Aldo Ruiz Alonso

Full Body Resonance and Flow for Violinists and Violists (Presented in English and Spanish)

Aldo is a violist, music teacher, and Alexander Technique trainee at the Balance Arts Center. As a violist, they’ve toured extensively around Mexico and California with prominent professional ensembles, including the Orquesta de Baja California, of which they were a member before moving to NYC for their Alexander Technique studies.

Aldo holds two degrees in viola performance, a Bachelor of Music from the Autonomous University of Baja California (2015), and a Master of Music from San Diego State University (2018).

Aldo feels fortunate to play a 2021 viola by Claudia Reynoso, one of Mexico's most prominent luthiers.

Allie Kronick

Fundamentals in Flow, Balance & Stability

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.

Andrea Grody

The Alexander Technique and Conducting, from the Piano and the Podium

Andrea Grody is a Grammy, Olivier, and Drama Desk Award-nominated music director with a focus on developing new work. She was most recently the music supervisor & director of the Broadway musical Suffs, which won the Tony Award for Best Score. She also music directed & supervised the Broadway musical adaptation of Tootsie and the 10-time Tony Award-winning musical The Band’s Visit. Other favorite credits include productions at the Public Theater, Atlantic Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Andrea’s writing credits include the full-length musical Strange Faces and several songs for The Civilian’s Let Me Ascertain You series.

Andrea graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, and she holds a Master’s degree with Highest Honors in Musical Theatre Music Directing from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is Associate Director and Resident Music Director at New York Vocal Coaching and the creator of WordWaves.

Ann Rodiger

AT and Self-Empowerment for Performers with Disabilities
AT Principles in a Nutshell
Deliberate Practice
The Alexander Technique and Conducting, from the Piano and the Podium
The Hypermobile Dancer

Ann Rodiger is the Founder and Director of the Balance Arts Center and the BAC Teacher Training Program. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique for over 40 years, Rodiger teaches internationally in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. She has also adapted the Alexander principles to work for those with hypermobility and Ehlers Danlos Syndromes. As a former dancer, Ann enjoys working with performing artists in all disciplines.

Bryan Bisordi

AT Lie-Down: Daily Mind-Body Reset
Balance and Poise for Drummers
Speed in Your Art Form

Bryan Bisordi is a drummer, educator, and AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. Bryan is a dedicated teacher, and is passionate about helping grow the Alexander Technique to more people and communities. As a drummer, he has toured for 20 years, performing internationally on 4 continents, and recorded and performed with artists of all genres. He has performed on Broadway as a sub in Kinky Boots, Tootsie, and Waitress. Bryan received his Bachelors degree in Jazz Performance from William Paterson University, and studied extensively with legendary drum teacher Michael Carvin

Eiko Kanamoto

The Tongue in General and the Japanese Language

Eiko Kanamoto has studied the Alexander Technique since 2000 and graduated from the Balance Arts Center in 2006. Based in Tokyo and regularly teaching in Hiroshima, she primarily teaches vocalists and musicians. Between 2014 and 2018, Eiko worked with higher brain dysfunctions, improving their balance, standing, and jogging. She is also a certified health and exercise instructor and practice instructor in Japan and plans to offer group lessons for people over 60 years old.

Eli Sibley

Alexander Technique for the Actor
AT Lie-Down: Daily Mind-Body Reset

Eli Sibley is an independent artist and educator with 30 years of training and experience in movement and theatre. An actor for over twenty years, with credits from the California Shakespeare Festival to the Shanghai Experimental Theatre, she transitioned into education when she earned her AmSAT Alexander Technique and Laban Movement Certifications. As a Twin Cities native, Eli brings movement and acting instruction to local and national theatre companies and curriculum, including The Children’s Theatre Company, the Guthrie Theatre, the University of Minnesota, Dramatic Adventure Theatre, and New World School of the Arts. Most recently she added Corporate Training to her resume, instructing at 3M and Deloitte. Additional theatrical credits include production, playwriting, and direction. Most recently she created a community piece based on motherhood and gun violence, Mama Don’t Lose It. She was a member of the National Women’s Theatre Festival cohort where she directed the U.S. Premiere of The Grandmother’s Grimm. She has produced her one- woman piece, Born of a Fairytale, in the Twin Cities, DC, and New York. She is a founding member of Vacant Lot Theatre in New York, an Artistic Associate With Classical Actors Ensemble, and proud Mama of two. Her MFA is from the Catholic University of America.

