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
Jazz dancer Lynn Simonson created the Simonson technique when chronic injuries drove her to investigate an anatomically sound approach to movement. Writer Michelle Vellucci talked with her following class at Dance Space Center in New York, co-founded by Simonson in 1984. For twelve years, Simonson also directed the Jazz Project and the New Vision for Dance program at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

HOW DID YOU DEVELOP THE SIMONSON TECHNIQUE? I didn't plan to develop a technique. When I was 24, I was asked to teach in Amsterdam, and I had a lot of adult beginners who'd never danced before. I began thinking about developing and preparing a non-dancer for dance. I started looking at their bodies and noticed that beginners usually lean back. Why? Because their weight's forward in their pelvis. I think that fault, alignment is what...

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