Wiseman Technique
A physical training technique that facilitates awareness, strength
and flexibility.
Following his work with Ballet Horizons, Wiseman joined the
Staatstheater in Darmstadt Germany in 1973, where he was Ballet
Master for the Tanztheater and Opera Ballet.
It was during this time that the Wiseman Technique was conceptualized.
He developed and tested it there with international dancers, one
of whom, Evan Jones, went on to teach this technique in his native
Brisbane Australia.
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Lessons
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Wiseman Technique
can be arranged by appointment
call Padam
(604) 684 9390
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Let gravity do the
work - article by Renee Doruyter, The Province Lifestyles, 1980
"We take advantage of the fact that every voluntary movement
of the body can be reversed," Wiseman says "The muscle contracts
or relaxes, and both produce movement. One is active, working against
gravity; the other is passive... There is also resultant movement,
the shift in the passive part of the body when making an active
movement. By eliminating any blockage of energy, and all stress
and strain, the body becomes more efficient. ...I look at what I
do as the physical part of meditation."
Wiseman's
technique now on ice - article by Gordon McIntyre, The Province
Sports, December 11, 1998
Padam Wiseman trained and toured with the National, Royal Winnipeg
and Royal ballets. He has a technique named after him for training
figure skaters and ballet dancers, the Wiseman technique. A sculptor,
he was commissioned to make 2 bronze statues of Rudolph Nureyev,(1
- 2) in St. Petersburg - two of
four in the likeness of the great Russian ballet star that grace
the beautiful baroque capital of the Czars. But the biggest kick
the 62 year old West Ender gets these days is lacing on his figure
skates. "I wandered by the West End Community Centre like so many
people do and saw something I liked," said Wiseman, a native of
Unity Sask. "I skate every day now." It's a long road from the Saskatchewan
town to the West End, through tours of Russia with the ballet to
teaching dance to sculpting. "I had a Russian mother and she encouraged
me to dance as a kid," he said. "And then I found out dancing existed
as a profession and that was all I needed."
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