Elizabeth Miller

AT and the Violin

Elizabeth Miller is a professional violinist in the New York City area for over 30 years.
She has played on Broadway, currently plays with the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s and New York Scandia Symphony but actively freelanced at Lincoln Center and all over the Metropolitan area. She also runs the Hudson Heights String Academy for Young string players.

A recent graduate of The Balance Arts Center she holds certification from AmSat and has taken Workshops with Robyn Avalon in Santa Fe like Living in a Body and Professional Enrichment. She is currently teaching in upper Manhattan and is on Facebook and Instagram

Gabrielle Scott

Listening as a Language
Presence

Gabrielle Scott is a Trinidadian theater-maker: director, actor/singer and playwright who incorporates Alexander Technique in everything she does. Specializing in physical theater, classical work and her original work, she aims to create safe spaces that encourage true freedom of expression. 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.

Hailey McAvoy

AT and Self-Empowerment for Performers with Disabilities
PANELIST: Voice & Alexander Technique - What Happened?

Hailey McAvoy is a versatile performer of opera, song, and concert. McAvoy’s recent operatic performances include appearing as Mem in Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex (Opera Omaha) and as Julia Child in Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appetit (Opera Praktikos). Additional roles in her repertoire include Third Lady (The Magic Flute; MassOpera), Third Woodsprite (Dvorak, Rusalka; Opera Ithaca), the Page of Herodias (Strauss, Salome; Fisher Center of Performing Arts), The Taller Daughter (Mazzoli, Proving Up; Aspen Music Festival), Zosha (Heggie, Out of Darkness; Eastman Opera Theater), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro; Aquilon Music Festival), and in select performances as a Young Artist with Cedar Rapids Opera and Opera Ithaca.

In 2024, McAvoy was an artist in residence at Hogfish Regenerative Arts Portland, Maine, where, in addition to singing the role of Newspaper Vendor in Poulenc’s Breasts of Tiresias, she began developing Wholly Unwinding, a concert of original music which explores themes of disability, accessibility, and what it means to feel at home in one’s body.

As a performer with the neurological condition Cerebral Palsy, McAvoy is committed to amplifying the discussion around disability in the arts in order to make the performing arts more inclusive for all. She recently published essays on accessibility in the arts in AGMAzine and Our Singing Bodies and has appeared as a panelist with such organizations as the National Endowment For the Arts, National Sawdust, Opera Ithaca and Opera NexGen.

Heather Gardner

Balanced Breathing for Wind Players, Singers and Voice Users
Full Body Resonance and Flow for Violinists and Violists (Presented in English and Spanish)
PANELIST: Voice & Alexander Technique - What Happened?

Heather Gardner is a singer and music teacher living, working and teaching in the Philadelphia and New York City areas. She specializes in singing 20th and 21st century works though she is equally comfortable singing Brahms, Mozart or Bach. She holds a Master’s degree in vocal performance from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she also studied violin and voice. She has performed extensively with a variety of groups as a soloist, including Alarm Will Sound, The Albany Symphony Orchestra, SFSound, the Dogs of Desire, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Musica Tevere, the Society for Ancient Instruments, and Z-ensemble.

Heather enjoys teaching people of all ages and abilities in a variety of genres from classical to musical theater and jazz. Her studio hosts Music Together® classes for babies and toddlers, Suzuki voice and violin classes for children and Alexander Technique-inspired voice lessons and classes for adult beginners and professional singers. She is passionate about helping people find their own way to express themselves through sound and music with freedom and creativity. She recently completed her certification as a Deep Listening Facilitator and hopes to bring more improvisation and dream-inspired sounds to her teaching, performing and community-building.

