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Belinda Mello is a senior level Alexander Technique teacher and movement specialist in practice since 1989. She currently teaches at The Barrow Group, the Terry Knickerbocker Studio, and as a guest at other acting programs. These have included Harvard University, the SITI Conservatory. For fifteen years she was an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Brooklyn College/CUNY Theater Department where she taught the BFA Movement, Acting and Mask courses, directed (THE CATARACT, AL TAKES A BRIDE) and served as movement coach (CAMINO REAL, JUNE MOON, ROUGH MAGIC). She has been a teaching artist at the Tom Todoroff Conservatory, Ted Bardy Studio, Larry Singer Studio, Muhlenberg College, The Actor’s Movement Studio, the New Actor’s Workshop, NYU's Musical Theater Workshop and has worked on theater productions with The Women’s Project(CROOKED), Prospect Theater Company (DARK NIGHTS PROJECT). and others. She Belinda has performed in the USA and Europe, and was both a director and actor in the Peculiar Works Obie Award-winning production (OFF-STAGE FRAGMENTS) . She co-produced the annual FREEDOM TO ACT Conference in NYC and taught at the Alexander Residential Workshops in Spokane and Columbus. Belinda earned her BA at Hampshire College and is a graduate, cum laude and Joel Zwick scholarship awardee, of the MFA directing program at Brooklyn College/CUNY. She is a member of the Margolis Method professor certification group. In her early performance experience she was fortunate to work with Anne Bogart (HISTORY AN AMERICAN DREAM, SEHNSUCHT, SMALL TOWN BIG DREAMS, SPRING AWAKENING), Tony Kushner (LAST GASP AT THE CATARACT, BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY), Wendy Woodson (VISITING HOURS), the Eva Dean Dance Company, and twice as an artist in residence at The Yard in Martha's Vineyard. In 2006, she performed at the International Theater Festival in Istanbul (BEWARE OF DOG).Her movement experience is grounded in contact improvisation, ideokinesis, modern dance, yoga and Body-Mind Centering. She has been tutored in mask by Per Brahe and studied Rasaboxes with Paula Murray Cole. Her Alexander Technique training began at The Alexander Foundation in Philadelphia including study with the late Marjorie Barstow, first generation teacher. She continues to study with master teachers and completed a post-graduate training in the Carrington approach and Dart procedures. She is an active member of diversity, equity and inclusion committees in her profession. She has been published as a BACKSTAGE Expert and co-authored (2012): Cultivating a lively use of tension: the synergy between acting and the Alexander Technique, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 3:1, 27-40. She has presented workshops at two international AT Congresses, most recently in Berlin. Belinda draws on her background in movement and theater for her weekly classes for actors, and in her presentation coaching. She works individually with actors and dancers preparing roles on and off B'way (WOLF PLAY, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, AINT TOO PROUD, TORCHSONG, WINTERS TALE, HAMLET, AMERICAN BALLET THEATER) and film and television (including WESTSIDE STORY, STATE OF THE UNION, LAW & ORDER, TIME TRAVELERS WIFE) www.AlexTechMotion.com