Mabel Todd (other)
Mabel Todd may refer to: * Mabel Elsworth Todd (1880–1956), founder of what later came to be known as Ideokinesis, a form of somatic education * Mabel Loomis Todd (1856–1932), American editor and writer * Mabel Todd (actress) Mabel Todd (August 13, 1907 – June 2, 1977) was an American actress. Early years Todd was from Glendale and attended the University of Southern California. Career Todd performed in vaudeville as a singer, dancer, and comedian. Todd appeare ...

Mabel Elsworth Todd
Mabel Elsworth Todd (1880 – 1956) is known as the founder of what came to be known as ' Ideokinesis', a form of somatic education that became popular in the 1930s amongst dancers and health professionals. Todd's ideas involved using anatomically based, creative visual imagery and consciously relaxed volition to create and refine neuromuscular coordination. Lulu Sweigard, who coined the term Ideokinesis, and Barbara Clark furthered Todd's work. Todd's work was published in her book 'The Thinking Body' (1937), which is now considered by modern dance schools to be a classic study of physiology and the psychology of movement. Her work influenced many somatic awareness professionals of her day, and is often cited along with the Feldenkrais method and Body-Mind Centering for its focus on the subtle influence of unconscious intention An intention is a mental state in which a person commits themselves to a course of action. Having the plan to visit the zoo tomorrow is an examp ...
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Mabel Loomis Todd
Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis (November 10, 1856 – October 14, 1932) was an American editor and writer. She is remembered as the editor of posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson's poetry and letters and also wrote several novels and books about her travels with her husband, astronomer David Peck Todd, as well as co-authoring a textbook on astronomy. Todd's relationship to the Dickinson family was complicated. She had a lengthy affair with Emily's married older brother William Austin Dickinson. In preparing Emily's poetry for publication, which was also marred by family controversies, "she and co-editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson altered words, changed Dickinson’s punctuation, capitalization and syntax to make her poetry closer to the conventions of 19th century verse. Perhaps most controversially, they gave names to poems that originally bore none (of Dickinson’s close to 2000 known poems, perhaps only a dozen were given names by the poet, herself)." B ...
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