Jay Foote

Enhancing Ensemble Performance: A Unique Approach using the Alexander Technique

Jay Foote is an Alexander Technique Teacher, musician, and mental health therapist in Des Moines, Iowa. After certifying to teach the Alexander Technique at the Balance Arts Center in 2013, Jay became a senior assistant trainer on the teacher training course, served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for the Alexander Technique from 2018 to 2020, and played a key role in securing additional funding for research related to the Alexander Technique.

He has performed as a professional musical director and bassist on stages worldwide, including Budokan in Tokyo, Hamilton on Broadway, and Late Night with David Letterman. He has appeared on over 150 albums. He is also a mental health therapist who helps his clients unlock their hidden potential and address the barriers created by anxiety and depression. He utilizes mindfulness and body awareness techniques to promote greater balance and flow in his clients' and students' minds and bodies.

Jenna Brixius

Lie Down for Musicians
Supporting Your Flute for Presence and Resonance

Jenna Brixius is a flutist, music educator, and certified Alexander Technique teacher based in New York City. Jenna dedicated the past decade to helping musicians learn how to creatively explore the principles underlying tone, air use, and instrumental virtuosity. As a performer, she has played with the Palm Beach Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific, the Florida Wind Symphony, and the South Florida Symphony Orchestra. Jenna has taught flute in the Mannes School of Music Pre-College music program, as well as the Querflöte Musikkurswochen in Switzerland. She has presented at the Florida Flute Association convention and judged for the Texas Music Educator Association All-State flute auditions. Jenna received her Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of Michel Debost, former principal flute of the Orchestra de Paris.

Jessica Spira

Taking Time to Pause in Breath, Sound and Movement

Jessica lives in the Finistère (the land’s end) region of Brittany, France where she currently teaches voice and the Alexander Technique at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the Archipel in Fouesnant as well as Novomax and the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts in Quimper. As a singer, Jessica has performed internationally in Europe and in America. Today, she co-organizes Live@La Rêverie: A Jazz and Classical Music Series together with her husband, Stéphane Spira. She also enjoys drawing, writing and exploring wide beaches and winding forest paths with her family and their dog Tempo.

Jill Usdan

AT Lie Down: Daily Mind-Body Reset
Unlocking Presence Through Performance

Jill is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University as a theater major and recipient of the Kenneth Janes Theater Prize. As a 1,600 hour AmSat certified Alexander Technique teacher, Jill has taught workshops and privately for nine years. She specializes in working with actors, singers and public speakers and is passionate about exploring the Alexander Technique as it relates to mental health. In addition to teaching, Jill is also a singer/songwriter and performer. You can listen to her EP, “Numbers” on Spotify. The first and last songs are jazz standards and the four in between are originals. Jill is also developing her one-woman musical called "The Haunted Trumpet", which is about facing what haunts you and healing your trauma through original songs, poems, spoken word and tap dancing.

Julie Frazier

Taking Time to Pause in Breath, Sound and Movement

Julie lives in Lugano, Switzerland where she teaches Dance and Musical Theater to children (K-12) at The American School in Switzerland. She directs and choreographs four main stage productions per year with these wonderful performing artists and is passionate about instilling the importance of imagination, creativity, live performance and community. Julie is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. She has received B.S. in Theater and Dance from Middle Tennessee State University and M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.

Karen Braga

Private Lessons Only

Her students have appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in Feature and Independent Films, TV series and as guest stars.
Questions? karen.braga.nyc@gmail.com

Karen Coe

Unlock Your Voice: Exploring Cranial Sacral Principles with the Alexander Technique

Karen Coe is a certified Alexander Technique teacher with over 35 years of experience specializing in working with singers and actors. Her expertise in applying the Alexander Technique to vocal performance stems from a unique combination of extensive training and personal experience. Originally certified by the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT), Karen furthered her studies at the Balance Arts Center (BAC), specifically to address and refine her own singing and speaking voice. This personal journey, coupled with her BAC training, provides her with an intimate understanding of the challenges faced by vocalists.

