EDUCATION: Physical Training

Movement

Bob MacDougall (206) 522-2201
A man of many talents, MacDougall is a stage combat specialist ( armed and unarmed techniques and stunt coordinator): Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, member of the United Stuntman’s Association and certified in several martial arts. In addition, he is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and licensed massage therapist. He also offers general coaching in movement, with private and group sessions available. A movement teacher at Cornish College of the Arts, MacDougall teaches tai chi and yoga, as well. His work is recognized on four continents.
E-mail: clanrdmacd@aol.com

David Taft
( Equity, AFTRA)
David Taft trained at the Dell’Arte School with Carolo Mazzone-Clementi and at the Michael Howard Studio in New York, and has worked with Tony Montanaro in movment and mime, as well as Gennadi Bogdanov in Theatrical Biomechanics. Mr. Taft has taught at Cornish for 15 years, Freehold Studio, and offered workshops and residencies over the last 25 years at colleges and universities on both coasts. David also teaches Clown Art
dtaft@cornish.edu
Website: davidtaft.com

Alexander Technique
Website: AlexanderTechnique.com

Lynne Compton (206) 366-8757
A British native, Lynne Compton is a teaching member of Alexander Technique International, and an actor. She works at Freehold as well as giving private lessons to actors, musicians, dancers and singers. With singing coach, Lucia Neare, and pianist, Matt Goodrich, Ms. Compton teaches group workshops entitled “Singing and the Alexander Technique: Sounding the Whole Self”.
E-mail: lynnecompton@earthlink.

Steve Hurley (206) 367-3766
Steve Hurley holds an M.M. in vocal performance and is certified by NASTAT* . He uses Alexander Technique to help vocal problems, and coaches actors, singers and dancers in movment characterization.

Catherine Kettrick (306) 522-3584
Group classes/private coaching. Kettrick belongs to Alexander Technique International, and has taught since 1976

Catherine Madden (206) 368-8544
Acting and Alexander Technique; workshops and private coaching that combines stage work and movement theory. She has been teaching Alexander Technique for over 25 years and is the Alexander Technique Instructor at UW’s Professional Acting Program. ( see acting coaches.

Andy Zavada (206) 550-6791
Private lessons. Andy is a graduate of the American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York. He is certified by and a member of NASTAT

Feldenkrais
FITS
Feldenkrais Teachers in Seattle is an organization of Feldenkrais practicioners here in the Seattle Area
Website www.Feldenkraisteachers in Seattle.com

Becci Parsons (206) 545-7272
Ms. Parsons has been certified as a Feldenkrais Practitioner since ’91. On the faculty of the Cornish dance department, she also works with actors, dancers, musicians and performance artists, including Cirque de Soleil performers.

Bob MacDougall (206) 522-2201
Certified in Feldenkrais, Bob MacDougall also teaches movement, stage combat and martial arts.
clanrdmacd@aol.com

Stage Combat

Society of American Fight Directors ( SAFD.org)
Website: SAFD.org

Geoffrey Alm (206) 365-3870
Alm is an actor/fight director, a certified teacher and a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors. His specialties are rapier & dagger, broadsword, small sword, quarterstaff, sword & shield, knife and single sword. He also teaches certification and re-certification classes at Freehold. He directs stage combat for both contemporary and period productions.
E-mail gbald@juno.com

Bob Borwick (206) 683-2267
( Equity)
A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake California, Bob is also certified as a teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and specializes in unarmed combat, comedic, single sword and small sword.
On the faculty of Seattle Pacific University, he was also associate director of the Academy of the Sword in San Francisco and holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. A teacher for 14 years, Bob teaches dance choreography and Private movement consultation as well a combat.
E-mail: Bobbyborwick@yahoo.com

Bob MacDougall (206) 522-2201
A man of many talents, MacDougall is a stage combat specialist ( armed and unarmed techniques and stunt coordinator): Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, member of the United Stuntman’s Association and certified in several martial arts. In addition, he is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and licensed massage therapist. He also offers general coaching in movement, with private and group sessions available. A movement teacher at Cornish College of the Arts, MacDougall teaches tai chi and yoga, as well. His work is recognized on four continents.
E-mail: clanrdmacd@aol.com

Clown Art

David Taft
David Taft teaches mask ( neutral, expressive, and Commedia) circus art and Theatrical Biomechanics. He’s available for individual coaching and offers workshops on a regular basis.
E-mail: dtaft@cornish.edu
Website: davidtaft.com

Arne Zaslove
Arne Zaslove, was the first American to study at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, in Paris, and served an apprenticeship with Commedia dell’Arte master Carolo Mazzone-Clemente. He has directed all over the world with groups such as the Pickle Family Circus, the Clown Conservatory, Circus Center in San Francisco, Cirque de Soleil and at the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater in Blue Lake CA and at the Commedia School in Copenhagen. Arne is highly skilled at helping clowns and physical theater performers to find the motor in their routines, develop their characters, build and extend their comic business, and improvise with freedom and confidence. Arne also teaches Mask work as well as Physical Theater and Improvisation. (see Acting Coaches, Shakespeare)
www.zaslove.com

Relevant website. Worldclownassociation.com

United Stuntmen’s International Stunt School (425) 290-9957
Two-and three-week intensive professional training workshops. David Boushey, the founder, is also the founder of the Society of American Fight Directors, one of the ten Fight Masters in North America, and has had a 25 year professional career as a stunt performer and instructor throughout North America.
E-mail: Bushman4@prodigy.net
www.stuntschool.com

Relevant Websites: stuntmen.com; stuntwomen.com

Massage and Body Work

Bob MacDougall (206) 522-2201
A man of many talents, Bob MacDougall is also a licensed massage therapist.

Cranial-Sacral Therapy-

Barbara Coon (206) 391-4222
Barbara Coon practices Cranial-Sacral Therapy a massage technique which gently re-aligns the skeletal structure of the body, with particular attention to the relationship between the cranium and the sacrum. Ms. Coon also successfully works on relieving both the symptoms and the cause of TMJ (jaws out of alignment).

Yoga & Tai Chi

Bob MacDougall (206) 522-2201

Chiropractor

David Lawson (206) -5433
Dr. Lawson adjusts TMJ using an Activator, a special instrument. ( Capitol Hill)

Pilates on 10th
Cornish dance graduates Amie Baca and Melissa Lipko as well as champion long-distance runner Gordon Overby, offer matt classes, duet classes and individual instruction in Pilates.

Martial Arts

Bob MacDougall (206) 522-2201

Lee’s Martial Arts (206) 329-4000
Lee’s Martial Arts has classes and private instruction for children and adults, in Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Boxing, Brazilian Jujitsu and Eskrima. Proprietor Master Eddie Arnold first received his black belt in Tae Kwon Do at age 8, and now holds a 5th degree Black belt, as well as a Brown belt in Judo, and a Blue Belt in Brazilian Jujitsu. He is the youngest African American Hapkido Master in the world. Space rental available. (Capitol Hill)

*NASTAT North American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique