Summer Performing Arts Youth Program
Through the Alexander Technique Lens
July 21st-25th 2025
Create presence in your performance!
Join us for a summer program focusing on performing arts through an Alexander Technique lens. Many top performing arts colleges and training programs use The Alexander Technique as the foundation of their body awareness classes. In this intensive, you’ll be working with certified Alexander Technique faculty on applying the Technique to build presence & awareness, address performance anxiety, learn injury prevention tools, develop self-agency and more.
This program is for incoming high school freshmen through seniors and will involve one on one and group sessions with individual attention on you and your performing arts disciplines.
A showcase will be developed by the performers and teachers throughout the week for a presentation on Friday. Family and friends are invited to attend.
Daily Schedule
10:00am-1:00pm
AT Masterclass
Group Activities
Discussions with Embodied Performance Focus
Individual Attention
1:00pm-2:00pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm-4:00pm
Afternoon Breakout Sessions by Discipline
On Friday, July 25th there will be a performance from from 2-4pm with a reception to follow. Friends and family are welcome to attend!
Topics Covered Include:
Presence & Awareness
Performance Anxiety
How to receive and apply feedback
Injury prevention
Individual attention
Application Process
Application is due Friday, March 14th by 5pm EST.
Application Fee:
This application has an application fee of $20 which will be applied to your tuition if you are selected to participate. Upon completing your application form you will receive an invoice directly to your inbox. The application fee must be paid by the application deadline for your application to to be considered.
Intensive Tuition is $500
Scholarships available!
Application deadline is Friday, March 14th at 5pm EST.
Applicants will be notified about their application status by Friday, March 21st at 5pm EST.
Additional Details & Information
Locations
All classes take place in-person at the Balance Arts Center in NYC.
Age Group
This program is for incoming high school freshmen through seniors.
Hands On Work
AT Work often has hands-on guidance. We will get consent from the adult and child about their comfort level. This decision is flexible at any time in the workshop, and touch is not the only way to learn! Training also includes verbal direction, discussion, videos, observation and more.
Participating Faculty
Ann Rodiger is the Founder and Director of the Balance Arts Center in New York City. She has nearly 40 years of teaching the Alexander Technique. Her teaching draws from her knowledge from teaching the BAC Teacher Training Course and private lessons in the US and abroad as well as her knowledge of Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga, meditation and various dance techniques. She has developed the BAC 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 Syndromes. 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.
Ann Rodiger
Founder & Director of the Balance Arts Center
Alexander Technique Teacher, Movement & Vocal Specialist
Thomas Baird has choreographed for the Metropolitan Opera, performed with the New York Philharmonic and has been a movement consultant for several Broadway productions. He is a dancer and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, having graduated from the Balance Arts Center in NYC in 2009 under the direction of Ann Rodiger. 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, University of Richmond and in Tokyo, Japan. He teaches AT in the Dance Division at The Juilliard School and the Dance and Music Conservatories at SUNY Purchase College. He assists Ms. Rodiger in the BAC’s Teacher Training program, and has private practices in NYC and Norwalk, CT. In the summer, he teaches the AT to singers at Si Parla, Si Canta, an opera intensive held in the summer in Arona, Italy.
Tom Baird
Alexander Technique Teacher, Dancer
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.
Heather Gardner
Alexander Technique Teacher, Singer, Violinist/Violist
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.
Allie Kronick
Alexander Technique Teacher, Dancer
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.
Lindy Rogers
Alexander Technique Teacher, Actor
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.
Takehiro Shimizu
Alexander Technique Teacher, Drummer
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.
Kari Ostensen
Alexander Technique Teacher, Movement Specialist