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Film Courage: How were you introduced to the Alexander Technique?
Acting Coach and Specialist in the application of the Alexander Technique Jean-Louis Rodrigue: I was introduced to it in 1969. I was working as an actor and training and my teacher Sonia Moore was a director and a teacher of the Stanislavski system and one day she said I have invited an Alexander Technique teacher, and we were all very excited. We thought that we might have to wear togas. I thought it had something to do with Alexander the Great.
To my surprise there was this small woman that came in and she started working with us in a silent sort of way but she was asking us to move and be aware of our bodies. When she placed her hands on my neck, I’ll never forget it, I took the biggest breath in a long time. I had asthma as a child, so she unlocked something inside of me and it was so shocking and exciting and surprising that I could breathe like that but thank God she did that and I thank God I went to that class, it totally changed my direction in my life. I decided that I wanted to…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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About:
Jean-Louis Rodrigue is an internationally recognized acting coach, movement director, and specialist in the application of the Alexander Technique to film, theater and television. In film, he coached actors and collaborated with directors in Passion Fish, Vice, J. Edgar, Life of Pi, W., I, Tonya, and many more. In theater, he collaborated with director Larry Moss and former NFL player Bo Eason in his play Runt of the Litter and playwright Pamela Gien in her Obie– and Drama Desk– award-winning one-person play, The Syringa Tree, both in New York and internationally. Jean-Louis has worked on- and off-Broadway and at major performing arts institutions such as Berlin International Film Festival, Cirque du Soleil, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Getty Villa, Geffen Playhouse, Royal National Theatre, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Verbier Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company. For the past 34 years, Jean-Louis has taught at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Jean-Louis lives in Los Angeles with his husband, Kristof Konrad.
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