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Get more of what you love Follow more accounts to get instant updates about topics you care about. See the latest conversations about any topic instantly. Never miss a Moment Catch up instantly on the best stories happening as they unfold.Due to anticipated severe weather, Berklee will be closed on Thursday, February 9. We will update the Alerts page with additional information as we receive it. Students appear in a trancelike state -- some lying delicately on a table, others sitting bolt upright in a wooden chair, and others walking across the room, slowly. The setting is a classroom. One student, Colleen Harris, sings a song from the musical "Nine" -- or tries to. As she sings, the teacher is gently jabbing his fingers in her neck. Another first-year student at the American Conservatory Theater, Clayton B. Hodges, sings "Tonight" from "West Side Story," but breaks off laughing as the teacher fingers Hodges' temple. The teacher, Frank Ottiwell, is trying to train their bodies in his specialty: the Alexander Technique.

This is a method designed to help people learn how to improve their posture and body language in relation to their well- being. Ottiwell, 73, has been teaching the technique to such students as Annette Bening, Delroy Lindo and Benjamin Bratt for 44 years, the last 38 with ACT, including its early years in Pittsburgh. This week Ottiwell is putting it to the test as an actor -- for the first time in eight years -- as Ferapont in ACT's production of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" at the Geary Theater through June 8. "Frank is sort of like a sensei -- or the Papa Smurf of the program, because he gives advice you really want to pay attention to," said Harris, 22, an Atlanta native who just completed her first year as an ACT student last week, and remembers her first confusing weeks of the Alexander class. "One thing that has stuck with me a lot: He was working with one of my classmates who was doing a Shakespeare monologue, and Frank was behind him and he started wiggling his fingers on this guy's temples, and the guy is like, 'Frank, what are you doing?

What are you trying to do to me?' and Frank said, 'We don't communicate with our mouths, we communicate with our eyes.' Just that one little day in class, that meant a lot to me." Bening, who has gone on to a distinguished film career that has garnered her two Academy Award nominations, credits Ottiwell and the Alexander Technique with having a lasting impact on her life, and remembers her first difficult year as a student. "Let's say you're doing a scene from 'Streetcar Named Desire,' " said Bening, who graduated from San Francisco State in 1980 and was at the conservatory from 1980 to 1985. "You're running around the room, you're throwing yourself on the bed, who knows what might be happening, and Frank would literally be shadowing you, behind you, with his incredible hands perched on the base of your neck guiding you around, allowing you to feel what it was like to stay open physically, and also stay fully involved in whatever you're sup- posed to be doing." Ottiwell speaks of eliminating, or redistributing, tension from the body to create the most natural performance that will strike a chord with audiences, and that's what he was trying to do with Harris.

"The other kids in the room could tell (Harris was tense) when she sang," said the soft-spoken, gray-bearded Ottiwell. "We just made the tiniest little change -- all I was doing with her is trying to get her not to tighten as she went, say, for a high note. One of the objects of Alexander was to 'come to full stature.' Or, as Bening put it, "Good acting is revealing yourself, not covering yourself up. If your body is free, your mind is free." F.M. Alexander (1869-1955) was an Australian actor who developed the technique when he was losing his voice onstage and discovered that the position of his head and spine was the key to solving his problem. Ottiwell, who never met Alexander, began learning the technique in 1955 after coming to America from his native Montreal. Ottiwell said the technique is applicable to anything -- "If you were digging ditches, I'd give you the same lesson." "I once worked with a young pitcher who had been signed by the Yankees," said Ottiwell, who had the pitcher demonstrate his delivery with wadded-up paper balls.

"He wound up and threw his pitch, and just as he let the ball go, he threw his head back. Well, I didn't know a lot about pitching, but I knew that that wasn't such a hot idea. So I sort of manipulated him a little bit and got him to throw the ball and not pull his head back." Clearly, though, Ottiwell's continuing legacy is as a top-notch trainer of actors. And then there is his longest-tenured student who has never stopped learning: himself. "What's great about Frank is he still talks about everyday things he's still experiencing," Harris said. "He'll say, 'Today I was walking to the bank and I realized I was crunching in on myself.' It's so interesting considering how long he's been working with it, he's still a student of it." And he's a student who, even after all these years, is nervous about exercising the craft of acting -- especially in front of his students. At least until the curtain goes up and the technique becomes second nature. "I was hoping that those eight years had gotten rid of the butterflies!"