Karen's specialized knowledge has been honed through collaborations with voice teachers, including co-leading group classes with Ruth Williams on "Hennessey Breath and Bodywork" and with Shannon Boyce on "A Supple Voice." These experiences have solidified her ability to translate Alexander Technique principles into practical tools for improving vocal production and resonance.

Beyond her Alexander Technique certification (AMSAT), Karen also integrates principles of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) from the Upledger Institute into her teaching. This approach allows her to address subtle body rhythms and facilitate deeper release, enhancing dynamic balance, flow, and presence – essential qualities for performers.

Karen's background also includes training in Shiatsu (with Robbee Fian, LAC) and Pilates (Kane School of Pilates and Balanced Body), providing her with a comprehensive understanding of movement and body mechanics. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Clark University.

Kari Ostensen

AT Lie Down: Daily Mind-Body Reset
Fundamentals in Flow, Balance & Stability
Trans Embodiment Through the Alexander Technique

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.

Their performance pieces have more recently looked at disability grief. Kari’s work also explores identity, queerness, transness, and the perception of the self and the body and its boundaries.

They have performed their own work and works in collaboration with Elena Demyaneko, Anya Clarke of Michiyaya Dance, LILLETH and more at Bennington College, Balance Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, Salvatore Larussa Dance Theater, and West Beth.

Kerry Ryer Parke

PANELIST: Voice & Alexander Technique - What Happened?
Sound Flow

Kerry Ryer-Parke is a performer of many musical styles, from oratorio, opera, early music and new work to folk, jazz and rock. Trained in classical performance, Kerry also is certified in LoVetri SomaticVoicework and the McClosky method for non-classical styles. She has been the Director of the Bennington Children's Chorus since 1994 and the Bennington Voice Workshop since 2002. She joined the Music Faculty at Bennington College in 2013 and was an Artist Associate in Voice at Williams College from 2000-2022. As soprano soloist she has appeared with many orchestras and choirs in the Vermont/New York/Massachusetts area. She is the lead singer and bass player of the rock band The Prescription. Kerry’s interest in music and peacebuilding has led to training with Musicians Without Borders and the School for International Training, and travels to Sardinia, Corsica, Bosnia, Greece and Cyprus. She is a 2024 graduate of Balance Arts Center in New York City 1600 hour training and is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

Kyra Miller

Expressive Performance

Kyra Miller is an actress, writer, and singer. Her work in the theater has included musicals, opera, experimental puppeteering, devised theater, movement pieces, classical theater, and storytelling. Kyra’s performing career has spanned regional theaters all over the country and in NYC. Her current project, a film with puppets she devised and developed at the Object Movement Festival, is a grantee of the Vermont Arts Council and the Puppeteers of America. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she currently lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Kyra was certified to teach the Alexander Technique at BAC in 2016, and has an MFA from the University of Washington (PATP 2003). A former dancer, Kyra has spent much of her teaching life integrating somatic practice with acting. Previously, she taught acting in the theater departments of Tulane University, Montclair State and the University of Washington, and was on the Alexander faculty at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in NYC. She currently holds twin positions at the University of Vermont in the School of Music (voice faculty) and in the Department of Theater and Dance (acting faculty).

Lindy Rogers

Fundamentals in Flow, Balance & Stability
PANEL: Performing Arts and the Alexander Technique
Spatial Thinking from Memorization to Performance

Lindy Rogers teaches the Alexander Technique in New York City; a graduate of the Balance Arts Center since September 2019. Currently on Faculty with the BAC Teacher Training Program. Her passion is offering Balance & Stability classes that include a One Pound Weight class and a Fall Prevention class; both classes explore the power of being able to get down to and up from the floor with confidence. Lindy also teaches privately and works locally as an Actor and Director.

Lydia Chrisman

Einführung in die Alexander Technik

Lydia Chrisman is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher based in New York City. Lydia graduated from the Balance Arts Center, where she is now a teaching assistant in the training program. Lydia teaches music, dance and German at German-American School Manhattan, directs a Children’s Chorus at Third Street Music School and is a teacher-trainer for public school PreK teachers, coaching them in bringing more music and movement to their classrooms. Lydia grew up in Switzerland and speaks English, German, Swiss-German, French and beginner Hebrew.

