Dowling, Niamh

Practitioner

Niamh Dowling is Head of the School of Performance at Rose Bruford College in London. She has worked internationally as a Movement Director, leading workshops in the UK, Europe, USA, Asia, South and Central America and Russia. Niamh trained as a teacher of Movement and The Alexander Technique with Monika Pagneux in Paris, and Anne Bogart, Nancy Topf and Eva Karczag in New York. She has collaborated closely with Teatr Piesn Kozla in Poland for the past ten years.

Dowling has a holistic approach to education and performance training, with emphasis on the interconnectedness of movement and voice.

Dowling 1 — Video

Alexander Technique into Performance I

This workshop was an early attempt to develop a form of movement training work for performers that has its underpinning in the principles of the Alexander Technique and the work of Monika Pagneux.

Dowling 2 — Video

Alexander Technique into Performance II

This workshop was an early attempt to develop a form of movement training work for performers that has its underpinning in the principles of the Alexander Technique and the work of Monika Pagneux.

Dowling 5 — Video

Alexander Technique into Performance III

This workshop was an early attempt to develop a form of movement training work for performers that has its underpinning in the principles of the Alexander Technique and the work of Monika Pagneux.

Dowling 6 — Video

Alexander Technique into Performance IV

This workshop was an early attempt to develop a form of movement training work for performers that has its underpinning in the principles of the Alexander Technique and the work of Monika Pagneux.

Alexander Technique_Assetthumb — Video

Moving into the Body: Movement and Somatic Training for Performance

With its underpinning in the principles of the Alexander Technique, this workshop introduces a somatic framework for movement training for performance which develops Alexander’s directions.

Directing subject list — Category

Directing

Directors aim to find a dramaturgical and rhythmical shape to their work to cultivate focussed performers and a sense of shared purpose among the company, and to build a staging consistent with this.