Find a BAC Alexander Technique Teacher Near You!
You can find BAC teachers all over the world!
The teachers in this directory are all graduates of the BAC Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course. The BAC Teacher Training Course is Certified by the American Society of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT).
Teachers in the U.S.
Teachers Abroad
New York, NY
Ann Rodiger
arodiger@balanceartscenter.com
Ann Rodiger is the Founder and Director of the Balance Arts Center in New York City. She has over 35 years of teaching the Alexander Technique. Her teaching draws from her knowledge of Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga, meditation and various dance techniques. She has developed the Balance Arts Center Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program and substantial programming for performing artists. She has also adapted the Alexander principles to work for those with hypermobility and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Rodiger teaches internationally in Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Turkey. The Balance Arts Center is a NYC Women and Minority Owned Business and a thriving place for the community to teach, share knowledge, and perform.
Thomas Baird
Thomas Baird is a Historical Dance specialist, and is the co-director of Apollo’s Banquet, a New York City-based Baroque dance and music ensemble. For ten years, he directed the East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University. Mr. Baird is a regular guest lecturer on Baroque Dance at The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. He is a long-time faculty member of the Opera Division at SUNY Purchase where he teaches Movement Styles for Singers and choreographs the annual opera productions. He is on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music where he also teaches movement for singers. He was the Period Movement Coach for the Broadway productions of O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet,” and, at Lincoln Center Theater, Sheridan’s “The Rivals.” He also choreographed period dances for the Metropolitan Opera production of Alfano’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” starring Placido Domingo. For the past five seasons, he has choreographed and performed period dances for the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts at Avery Fisher Hall. Mr. Baird taught Period Dance at the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet during its inaugural year. Thomas is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, having received his training from the Balance Arts Center in NYC, Ann Rodiger, director. He teaches the Alexander Technique privately, and in the Dance Divisions of Purchase College and The Juilliard School.
Richie Barshay
richiebarshay@gmail.com
Richie Barshay is a percussionist, music educator, and AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. As a performer, he’s worked with Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Lee Konitz, Natalie Merchant, Bobby McFerrin, and Pete Seeger among others. Since 2004, he has led musical exchanges across 5 continents as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department. Dubbed "a major rhythm voice on the rise" by Downbeat Magazine, The Guardian (UK) calls him "the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun." Based in New York City, he can be heard on over 75 recordings including his latest release as leader, Sanctuary (2014), featuring Chick Corea.
Karen Braga
www.karenbraga.com
karen.braga.nyc@gmail.com
Karen teaches students to act, sing, dance, play, walk, run, and do their thing with more coordination, poise, and presence.
Rebecca Brooks
www.rebeccakelleybrooks.com
rebecca.kelley.brooks@gmail.com
Rebecca Brooks is an independent dance artist and Alexander Technique teacher based in New York City. Her teaching and art practices are integrally linked. Her performance works have been presented since 2005 by venues in New York City including Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Roulette, NADA New York, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, LaMaMa, Dixon Place, Not Festival, Catch, and Dance Films Association, in Los Angeles at Pieter, and at Martha Hill Dance Theater at Bennington College in Vermont. Rebecca has been on faculty at Bennington College, Balance Arts Center, and Movement Research, and she maintains a private Alexander Technique teaching practice. Rebecca has worked as a performer for many independent artists and choreographers, including Marina Abramovic, luciana achugar, Walter Dundervill, Susan Rethorst, Maria Hassabi, robbinschilds, Heather Kravas and Kathy Westwater. She has worked as Performance Advisor with both Heather Kravas and Milka Djordjevich.
Miles Bukiet
https://www.milesbukiet.com
milesbukiet@gmail.com
Miles Bukiet is a teacher of meditation and interpersonal meditation based in New York City. His practice experience includes five years of full-time study of meditation and related mind-body disciplines encompassing upwards of 10,000 hours of practice. This training included two years at monasteries and practice centers in Asia, two years of solitary retreat under the guidance of Alan Wallace, Ph.D. and Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D, and one year studying with Soryu Forall at the Monastic Academy. Miles recently completed the Master’s of Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania where he focused his studies on the intersection of meditation and modern science. He currently teaches at NYU through MindfulNYU and has run retreats and workshops at Wesleyan University, The University or Pennsylvania, Mindful Harlem, Middlebury College , Syracuse University, University of Rochester, Columbia Teacher’s College, Dai Bosatsu Monastery, Tibet House, and the among others. Miles is the co-founder of Dharma Gates, a non-profit, that empowers young people to build meditation communities. Miles has a passion for interpersonal meditation as a way to increase emotional intelligence, and build coherence and psychological safety in individuals, teams, and families. He has co-facilitated interpersonal meditation retreats with Circling Europe and has accumulated over a thousand hours of practice and teaching with this potent form. Miles is certified to deliver Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), a course designed at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also certified to deliver Cognitively Based Compassion Training (CBCT) a course designed at Emory University. Miles also teaches the Alexander Technique (a refined method of fostering body awareness and and alignment). He completed a 1,600 hour Alexander Technique teacher training course with Ann Rodiger at The Balance Arts Center. Miles is training in MDMA assisted psychotherapy with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in order to work with the SoundMind Center in West Philadelphia and is pursuing a Master’s in Social Work at Columbia University. By drawing from these various rich traditions, Miles creates programing to fit the needs of unique populations.
