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About
Lucia Walker
ATCA Board member since 2020
Lucia Walker works internationally as an Alexander teacher and movement artist. She is now based in Wales. She has been dancing all her life and involved with AT and Contact Improvisation for 40 years. She qualified in 1987 after training with her parents Dick and Elisabeth Walker Currently she teaches AT to groups and individuals of all ages and abilities, as well as training teachers.
She also teaches and facilitates regularly for Independent Dance (London), and Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative in South Africa
Lucia was one of the three Directors of the International Alexander Congress held in Oxford in August 2004 and has presented at seven of the other International Congresses.
Since 2014 she has been co-director of Alexander Technique Learning and Teaching Programmes, introducing the work in a variety of contexts. Working with performers is a particular interest and she works regularly with classical musicians, singers and dancers.
She has also been deeply influenced by Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which like AT supports the ability to change habitual responses and facilitates listening more deeply to oneself and others.
She continues to practise, teach and perform Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition, exploring how to easily enter a creative state of presence.