Matt Cahill

PANEL: Voice & Alexander Technique - What Happened?
“Sing out Louise!” - How to Sing Higher and Louder with the Alexander Technique

Matt Cahill (he/they) is the co-founder and director of Hogfish, a regenerative arts production company and residency in Maine. along with his husband Edwin. Together, and through Hogfish, they are creating the regenerative arts - new secular rituals for the modern human that restore our relationship to the living world. Mind to Body. Performer to Audience. Individual to Community. Human to Nature. www.hogfish.org

Matt directs the artist residency at Hogfish, and is a Juilliard trained performer and teacher of performers at the Metropolitan Opera, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and privately in Maine and New York City. He specializes in mind-body awareness for singer-actors, and is an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and Reiki Level II Healer.

Mike Maher

Alexander Technique for Brass Players
AT Lie Down: Daily Mind-Body Reset

Mike "Maz" Maher is a professional trumpeter, singer, and songwriter with 20 years of performance and touring experience, and a founding member of the multi-Grammy award winning band Snarky Puppy. He is also a graduate of the teacher training program at the Balance Arts Center and an AmSat certified teacher of Alexander Technique. He has taught at high schools and colleges around the world on the subjects of improvisation, ensemble playing, trumpet playing, songwriting, and Alexander Technique.

Miles Bukiet

Alexander Technique and its Connection to Greater Emotional Ease

Miles Bukiet is a meditation teacher and therapist who integrates Buddhist practice, positive psychology, and contemplative science into his work. He has spent extensive time training in Buddhist monasteries and completed two years of solitary retreat under the guidance of B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., and Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D. Miles holds a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSW from Columbia University. He is also trained in MDMA- and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He helped create a meditation app, (Madrona Meditation), that combines classical meditation techniques and co-founded a Buddhist non-profit (Dharma Gates), that brings meditation training to young people. He's also an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher who trained with Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center.

Pyeng Threadgill

PANELIST: Voice & Alexander Technique - What Happened?

Pyeng Threadgill (she/her) is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist as well as a voice and movement teacher. As a vocalist/performer she creates what she calls New Porch Music, an approach based on the traditions of Black American Folk, Soul, Jazz and improvisational music. She uses these traditions to create connected conversations whereby audiences may reflect on their own life stories and identities for healing and empowerment. 

As a teacher Ms Threadgill has been certified in the Alexander Technique through AmSAT (the American Society for Teachers of The Alexander Technique). She completed her training with Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center in New York City and served on its faculty. Pyeng has studied Qi Gong with Daria Fain and is a certified teacher in the 8 Pieces of Brocade through the WuTang Physical Culture Association. And in 2008, Pyeng became a certified teacher in Somatic Voicework, the LoVetri Method.

Pyeng has taught a variety of voice and movement workshops at a wide range of communities, schools and organizations. She currently teaches private voice and performance skills classes at the Clive Davis Institute at NYU and at her private studio.

In 2023 Pyeng released her first memoir Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose about the visceral, spiritual, and political experiences of the voice. And in the winter of 2025 Ms Threadgill released the audiobook version of Lost & Found with new music now available on Lantern Audio. 

To learn more about Pyeng’s performance and recording life, please visit here.

Sarah White Ayón

AT Lie Down: Daily Mind-Body Reset
Settling Inward to Move Outward

Sarah White-Ayón (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, poet, visual artist, movement, and somatics teacher with a lifelong interest in both Western and non-Western healing practices. For the last 16 years, she has taught classes in movement, somatic awareness, mindfulness, embodied presence, and the Alexander Technique at various schools throughout NYC including Movement Research, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Balance Arts Center, Parsons School of Design, Playwrights Horizons at NYU, and The Juilliard School. She is both an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher (Balance Arts Center graduate, 2007) and a Registered Craniosacral Therapist RCST® through BCTA/NA.