Matt Cahill
mattcahill.online
matt@mattcahill.online
Matt Cahill pursues singing-acting at the highest level. Highlights of his performance career include starring as Papageno in the international tour of Peter Brook’s Molière Award-winning adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute, Une Flûte Enchantée, performing with the New York City Opera and London Symphony Orchestra, singing as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, dancing in the major motion picture The Producers!, and appearing as a co-star in Law & Order SVU. Highlights of his teaching career include acting as lead faculty of Juilliard’s High School summer voice program, teaching Alexander Technique to singers from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, directing the young artist program at SongFest at Colburn, and teaching and directing the opera workshops at both Brooklyn College Conservatory and Montclair State University. Matt is the co-founder and co-director of ATsinging, dedicated to the original intent of the Alexander Technique to bring freedom and ease to the human voice. Most recently, he has co-founded Hogfish, a performing arts and artist training company in Portland, ME and New York, NY dedicated to regenerative theater: making the world a better place through the stories we tell, how we engage with our community, and how we train the next generation of artists. BM voice Juilliard School. MM vocal arts Bard College Conservatory. AmSAT certification Balance Arts Center.
Michele Cappello
Michele Cappello became a certified Alexander Technique teacher in January 2014. Her goal is to bring the Alexander work to people from all walks of life with special focus on performing artists and populations with special needs, e.g. veterans who may suffer from posttraumatic stress or young adults diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Michele offers lessons at the Balance Arts Center and in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Ms. Cappello has a background in dance, art and yoga. As a certified Kundalini yoga instructor she worked with the psychiatric forensic and psychiatric adolescent populations at Bellevue Hospital. Michele holds a BFA in Fine Art from New Jersey City University. She has taught art workshops throughout the Jersey City public school system with the Educational Arts Team, a private nonprofit organization. Ms. Cappello has a strong background in ballet and modern dance and has performed with a number of butoh-based choreographers in New York city.
Lydia Chrisman
www.lydiachrisman.com
lydiachrisman@gmail.com
Lydia Chrisman is an educator, dancer and Alexander Technique teacher. She has been teaching music and dance in NYC public and private schools since 2012, primarily through Third Street Music School Settlement, where she also directs a children’s choir. Since 2016 Lydia has also been a teacher-trainer for the Department of Education’s professional development track Create, supporting kindergarten teachers to use more music and movement in their classrooms. Starting in the fall of 2020, in addition to teaching music she has worked as a classroom teacher at German School Manhattan, a bilingual elementary school.
Lydia is an AmSat certified Alexander Technique teacher, graduating from the Balance Arts Center in 2020. She also completed The Developing Self, a postgraduate training course for Alexander Technique teachers working in education.
Originally from Switzerland, Lydia moved to the USA to study dance at Bennington College. She speaks German, English, French and basic Hebrew.
Karen Coe
karen.coe222@gmail.com
Over the course of our lives, we develop patterns of movement and posture that become unconscious and habitual. These patterns of misuse may limit movement, alter vocal production, or lead to chronic pain. Using the Alexander Technique, I guide students, teaching them to become aware of their patterns of misuse, by observing how they use their bodies in all their activities: walking, standing, sitting, and singing. With gentle hands and verbal instruction, students start to become aware of these chronic tensions that they hold in their bodies and how to inhibit these old patterns. This allows for ease and coordination in the body and freedom in the voice, movement, and breath. I work with singers, actors, performers, or anyone who wants to have composure, balance, and self-assurance in their everyday life. I also employ CranioSacral Therapy, which works below the conscious mind to calm the nervous system, allowing the flow of the natural rhythms of the bones and fluids in the body. This healing modality enhances the conscious learning of the Alexander Technique by releasing these deeper tensions.
Rena Anya Devéza
alextechmanhattan.com
rmdeveza@mac.com
Rena is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and a graduate of the Balance Arts Center. She teaches privately on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and at the Balance Arts Center. Lessons are offered in English and French. Rena is a classical flutist and flute teacher, a digital and analog photographer, and a certified Apple technician. She holds advanced degrees from the Columbia University Department of French, where she specialized in interdisciplinary studies of music and literature. Rena loves working with flutists, and indeed, all musicians. She feels especially aligned to helping people with all sorts of disabilities, as she came to the Alexander Technique after undergoing an extensive neurosurgery to correct a dangerous stenosis of her cervical spine.
