Marj developed an approach to the Technique that emphasized students taking the responsibility for organizing their own learning. She clearly and consistently presented the principles of the Technique, while providing a framework that allowed students to find their own path to understanding and embodying those principles.

We began The Performance School in part because we felt the direction Marj brought to the Technique was vital to its continued growth. We wanted a way to combine teaching the Technique with our own interests in exploring the "new field of inquiry" that Alexander believed his work opened up. We designed the training course to provide students a broadly based education in the Alexander Technique, with a special focus on working with performance, both professional performers and people performing their everyday activities. We also wanted to provide a place where performers and others who did not necessarily intend to become Alexander Technique teachers could study intensively, and a place for continuing education where students, teachers and teachers in training could explore the special challenges of teaching the Technique in a performance context.

Currently The Performance School provides individualized programs for teacher education in Seattle and an ongoing teacher education program in San Diego, California. The faculty also offer classes and workshops in the Alexander Technique and related fields. Through this web site we hope to continue to study the nature of human performance from the perspective of the work of FM Alexander.