Takehiro Shimizu 清水勇博

AT Intro in Japanese
Balance and Poise for Drummers

Takehiro is an Alexander Technique Teacher and teaches private lessons and group classes in NYC and Osaka (Japan). He has been involved as a teaching assistant in Balance Arts Center teacher training course since 2022.

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.

アレクサンダーテクニック教師 (AmSAT）
2020年にAmSAT(米国アレクサンダーテクニーク教師協会)の認定を受け、アレクサンダーテクニークを日本とNYで教え始める。
2022年よりBalance Arts Centerで教師育成クラスにアシスタントとして関わる。
教師業の傍らジャズドラマーとしての活動も行なっている。

Taylor Belew

Managing Performance Anxiety

Taylor is an Alexander Technique-certified theatre artist and performance coach with a passion for human potential. In addition to working as a professional actor and director, Taylor has over eight years of experience teaching theatre and public speaking in higher education. She leads extensive training in various actor training methods, such as the Meisner Technique and the methods of Jerzy Grotowski. Taylor has led workshops across the country on managing performance anxiety, cultivating emotional intelligence, improving deep listening, developing boundaries, and amplifying group creativity. She also serves as a public speaking and presentation coach for business executives in high-pressure performance environments and competitions. Her competitive gymnastics background and experience as a gymnastics coach invigorates her understanding of the human body. Originally drawn to Alexander work to assist in sports and performance situations, she discovered that the Alexander Technique addresses and improves how a person does anything. This qualifies Taylor to work on a variety of activities: from high-impact performance situations to issues of everyday life. Taylor holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Mississippi, an MFA in Acting from the University of Georgia, and a Post-MFA in Applied Performance from Virginia Tech.

Tom Baird

A French Baroque Dance Sampler
bAlleT: Blending Classical Ballet with the Alexander Technique

Baroque Dance specialist, Thomas Baird has choreographed Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac, (2005-06 & 2015) for the Metropolitan Opera, choreographed and performed with the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts for ten years and has been a period movement consultant for several Broadway productions. Along with Paige Whitley-Bauguess, his dance partner of twenty-five years, he has performed with leading early music groups all over the world. With his husband Hugh Murphy, he co- directed the East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University from 1998-2008. Most recently he led the New France Dance Project in Montréal, Québec, an in-person Baroque Dance Intensive. Some of Mr. Baird’s writings on historical dance have been published by Oxford University Press. He currently teaches ten Baroque Dance and Ballet-based classes online weekly.

Thomas Baird is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, having graduated in 2009 from the Balance Arts Center, Ann Rodiger director. He has presented workshops at many AT conferences such as the Freedom to Move, Freedom to Play and Sing, and Freedom to Write, and at Franklyn & Marshall College, Ohio Northern University, The Westerhoff School of Music, University of Richmond, and in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2010, he has taught the Alexander Technique in the Dance and Music Conservatories at SUNY Purchase College, and he assisted AT teacher Jane Kosminsky in the Dance Division at The Juilliard School for 14 years. He is a long-time faculty member of the BAC’s Alexander Teacher Training program, and has private practices in NYC and Norwalk, CT. From 2014-2019, he taught the AT at Si Parla, Si Canta, an opera intensive held in Urbania and Arona, Italy.

Tracy Einstein

Alexander Technique for Theatrical Clowns and Other Silly People

Tracy Einstein is a 1600-hour certified Alexander Technique teacher (Balance Arts Center), Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and lifelong performing artist dedicated to helping you feel better in your body so you can do what you love. Since 2018, Tracy has been Associate Faculty of Movement and the Alexander Technique at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. She also teaches folx of all ages at institutions such as UMass Amherst, Fairfield University, and Barnard College blending a trauma-informed approach with a focus on community, creativity, and craft.

In addition to her teaching, Tracy maintains a private practice as a Somatic Practitioner in Northampton, MA, and online. Her work empowers individuals to cultivate greater self-awareness, empowerment, and embodied resilience—both in their art and in their lives. Learn more at www.tracyeinstein.com