Tracy Einstein
www.tracyeinstein.com
tracyeinstein@gmail.com
Tracy’s an Alexander Technique Teacher and movement educator for people who seek sustainable movement for creative action. Her style as an educator dances at the intersection of embodiment, mindful practice, play, and community. She currently practices at the Balance Arts Center, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Completely Ridiculous Conservatory where she facilitates AT and movement classes. She’s done pedagogical training with Christopher Bayes (Theatrical Clown), Lincoln Center Education (Teaching Artistry) and the Balance Arts Center (Alexander Technique), where she completed the 1600 hr AmSAT certified Teacher Training Course under the mentorship of Ann Rodiger. She’s a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Training. Study with her in NYC, Northampton MA, or online; www.tracyeinstein.com
Jay Foote
www.alexandertechniquedsm.com
jayfoote@gmail.com
Jay Foote has been teaching the Alexander Technique at the Balance Arts Center in New York City since he certified to teach in 2013. He worked as a Senior Assistant on the BAC’s Teacher Training course from 2015-2020. From 2018 to 2020, he served on the Board of Directors as a Member-at-Large for the American Society for Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT).
As a professional bassist, Foote performed on Broadway’s “Hamilton”, “Dear Evan Hansen”, “Waitress” and “The Band’s Visit”. As producer and sideman, he performed, recorded, and toured with many of America's finest musicians and songwriters.
Georgette Garbès-Putzel
georgett@garbesputzel.com
www.garbesputzel.com
Georgette, a certified AmSAT Alexander Teacher, trained at the Balance Arts Center under Ann Rodiger. Georgette is also a stage and acting explorer-creator, actress, director, and playwright. Her play ‘Fugato Labile for Camille Claudel’ was produced in Bucharest and in Brussels. See her website.
To her teaching of the Alexander Technique, Georgette will bring her respect for the other person, her curiosity about the body/mind in stillness, in movement and in space; her experience in acting and coaching actors; her patient and explorative pedagogy after years of teaching French (she has a master’s in teaching foreign languages). Georgette works in English and in French and feels comfortable with foreign accents.
Georgette has lived, been educated, and worked in North Africa, France, Canada, and the USA. For her ‘Life is a mosaic; diversity is essential.’
Allie Kronick
alliekronick@gmail.com
Allie Kronick (she/her) is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher and dance educator based out of Brooklyn, NY. She graduated magna cum laude from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University. In addition to her 10+ years of professional performance experience, Allie has taught for and created on numerous young artists across the US and abroad and was a founding faculty member teaching contemporary dance for the Professional Training Programs at the Martha Graham School. Allie enjoys working with a wide range of communities and teaches private lessons and group AT classes at the Balance Arts Center and Movement Research. Her teaching is informed by her continued pursuit of a more sustainable and joyful movement practice and life.
Kyra Miller Himmelbaum
kyramilleractress.wordpress.com
miller.kyra@gmail.com
Kyra Miller Himmelbaum was certified to teach the Alexander Technique through the Balance Arts Center in May of 2016. An actress and singer, she holds an MFA in acting from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has taught acting at Tulane University, Montclair State University and the University of Washington. A former dancer, she also taught Pilates for 15 years all over the world (certified in 1999 by the Pilates Center in Boulder, Colorado). Her Alexander practice currently focuses on helping performers find greater expression and freedom in their work.
Alice MacDonald
www.alicemac.com
alice@alicemac.com
Alice is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher. She trained and certified under the direction of Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center. Currently, Alice teaches both private and group AT sessions in multiple locations in New York City and Southern Maine, including the Balance Arts Center (NY) and Movement Research (NY). She enjoys working with a wide range of communities including performing artists. Alice is involved in the dance community as a performer, collaborator and teaching artist in both New York and Maine.
Mike Maher
maherjazz@gmail.com
Mike Maher is a trumpeter, singer and an AmSAT certified teacher who trained at the Balance Arts Center. He is a multi-Grammy award winning musician and has spent the past fifteen years exploring the relationship between the principles of the Alexander Technique and musical practice and performance. He teaches privately in Quincy, MA, as well as in New York City. He has taught at Berklee College of Music on the topic of using the Alexander Technique to improve brass playing, and is dedicated to helping students gain more flow in performance through this wonderful practice.
Miles Mandwelle
Miles Mandwelle is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. Trained as a stage director, his work has been seen at the NYFringe, Lincoln Center Education, and The Tank, and ran Taksu Theatre Company from 2013-2015, which covered everything from Menotti to clown shows. Miles is equally at home as a pianist, accordionist, and music director, playing master classes and auditions, as well as for devised theater (clown and commedia, namely) and burlesque. He certified as an Alexander teacher in June of 2020.
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller graduated from the Balance Arts Center in December 2015. In addition to having her Alexander Technique Certification she is a performing violinist in New York City and Executive Director of the Hudson Heights String Academy, dedicated to teaching New York City youth string instruments and integrating the Alexander principles as a part of their training.
