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The Axis Syllabus (AS)

is a resource and system for developing and gathering pertinent information in order to distil movement principles for training the body into an accessible format, a user's manual for dancers, athletes and physiotherapists or anyone interested in human movement. The information itself is drawn from a wide variety of sources including somatic disciplines as well as scientific inquiry into movement as well as extrapolations and suppositions of those engaged in its development. Consequently it is an amalgam of verifiable concepts that have a wider context of support and ideas that are conjecture but have experiential support but need to be studied and verified.

The AS is a constantly updated overview of safe-zone motion parameters, places where the body can take impact and compression, methods for deploying the body-masses to generate and conserve kinetic energy, and functional alignment concepts for various kinds of activity i.e.: stretching, lifting, rolling, walking, running, leaping, and climbing.

Of special interest is how tensegrity can be created, loosened, tightened or lost, and when these states are advantageous or not.

Updating occurs through cross-checking theory with practice, and vice versa. This consolidation process has helped to clear up misunderstandings and question movement methodologies, sponsoring the protection and enhancing the skills of today's dancers and athletes, and the re-education of movement teachers, choreographers and project leaders the world over.

History

The AS began in 1997 in response to a perceived lack of applied anatomical and physical science to [|dance]. Frey Faust, it seemed that many trainers, choreographers and dancers were ignorant of anatomy and as a consequence were damaging their bodies inadvertently including himself. Initially, the AS was considered a dance method like others Graham Technique or Flying

Now it is considered an information resource, allowing approach and movement propositions to vary with the teacher.

Frey Faust Biography