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Rachelle Palnick Tsachor Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa School of Music, Movement for Performers http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/bios/MVMTtsachor.htm Rachelle Palnick Tsachor

Rachelle Palnick Tsachor, CMA, RSMT, is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. She teaches Movement for Performers, an interdisciplinary class for musicians, dancers and actors for the Division of the Performing Arts. Tsachor earned her B.F.A. in Dance at the Juilliard School and her Masters in Dance/Movement Research and Reconstruction at the City College of New York where she also completed her Reconstructor and Advanced Notator training. As a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA, University of Quebec at Montreal and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies), she has been invited to give workshops and presentations in such diverse areas as Optimal Performance, Non-Verbal Communication, Kinesiology, Movement notations, Physical Characterization and Early Dance & Movement at conferences in Berkeley, Chicago, Ottawa, New York City, San Antonio and Ghent, Belgium.

Tsachor taught Modern Dance and Movement for Actors at the City College of New York, Theatre Movement at The University of Iowa Theatre Department, Ballet at Grinnell College, and has been guest teacher at the Alvin Ailey School in New York City, Tel Hai Arts College in northern Israel and Tunghai University in Taiwan. Her publications in Labanotation include chapters in the Dover edition of Courtly Dance of the Renaissance, Gordon & Breach of London's Moving Notation and Terpsichore 1450-1900, published by the Institute for Historical Dance Practice in Belgium. Her reconstruction of Nido d'Amore was commissioned as the basis for the instructional video How to Dance through Time Volume III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance for Dancetime Publications in California. As associate editor, Tsachor recently published a scholarly facsimile edition of a French manuscript on English country dance, Dances for the Sun King: André Lorin’s Livre de Contredance, [c. 1685-1687] published by the Colonial Music Institute.

A Registered Somatic Movement Therapist since 2000, Tsachor works in the Iowa City area as a movement therapist and educator and has a studio practice in the Alexander Technique. She was board certified by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and is a certified member of the Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals, Alexander Technique International and ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association and is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.. Tsachor also serves on faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in NYC.