Kari Ostensen
ostensenkari@gmail.com
Kari is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher and independent movement artist based in New Haven and New York City. Their teaching explores choice, agency, habits, spatial thinking, and mind-body connections. Kari is particularly interested in working with performers, queer and trans students, and students with hypermobility, EDS, or other chronic conditions. As someone living with chronic illness, they prioritize dialogue, consent, and an anti-ableist framework in all of their teaching and performance work.
Tim Pyper
www.timpyper.com
tpyper@gmail.com
Tim Pyper studied the Alexander Technique with Ann Rodiger and is a 2018 graduate of the Balance Arts Center. A professional classical musician, he has won critical acclaim for his work as an organist and choral conductor. With degrees from Cornell University and the Eastman School of music, he currently directs the music program at Church of the Holy Apostles in Manhattan. Tim teaches the Alexander Technique as well as the Lister-Sink Method of keyboard pedagogy. He works in New York City and in Albany.
Lindy Rogers
Lindy Rogers is an Actress, Director and an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher based out of New York City. She teaches privately and at the Balance Arts Center. She also teaches movement courses at St. Margaret’s House with a focus on balance and mobility. Her special interest is in working with the elder population; especially in relation to walkers and canes as a reference point for getting back to balancing on two legs. Lindy enjoys working with all walks of life in broadening their awareness of themselves and the 3-D world in which they live.
Gabrielle Scott
sapphireprods@gmail.com
Gabrielle Scott is a Trinidadian theater-maker, performance artist, teaching artist and writer. As a recipient of the Judith Leibowith Scholarship fund, Gabrielle is an AMSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She works with both performing artists and non-performing artists. Her calling is to use art as a means of activism, healing and empowerment while shedding light on Truth.
Takehiro Shimizu
www.takehiroshimizu.com
takehirosmz@gmail.com
Takehiro is an Alexander Technique Teacher and teaches private lessons and group classes in NYC and Osaka (Japan). He graduated from the Balance Arts Center and also holds a bachelor degree in Human Science from Konan University in Kobe Japan. Takehiro also has been working as a jazz drummer for more than 20 years.
Eli Sibley
www.elisibley.com
eli.sibley@yahoo.com
An actor and theatre professional for over 20 years, Eli's credits include production, playwrighting, choreography, and movement coaching, nationally and internationally. Drawn primarily to pieces with movement, she subsequently created her own, Born of a Fairytale, a one woman storytelling piece, produced both in DC and New York to great applause. The inaugural production of the company she founded with her husband, Vacant Lot Theatre Co, was privileged to work closely with renowned playwright, Erik Ehn, bringing Child's Drawing of a Monster to its world premier in New York and then moving it to Boston. Along with her MFA and AmSat Alexander Technique certification, she is a certified Laban Movement Analyst. Her passion is unifying varying Acting techniques through the body. She continues to work across the country and globe helping bring the Alexander Technique to Performance curriculum but also with local Twin Cities theater companies and acting studios, most notably the Guthrie Theatre. When she is not teaching, she is mommy-ing up a storm. For more info, please visit www.elisibley.com
Jessica Spira
jtfgoldring@gmail.com
Jessica Spira is a vocalist and Alexander Technique teacher, living in Concarneau, France. She has performed with the Ohio Light Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, the Caramoor Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Franz Schubert Institut, Eugene Opera, Liederkranz Opera Theater, Les Rencontres Musicales in Enghien, Belgium and The New York Repertory Theater. In 2009, together with filmmaker Noe Kidder and actress Marianna Vogt, Jessica founded Exilkabarett. The group has performed at several NYC venues including Dixon Place, the Brecht Forum, The Tank, Millennium Film Workshop, Mono No Aware, The Drilling Company, The Anyway Café and Petite Versailles. Continued exploration of themes of migration and exile has generated performances with the Hartford New Music Festival, the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, The Dada Spill Project, Spectrum NYC and the Cell Theatre. Jessica completed the Alexander Technique Teacher Training program at the Balance Arts Center (BAC) in the Spring of 2018. As part of her training, she was invited to assist as in an Alexander Technique teacher in programs for opera singers at the Singingcourse Bevern, in Antwerp and at the BAC.
Allyna Steinberg
www.alexandertechniqueforliving.com
allynasteinberg@gmail.com
Allyna offers private lessons in the evenings and weekends in midtown or the upper west side, or via home or office sessions at your location in New York City or Ulster County. She has used the technique to relieve pain, heal and regain strength after surgery, improve her posture and vocal clarity, create more connection on the dance floor, and more. She also holds a Master of Public Health degree giving her a broad knowledge of health which she incorporates into her teaching. Allyna brings the Alexander Technique into all aspects of living and can help you do the same.
Photo: Aria Isadora
Pyeng Threadgill
pyengnyc.com
lessons@pyengnyc.com
Pyeng Threadgill is a voice & movement teacher and vocalist/songwriter. Her teaching approaches the voice with an emphasis on slowing down and offering accessible and healthy vocal technique for all styles of music. Ms Threadgill guides aspiring/professional singer/songwriters to refocus on the joy and pleasure of singing rather than self-judgment. By connecting to the breath, body and movement students develop a holistic voice practice thereby eliciting each individual's Soul music and what she calls The Embodied Artist Method TM.
