Alexander Technique Online & In Person Summer Intensives
Week 1: July 8th - 12th, 2024
Week 2: July 22nd - 26th, 2024
Embark on a summer of self-discovery!
Deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique through these weeklong intensives. Guided by internationally renowned faculty, you will get a big-picture understanding of how the AT process can help you grow in every aspect of your life and art form.
Discover how to optimize your full potential, refine your artistry, and bring your whole self to the present moment.
Summer Intensive Features:
Online & In Person Participation Options
Daily Masterclasses with Ann Rodiger
Optional Private Sessions with participating faculty
Scholarship Opportunities
Daily Schedule
Online & In Person Study
Online Daily Schedule Includes:
10:00am-11:30am EST Hybrid Alexander Technique Masterclass with Ann Rodiger
In Person Daily Schedule Includes:
10:00-11:30am EST Hybrid Alexander Technique Masterclass with Ann Rodiger
11:30am-1:00pm EST In Person Class with Ann Rodiger and teaching assistants. Includes personal attention and hands-on work
2:00-4:00pm EST In Person Class with Ann Rodiger and teaching assistants. Includes personal attention and hands-on work (*Weeks 1 & 2 only*)
Through these intensives, you will learn how to:
Improve your posture, breathing, balance, and coordination
Increase your focus and self-awareness
Build strategies for relief from chronic pain, tension and strain
Improve your vocal production
Increase your performance presence
Participation Options
Choose your track of participation & register below
Online Track*
Includes: Daily AT Masterclass
Tuition: $175 per week
*Only available Week 1
In Person Morning Track
Includes: Daily In Person Classes & AT Masterclass
Tuition: $300 per week
In Person Full Day Track
Includes: Two Daily In Person Classes & AT Masterclass
Tuition: $575 per week
Optional Private Lessons
To request an in person or online private session contact info@balanceartscenter.com
Summer Intensive Week 1*: July 8th - 12th, 2024
Summer Intensive Week 2: July 22nd - 26th, 2024
*Please note: Online Track is only available Week 1. Week 2 is an In Person Only Intensive.
Registration Deadlines:
Registration is due the Thursday before each intensive week.
Week 1: July 4th at 5pm ET
Week 2: July 18th at 5pm ET
Scholarship Opportunities
Applications due 6/17 by 5pm ET.
The BAC is offering 8 tuition assistance scholarships for the Summer Intensive. 4 scholarships are reserved for people of color.
Scholarship Details:
Application Deadline: Monday, 6/17 by 5pm EST.
In addition to filling out the application form above, please submit your resume or cv to info@balanceartscenter.com.
If you submit a scholarship application you do not also need to fill out a registration form.
Location:
Online classes take place on Zoom. In-Person classes take place at the Balance Arts Center in NYC.
CTLE Credits Available for NY State Teachers:
The Balance Arts Center is an approved provider of Continuing Teacher & Leader Education Credits for NY State Teachers. School teachers receive 15% off their tuition!
Tuition Payment:
Upon completing your registration form you will receive an invoice directly to your inbox. Tuition will be due 48 hours after receiving your invoice.
Cancellation Policy:
Students can cancel their registration up to the Monday prior to the week they’re signed up for. Refunds are available minus a $50 processing fee.
The BAC is a mask-friendly space. Masks are now optional in classes, workshops, and intensives.
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 - NYC
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 - NYC & Connecticut
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 - Philadelphia, PA & NYC
Alice MacDonald is a performing artist and Alexander Technique teacher living in Brooklyn, NY and Bath, ME. She is an AmSAT certified AT Teacher and graduate of the Balance Arts Center. Alice is currently on faculty teaching dance and Alexander Technique at Movement Research (NY), Balance Arts Center (NY). She maintains an Alexander Technique private practice in New York City, Southern Maine, and online. As a performer, Alice has collaborated with Aretha Aoki, Lily Gold, Anneke Hansen, koosilja/danceKUMIKO, Jennifer Monson, Molly Poerstel, Anna Sperber, Sarah White Ayon, and others. Over the past decade, she has worked in the NYC dance community as Movement Research at the Judson Church coordinator and administrator, a curator at Dixon Place, an organizing member of Brooklyn Studios for Dance, and as co-founder of FREE ADVICE, a mentorship platform for artists. For more information visit: alicemac.com
Alice MacDonald
Alexander Technique Teacher, Dancer - NYC & Maine
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 - NYC
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 - NYC & Japan
