Brooklyn College 
Belinda Mello
Adjunct Lecturer, Alexander Technique

Belinda Mello, certified teacher of the Alexander Technique since 1989, is a teaching member of Alexander Technique International, serving on the Ethics committee, as regional coordinator, as liaison to ISMETA, and is an associate member of ACAT. She studied with master teacher Marjorie Barstow, and her postgraduate studies have included the Carrington approach with John Nichols, as well as voice, speech and Shakespeare with Ted Dimon and Rob Macdonald. Her movement training includes Ideokinesis with Ellen Webb and Nancy Topf, Body/Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Contact Improvisation with Danny Lepkoff, Alan Wayne technique with Tamar Rogoff, Choreography with Simone Forti, Mask with Per Brahe, and Trapeze dance with Julie Ludwick. As an undergraduate she attended the Boston University School for the Arts and received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where she co-authored a published study on posture. She holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College and has directed performances produced by Peculiar Works Project, Prospect Theatre Company/Dark Nights and Spoke the Hub/Gowanus Wildlife.She has performed with Anne Bogart, Tony Kushner, Wendy Woodson, Eva Dean, Elise Long, Bread and Puppet, as well as at the Istanbul International Theater Festival and Theater Olympics. Belinda is a movement consultant on theater productions and works-in-development. She maintains an Alexander Technique private practice and directs her own movement studies program: Actors AT motion.




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