As a performer Pyeng has been described as “charmingly eclectic" by St Louis Today. Singing ‘New Porch Music’ she crafts an intimate journey through folk and Jazz with Afro- electronic inflections. In her fourth solo album and multimedia project entitled Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song, Ms. Threadgill shines a light on hair, adornment, and ancestry and the political well as spiritual implications of race, hair and identity.
Pyeng is a recipient of the fellowship in music composition from New York Foundation for the Arts for her album Portholes To A Love & Other Short Stories. In 2018 she was featured by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment on "A Day's Work" showcasing the work of three working musicians living in New York. And in March, 2019 Pyeng's narration for the audio book Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham was named Best Multi-Voiced Performance by the Audie Awards.
Pyeng currently works and teaches from her home in Brooklyn, NY where she lives with her daughter and husband. She is a level 3 Somatic Voicework teacher and AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique) certified Alexander Technique teacher.
Jill Usdan
Jill Usdan was born and raised in New York City where she began acting professionally at the age of five. After graduating from Barnard College of Columbia University as a theatre major and recipient of the Kenneth Janes Theatre Prize, Jill pursued her passion for acting in her home town, which led her to the Alexander Technique. She immediately fell in love with the technique for the freedom of movement it gave her both on and off stage. Jill thrives in her other artistic identities beyond teaching the Alexander Technique: she has freelanced as a photographer, specializing in Off-Broadway production and publicity photos that have been published in The New York Times, on Playbill.com, VillageVoice.com, and other publications. Jill is also a singer-songwriter. Her EP "Numbers" can be found on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.com.
Sarah White-Ayon
www.sarahwhite-ayon.com
white.sb@gmail.com
Sarah White-Ayón is a professional dancer, visual artist, and a 2007 graduate of the Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course at Balance Arts Center. Since 2007 she has been teaching private lessons and group classes in movement, somatic awareness, and the Alexander Technique at various schools throughout NYC including Balance Arts Center, Movement Research, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Fifth Line, CLASSCLASSCLASS, Parson’s School of Design, and NYU. She works with students to help build a deeper connection with their bodies as well as to discover sustainable, supportive resources for moving, being, attending to desire, and engaging in a process for change. Her classes focus on building awareness through sensory tracking, finding and freeing the breath, structural mapping, directional support, and listening and responding to the signals of the body. As an artist, she makes work that spans and intersects the disciplines of dance, somatics, performance, video/film, sculpture, sound, and collage. Her work has been presented through various venues and organizations including Roulette, Movement Research, Strange Loop Gallery, SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery, AUNTS, and The Philadelphia Fringe Festival. As a dancer, she has performed and/or collaborated in the work of such artists as Walter Dundervill, Jessica Hutchins, Eve Sussman and Simon Lee, robbinschilds, Isabel Lewis, Felicia Ballos, Nancy Garcia, Flora Weigman, Rebecca Brooks, Jennifer Monson, Levi Gonzalez, Alex Escalante, Juliette Mapp, Simone Coutu, Jeanine Olsen, architect, Angel Ayón and 3D photographer, Gerald Marks among others. She currently dances with Antonio Ramos and The Gangbangers and Luciana Achugar. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from UMKC (1999) and an MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts (2011).
Holly Wilder
www.hollywilder.com/alexandertechnique
hollymwilder@gmail.com
Holly Wilder is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, and Alexander Technique teacher based in Brooklyn. Named by Dance Magazine as one of “nine screendance artists you should know about”, her and her cinematographer brother comprise the filmmaking duo, Wilder Project. Their 20 dance films have screened at over 50 film festivals on 5 continents winning 13 awards. Holly is also a musical theater performer, and her professional theater credits include the national tour of Brothers of the Knight directed by Debbie Allen, Grease with Royal Caribbean International, and regional productions of A Chorus Line, West Side Story, An American In Paris, Rock of Ages, Beauty and the Beast, and A Christmas Story, among others. Holly is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance. There she was a recipient of the Alumni Award for Academic Achievement, earning the second highest academic rank in her graduating class. Holly has over 5 years of experience teaching a variety of styles of dance to pre-professional students in the trial-state area.
Holly is also an AmSAT Certified Alexander Technique teacher, graduating from the Balance Arts Center under the direction of Ann Rodiger in 2023. She offers private Alexander sessions in NYC. Alexander Technique has helped Holly through multiple injuries, transformed her dancing and performing, and greatly affected her life perspective and mental health, among many other benefits. She loves meeting people where they’re at with a curious/nonjudgmental approach and offering guidance to explore physical habits, balance, alignment, awareness, and beyond. A core value Holly holds is making space for her own and others healing so that we are all more able to enjoy our lives, feel connected to each other, and fight for a more rational society. For more information about her teaching practice check out www.hollywilder.com/alexandertechnique.
