Writings

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Article

21 March, 2021

Letter to Nina Marzi

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.
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14 October, 2020

LOVE

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....
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14 September, 2020

Form

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....
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27 July, 2020

Principles and Concepts of The F.M Alexander Technique

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....
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20 July, 2020

Manifesto

Timothy Gordon expresses some life reflections and home principles....
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10 July, 2016

Reflections - Reference to: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simon-

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....
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4 October, 2015

Tribute: Juliet Fisher

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....
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1 January, 2008

A personal account of experiences and memories of MAURICE BEJART

- Maestro of the Dance -
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.....
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Storybook

10 July, 2016

The Dancing Years

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....
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Dance Notes

14 July, 2015
  1. When you dance we wish to see what you feel not what you think.
  2. In groups, feel the person alongside you, the people around you, the space, the music the vernacular of the atmosphere around you.
  3. Feel every part of yourself moving in relationship to every other part of yourself, interacting and playing alongside every aspect of what your attention is experiencing, not just with your self preoccupation but with the inclusive experience of the whole and total creative vision, that includes everyone around you and everything that is going on about you.
  4. Experience other than your ego, your artificial self, when you dance, which can dominate and resist integration, creating a block to a potentially creative and dynamic atmosphere. Without this restriction you can take all that you are experiencing to another level and place.
  5. Bring your full presence to what you experience you are doing, thereby avoiding the immense waste that is created, when your attention is unfocussed and your thought is constantly interrupted by insignificant and meaningless distractions.
  6. Listen with your whole being to what is passed on to you, as its origin is a legacy of dedication, inspiration, creativity and a loving passion for the language of dance.

Interviews

9 June 2012
Former Company Z Dancer Benny Ord on life and work as a dancer in London
Benny Ord at the Barbican In this short interview, Timothy Gordon asks former Company Z dancer Benny Ord to speak of his experiences and observations now he is an artist with Wayne McGregor's acclaimed Random Dance.

More interviews to be published.

Recommended Readings

  • The Poet Les MurrayOpen new window
  • Alain de BottonOpen new window
  • The Literature of Paul Gallico Open new window