PAMELA BLANC teaches the Alexander Technique in Los Angeles, California and can be reached at The Alexander Teaching Studio at 310-470-2993 or through her e-mail address Blanc.Pamela@gmail.com.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Pamela Blanc is honored to present the 25th Annual F.M.Alexander Memorial Lecture at the American Society for the Alexander Technique annual Conference to be held at The Juilliard School of Music in New York City, June 2012.

Over the past 33 years, Pamela Blanc has established herself with distinction as a prominent teacher of the Alexander Technique.  She was the sole recipient of the 2008 Certificate of Merit from the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) for her commitment to the organization and having served as Chair of its Training Directors Committee for ten years. 

Pamela is an Active Member of AmSAT and frequently presents workshops for other Alexander Teachers at National and International Conferences.  She was one of twenty international teachers invited to present in Lugano, Switzerland at the Alexander International Congress (2011) and will be presenting workshops for Alexander teachers at this year’s AmSAT Conference in New York City.

Ms. Blanc has a private practice in Los Angeles and teaches in the Music Conservatory of the College of Arts & Sciences at Chapman University. 

During her career Pamela has taught many years in the Music & Theater Departments of the following universities: California State University Northridge (CSUN); the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); The Theater School at University of Southern California (USC); and the South Bay Children’s Choir at El Camino College.

In addition Ms. Blanc has taught Master classes at the University of Southern California; California State University, Fullerton; Chapman University; Azusa Pacific University; The International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga in Yaroslavl, Russia; the Arizona State Music Educators; the National Storytelling Convention.  And, has been a faculty member of OperaWorks for 12 years.

Ms. Blanc is a Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles (ATI-LA), an Alexander Teacher Training School, established 1987.  She was a Senior Faculty member and a Director of Training from 1988-1997.  Currently she oversees Continuing Education Programs for Alexander Technique Teachers at ATI-LA.

Living in Los Angeles brings many actors, musicians and singers into her practice. However, knowing the overall benefits of the Technique reach far beyond enhancing performance, her practice also brings computer programmers, writers, financial advisors, aerospace technicians and engineers, puppeteers, professional athletes, psychiatrists, psychologists, monks, teachers, children, set designers, dialect coaches, students, gardeners, newscasters, and other Alexander Technique teachers.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Committed to continuing education, Pamela continues her own depth of learning with Senior teachers of the Technique whenever possible.  She both takes workshops and teaches them at Alexander conferences nationally and worldwide.

The Art of Breathing, a phrase used by F.M.Alexander in an article published in The Auckland Star, New Zealand, July 20, 1895, and more recently used by Jessica Wolf, an Alexander Technique teacher in New York, describing the process she now teaches.  

Jessica Wolf introduced Pamela Blanc to the principles of Breathing Coordination in 1998. In April 2000 Pamela had a series of five private lessons with Mr. Stough.

Pamela continued her private studies with Jessica Wolf over the years and enrolled in the first Graduate Training Program in The Art of Breathing at the American Center for the Alexander Technique, New York City under the Direction of Jessica Wolf (2002-2003)

Pamela then assisted Ms. Wolf in teaching this course of study to other Alexander Technique Teachers in 2006 and 2010 and in teacher refresher courses in 2009, 2011.  Click on The Art of Breathing at the top of this page for more information.

The Foundation of Ms. Blanc’s Alexander Technique Education

Pamela began having private lessons in the Alexander Technique in 1975 with Mr. Frank Ottiwell and graduated from the American Center for the Alexander Technique in San Francisco in 1979 under the direction of Mr. Ottiwell and Mr. Giora Pinkas.

Curious to know about the work of experienced Alexander teachers, looking for the similarities in their teaching, and committed to her own continuing education after graduation, Pamela pursued her studies with the following Alexander Technique teachers all of whom trained with Mr. Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1956).

Pamela studied with Mr. Patrick Macdonald while in training (1976-1979) and later as a teacher, during his annual teaching trips from London to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Over a ten-year period Pamela studied with and hosted many of Marj Barstow’s visits to San Francisco and Los Angeles, California as well as traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska numerous summers to study with her there.  

Pamela had the pleasure to befriend Dr. and Mrs. Barlow during the First International Congress for the Alexander Technique in 1986 in Stony Brook, New York.  Pamela remained in contact and had private lessons with Marjory Barlow on later trips to London.

Not many, but very memorable were the private lessons Pamela had with Ms. Peggy Williams.  What a delight.

All of these Alexander Technique teachers who were trained by Mr. Alexander have passed away.  They were incredible individuals each of whom had a keen understanding of the importance of this work and passed it on to the next generation of teachers with generosity of spirit and great encouragement.