Albany & Troy, NY
Tim Pyper
www.timpyper.com
tpyper@gmail.com
Tim Pyper studied the Alexander Technique with Ann Rodiger and is a 2018 graduate of the Balance Arts Center. A professional classical musician, he has won critical acclaim for his work as an organist and choral conductor. With degrees from Cornell University and the Eastman School of music, he currently directs the music program at Church of the Holy Apostles in Manhattan. Tim teaches the Alexander Technique as well as the Lister-Sink Method of keyboard pedagogy. He works in New York City and in Albany.
New Haven, Connecticut
Kari Ostensen
ostensenkari@gmail.com
Kari is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher and independent movement artist based in New Haven and New York City. Their teaching explores choice, agency, habits, spatial thinking, and mind-body connections. Kari is particularly interested in working with performers, queer and trans students, and students with hypermobility, EDS, or other chronic conditions. As someone living with chronic illness, they prioritize dialogue, consent, and an anti-ableist framework in all of their teaching and performance work.
Miami, Florida
Georgios Argeratos
holisticawarenesscenter.com
georgios@holisticawarenesscenter.com
Georgios has a classical music and singing background and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Opera Performance. His continued interest to develop his vocal technique and his performance skills in opera introduced him to the Alexander technique in The Juilliard School in New York. After he experienced a significant change in his performances and overall in his life, he decided to study the technique. He graduated from Balance Arts Center in New York and became a certified Alexander technique teacher and a member of the American Society of the Alexander Technique. As Georgios believes that mind, body and spirit are one, he has enriched his overall practice with the energy medicine modality of “Healing Touch” and has also become a certified “Breatheology” method instructor, in order to also offer his clients the ability to improve their breathing and enhance their overall heal. During the past 11 years, Georgios has also been a music teacher and a school principal in private New York schools and he has performed with Dicapo Opera, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Regina Opera, Amore Opera, Thessaloniki Opera, Rhodes International festival while also promoting Greek operetta in the US through events and performances in schools and Universities. Universities. Georgios today spends his time between Florida and Greece with his partner Christina and their son Micah. He is the co-founder of The Holistic Awareness Center in Miami & Athens, and you can also find him at the Balance Arts Center.
Maine
Matt Cahill
mattcahill.online
matt@mattcahill.online
Matt Cahill pursues singing-acting at the highest level. Highlights of his performance career include starring as Papageno in the international tour of Peter Brook’s Molière Award-winning adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute, Une Flûte Enchantée, performing with the New York City Opera and London Symphony Orchestra, singing as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, dancing in the major motion picture The Producers!, and appearing as a co-star in Law & Order SVU. Highlights of his teaching career include acting as lead faculty of Juilliard’s High School summer voice program, teaching Alexander Technique to singers from the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, directing the young artist program at SongFest at Colburn, and teaching and directing the opera workshops at both Brooklyn College Conservatory and Montclair State University. Matt is the co-founder and co-director of ATsinging (atsinging.com), dedicated to the original intent of the Alexander Technique to bring freedom and ease to the human voice. Most recently, he has co-founded Hogfish (hogfish.org), a performing arts and artist training company in Portland, ME and New York, NY dedicated to regenerative theater: making the world a better place through the stories we tell, how we engage with our community, and how we train the next generation of artists. BM voice Juilliard School. MM vocal arts Bard College Conservatory. AmSAT certification Balance Arts Center.
Alice MacDonald
www.alicemac.com
alice@alicemac.com
Alice is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher. She trained and certified under the direction of Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center. Currently, Alice teaches both private and group AT sessions in multiple locations in New York City and Southern Maine, including the Balance Arts Center (NY) and Movement Research (NY). She enjoys working with a wide range of communities including performing artists. Alice is involved in the dance community as a performer, collaborator and teaching artist in both New York and Maine.
Amherst, Massachusetts
Kate Martel
www.katemartel.com
katiejmartel@gmail.com
Kate is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. After studying the AT for over ten years, Kate trained and certified under the direction of Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center, graduating in 2017. She currently resides in Western Massachusetts where she teaches the Alexander Technique at Westfield State University, the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, and privately. This work has supported her dancing career over 15 years in New York City and continues to resonate deeply as she teaches dance and performs throughout the Pioneer Valley. She also holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and a BA from Goucher College.
Boston, Massachusetts
Mike Maher
maherjazz@gmail.com
Mike Maher is a trumpeter, singer and an AmSAT certified teacher who trained at the Balance Arts Center. He is a multi-Grammy award winning musician and has spent the past fifteen years exploring the relationship between the principles of the Alexander Technique and musical practice and performance. He teaches privately in Quincy, MA, as well as in New York City. He has taught at Berklee College of Music on the topic of using the Alexander Technique to improve brass playing, and is dedicated to helping students gain more flow in performance through this wonderful practice.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Richie Barshay
richiebarshay@gmail.com
Richie Barshay is a percussionist, music educator, and AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. As a performer, he’s worked with Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Lee Konitz, Natalie Merchant, Bobby McFerrin, and Pete Seeger among others. Since 2004, he has led musical exchanges across 5 continents as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department. Dubbed "a major rhythm voice on the rise" by Downbeat Magazine, The Guardian (UK) calls him "the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun." Based in New York City, he can be heard on over 75 recordings including his latest release as leader, Sanctuary (2014), featuring Chick Corea.
