Robin Gilmore, MFA, ATI, is an internationally recognized dancer and somatic educator whose primary language is movement. In 2024 she joined the Dance Faculty at the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University. As the director of AT teacher training programs in Greensboro, NC and Kyoto, Japan and as guest faculty in other programs, Robin has mentored several generations of Alexander teachers. She was fortunate to study with Marjorie Barstow for a number of years and had a long professional partnership with Marsha Paludan, a founder of release technique.

 

Robin has been dancing her entire life. Improvisation, developmental movement and the natural world inform her teaching and her approach to living. She has published numerous articles, and her book What Every Dancer Needs to Know About the Body (GIA Press), is a required text in many university performing arts departments. Robin has a personal history with Claymont as a longtime participant in the East Coast Contact Improvisation Jam. 

 

Diana Bradley, ATI, AmSAT has been a certified Alexander Technique teacher since 1979. She has taught in the DC area for over 38 years, including at Arena Stage, Maryland Opera Studio, the University of Maryland and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Diana teaches around the U.S. and internationally. She studied with Marjorie Barstow for 13 years and taught with Marj in Australia and New Zealand. 

 

Diana was a longtime faculty member at the Barstow Institute summer workshop and Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies North Carolina teacher training program (CBAS). She has been on the faculty of the Studio Acting Conservatory since 2007. Her private practice is located in Takoma Park, MD. Diana has extensive dance training and holds a black belt in aikido.
 

Renée Jackson, Renée Jackson is an active pianist and teacher of music and Alexander Technique, and a Practitioner of Nervous System Energy Work (NSEW).  She completed her teacher training and certification with Alexander Technique International in 2001 and certified in NSEW in 2012.  She continues to explore both NSEW and AT and finds both to be rich, lifelong practices.  Renée founded and directed the Myrtle Beach Alexander Technique and Energy Workshop and was a faculty member at Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies (CBAS) with Robin Gilmore.  She is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Alexander Technique International Board.  A pianist and musician from an early age, Renée did her undergraduate training at Oberlin Conservatory and her masters of music degree at the University of Michigan. She has been very active with Music Teachers National Association in both the South Carolina and Ohio state and local chapters and was honored at the national convention as an MTNA Foundation Fellow in 2024. 

 

As a longtime advocate of healthy playing and movement, Renée continues working with pianists and others interested in better movement, ease, and pain relief.  After spending much of her career teaching piano and music theory both independently and at the collegiate level, Renée and her husband, composer Donald Sloan, recently relocated to Hendersonville, NC, where they are singing with Carolina Concert Choir, composing, playing instruments, reading, walking their dog, and exploring the mountains.  

 

Teresa Lee is a movement specialist and theatre artist-educator. She became an ATI certified teacher in 1995 after training in Philadelphia. Teresa teaches private lessons in person and online. She conducts Alexander Technique workshops and residencies for actors at professional theatres, universities and conferences in the U.S. In her teaching, Teresa invites the rediscovery of freedom to “play” through improvisation and enlivened presence in the moment. She served two terms on the board of Alexander Technique International and is a current Teaching Member and Sponsor. She has served many years on the faculty of Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies Teacher Training and the Alexander Technique at Sevenoaks summer course. Teresa’s chapter on Alexander Technique and actor training is included in Movement for Actors, second edition, Allworth Press. She is a Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, where she taught the Alexander Technique, Movement, Acting and Children’s Theatre. Teresa is a professional stage director, movement coach, stage combat choreographer, theatrical intimacy director/coach and actor.