Alan McDermott is a certified Feldenkrais Practioner and Teacher and holds both BA and MA degrees in Design and Choreography. 

I conduct research and teach classes in The Feldenkrais Method focusing on guided instruction that allows participents the time to observe and question their movement patterns, habits and choices. 

I trained at the Feldenkrais International Training Centre in the U.K from 2003-2007, I previously attended The School For New Dance Development in Amsterdam from 1994-1996 where my studies included the skeletal/joint system, movement quality, release technique and composition, earning a Dutch postgraduate diploma in Higher Professional Education. I have taught Movement Research  and the Feldenkrais Method in The Netherlands, Italy and the U.K. From 2008 - 2015 I taught as an associate lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University and practiced in the Health, Exercise and Active Living Clinic in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science from 2015 to 2016. I am an associate member of the  Feldenkrais Guild U.K.

Teaching 1997 – present includes

MAP workshops. Movement Arts Gloucester Massachusetts (MAGMA)

MAP workshops. Arizona State University (online)

Awareness Through Movement classes. MMU Cheshire.

Functional Integration lessons. HEAL Clinic. MMU Cheshire. .

MMU Cheshire. Feldenkrais for movement research. 2014/15

Hunter College NYC, Awareness Through Movement. 2014

George Washington University, Washinton DC, 2014

Manchester Metropolitan University. Staff development. 2013

Windhover, Massachusetts. Feldenkrais for artists in residence. 2012

Spazio Razen, Milano - Somatic Practice and Dance workshops with Vincent Cacialano and Marcella Fanzaga. 2012

Dance and the Feldenkrais Method  - Dartington, Devon 2011

Improvisation Summer Courses Amsterdam. Feldenkrais 2010/11

Manchester Metropolitan University- Feldenkrais Method and Choreography. 2008 - 2011

University Of Lincoln – Feldenkrais Method. 2007

Dept. for Dance Teacher Training. AHK - Feldenkrais Method

Sneaker Amsterdam- Feldenkrais Method

School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam - Movement research and composition. 

Atelier delle Arti, Livorno- Movement Research and Body Theory

Hampshire County Council- Improvisation and Composition with Commonweal Dance Co.

Other experience

Animated films with movers from a diverse range of community groups. See Resouces page.

Arts Worker with adults with learning difficulties, using the visual arts and movement. 

Summer school performance workshops with hearing impaired children.

Site specific combined arts and performance workshops for children in rural communities and schools.