Tracy Einstein
www.tracyeinstein.com
tracyeinstein@gmail.com
Tracy’s an Alexander Technique Teacher and movement educator for people who seek sustainable movement for creative action. Her style as an educator dances at the intersection of embodiment, mindful practice, play, and community. She currently practices at the Balance Arts Center, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Completely Ridiculous Conservatory where she facilitates AT and movement classes. She’s done pedagogical training with Christopher Bayes (Theatrical Clown), Lincoln Center Education (Teaching Artistry) and the Balance Arts Center (Alexander Technique), where she completed the 1600 hr AmSAT certified Teacher Training Course under the mentorship of Ann Rodiger. She’s a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Training. Study with her in NYC, Northampton MA, or online; www.tracyeinstein.com
Franklin Park/Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Jay Winston
Jay Winston is a vocal music teacher at The Pingry School in Basking Ridge, NJ, having begun in 2008. At Pingry, Jay teaches Middle School and Upper School sopranos and altos in multiple ensemble, and he is the vocal music director for the Winter musicals. His select high school ensemble competes annually at music festivals receiving the highest ratings, and they also participate in vocal festivals and workshops. Jay has worked musically with New Jersey school honors ensembles and has led Alexander Technique workshops with the New Jersey Youth Chorus. He has been teaching private voice lessons since 1999 and is on faculty at the Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Conservatory.
Jay is a New Jersey based lyric tenor. He has performed as the tenor soloist in concerts throughout the tri-state area in works including Schubert’s Mass in G, Mendelssohn’s Gloria, Haydn’s Creation Mass, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Haydn’s Creation, and Schubert’s Mass in G. As an operatic tenor, Jay has been seen in operas including Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lucia di Lammermoor, Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute, Acis and Galatea, Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Tosca, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. Most recently he ventured into the world of musical theater taking on the role of Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd. He is a certified Alexander Technique instructor, having studied at the Balance Arts Center in NYC, and is a graduate of Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance.
Voice lessons through the lens of Alexander Technique are currently offered in a virtual format.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Heather Gardner
heather.m.gardner@me.com
Heather Gardner is a Philadelphia and New York City based soprano and violinist/violist. She holds a Bachelor of Music from The Eastman School of Music, a Masters of Music from Rutgers University and is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique instructor through the Balance Arts Center. She teaches both voice and Alexander Technique in Philadelphia and New York City and is interested in helping her students find greater freedom of choice in their daily lives as well as on the stage.
Des Moines, Iowa
Jay Foote
www.alexandertechniquedsm.com
jayfoote@gmail.com
Jay Foote has been teaching the Alexander Technique at the Balance Arts Center in New York City since he certified to teach in 2013. He worked as a Senior Assistant on the BAC’s Teacher Training course from 2015-2020. From 2018 to 2020, he served on the Board of Directors as a Member-at-Large for the American Society for Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT).
As a professional bassist, Foote performed on Broadway’s “Hamilton”, “Dear Evan Hansen”, “Waitress” and “The Band’s Visit”. As producer and sideman, he performed, recorded, and toured with many of America's finest musicians and songwriters.
Jericho, Vermont
Georgette Garbès-Putzel
georgett@garbesputzel.com
www.garbesputzel.com
Georgette, a certified AmSAT Alexander Teacher, trained at the Balance Arts Center under Ann Rodiger. Georgette is also a stage and acting explorer-creator, actress, director, and playwright. Her play ‘Fugato Labile for Camille Claudel’ was produced in Bucharest and in Brussels. See her website.
To her teaching of the Alexander Technique, Georgette will bring her respect for the other person, her curiosity about the body/mind in stillness, in movement and in space; her experience in acting and coaching actors; her patient and explorative pedagogy after years of teaching French (she has a master’s in teaching foreign languages). Georgette works in English and in French and feels comfortable with foreign accents.
Georgette has lived, been educated, and worked in North Africa, France, Canada, and the USA. For her ‘Life is a mosaic; diversity is essential.’
Canada
Afton Toler
Afton received her AmSAT certification at the BAC in October 2019. She discovered the Alexander Technique while recovering from an injury sustained while dancing professionally, and is excited to be able to pass on the work to other dancers and people dealing with chronic pain. She has previously taught at the Balance Arts Center and Movement Research in New York, and is currently living and teaching in the Pacific Northwest.
Shanghai, China
Ayu Wang
ayuwangwork@foxmail.com
Ayu Wang is a certified Alexander Technique teacher. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique for musicians in New York and Shanghai, China for many years.
Ayu is the only one certified AT teacher in mainland China. She is a faculty of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Orchestra Academy.
Ayu holds a Certification from Balance Arts Center in the AT approved by the American Society of Alexander Technique and Alexander Technique International. She also holds a Master’s Degree in classical cello performance from Manhattan school of Music and a Bachelor’s Degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Athens, Greece
Georgios Argeratos
holisticawarenesscenter.com
georgios@holisticawarenesscenter.com
Georgios has a classical music and singing background and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Opera Performance. His continued interest to develop his vocal technique and his performance skills in opera introduced him to the Alexander technique in The Juilliard School in New York. After he experienced a significant change in his performances and overall in his life, he decided to study the technique. He graduated from Balance Arts Center in New York and became a certified Alexander technique teacher and a member of the American Society of the Alexander Technique. As Georgios believes that mind, body and spirit are one, he has enriched his overall practice with the energy medicine modality of “Healing Touch” and has also become a certified “Breatheology” method instructor, in order to also offer his clients the ability to improve their breathing and enhance their overall heal. During the past 11 years, Georgios has also been a music teacher and a school principal in private New York schools and he has performed with Dicapo Opera, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Regina Opera, Amore Opera, Thessaloniki Opera, Rhodes International festival while also promoting Greek operetta in the US through events and performances in schools and Universities. Georgios today spends his time between New York City and Athens, with his partner Christina and their son Micah. You can find him teaching in Balance Arts Center in NY, and in The Holistic Awareness Center in Athens, Greece as the co-founder.
Burgundy, France
Georgette Garbès-Putzel
georgett@garbesputzel.com
www.garbesputzel.com
Georgette, a certified AmSAT Alexander Teacher, trained at the Balance Arts Center under Ann Rodiger. Georgette is also a stage and acting explorer-creator, actress, director, and playwright. Her play ‘Fugato Labile for Camille Claudel’ was produced in Bucharest and in Brussels. See her website.
To her teaching of the Alexander Technique, Georgette will bring her respect for the other person, her curiosity about the body/mind in stillness, in movement and in space; her experience in acting and coaching actors; her patient and explorative pedagogy after years of teaching French (she has a master’s in teaching foreign languages). Georgette works in English and in French and feels comfortable with foreign accents.
Georgette has lived, been educated, and worked in North Africa, France, Canada, and the USA. For her ‘Life is a mosaic; diversity is essential.’
Quimper Region, France
Jessica Spira
jtfgoldring@gmail.com
Jessica Spira is a vocalist and Alexander Technique teacher, living in Concarneau, France. She has performed with the Ohio Light Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, the Caramoor Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Franz Schubert Institut, Eugene Opera, Liederkranz Opera Theater, Les Rencontres Musicales in Enghien, Belgium and The New York Repertory Theater. In 2009, together with filmmaker Noe Kidder and actress Marianna Vogt, Jessica founded Exilkabarett. The group has performed at several NYC venues including Dixon Place, the Brecht Forum, The Tank, Millennium Film Workshop, Mono No Aware, The Drilling Company, The Anyway Café and Petite Versailles. Continued exploration of themes of migration and exile has generated performances with the Hartford New Music Festival, the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, The Dada Spill Project, Spectrum NYC and the Cell Theatre. Jessica completed the Alexander Technique Teacher Training program at the Balance Arts Center (BAC) in the Spring of 2018. As part of her training, she was invited to assist as in an Alexander Technique teacher in programs for opera singers at the Singingcourse Bevern, in Antwerp and at the BAC.
Osaka, Japan
Takehiro Shimizu
www.takehiroshimizu.com
takehirosmz@gmail.com
Takehiro is an Alexander Technique Teacher and teaches private lessons and group classes in NYC and Osaka (Japan). He graduated from the Balance Arts Center and also holds a bachelor degree in Human Science from Konan University in Kobe Japan. Takehiro also has been working as a jazz drummer for more than 20 years.
Tokyo, Japan
Eiko Kanamoto
www.easemethod.net
ekokanamoto@yahoo.co.jp
Lugano, Switzerland
Julie Edwards
Julie Edwards Frazier-Smith became an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher in December 2014. She graduated from the Balance Arts Center in New York, NY. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Dance and Theater from Middle Tennessee State University. Julie currently resides in Lugano, Switzerland where she teaches Dance and Theater at The American School in Switzerland to K-12th graders. She is interested in seeing the processes of the Alexander Technique transform the classroom. She continues to be an active dancer and choreographer and offers private AT sessions from her home in Lugano, CH.
Trinidad and Tobago
Gabrielle Scott
sapphireprods@gmail.com
Gabrielle Scott is a Trinidadian theater-maker, performance artist, teaching artist and writer. As a recipient of the Judith Leibowith Scholarship fund, Gabrielle is an AMSAT certified Alexander Technique Teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She works with both performing artists and non-performing artists. Her calling is to use art as a means of activism, healing and empowerment while shedding light on Truth.