Classical Voice Faculty: Cynthia Reynolds

Cynthia Reynolds

Alexander Technique Teacher, Dancer

Adjunct Instructor

Cynthia Reynolds is an Alexander teacher who integrates her performance experience as a dancer with the Alexander Technique. She performed as a soloist with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company for 18 years, in New York, throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East. Her dancing has been labeled "poetic" by Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times, "warm and expansive" by Deborah Jowitt of The Village Voice. Of a performance at the Kennedy Center, Alan Kreigsman of The Washington Post writes: "Reynolds' interpretation [of Meriam Rosen's Afterthoughts]—one of the finest solo performances within my memory—was a model of nuanced plasticity and emotional shading." Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times wrote about the 2000 performance of Susan Cherniak's Engravings in Space, "she (Reynolds) was a revelation.......Ms. Reynolds showed how vivid and focused Hawkins' style can look, moving with a quietly sumptuous blend of lyricism, fine detail and modulated phrasing. It was a great pleasure to see her again."

For the last 8 years Ms. Reynolds has been teaching the Alexander Technique on the faculty of the Actors Studio Drama School MFA program at the New School University. Ms. Reynolds is also on the faculty of the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT)—the oldest and largest Alexander Teacher Training program in the USA—training Alexander teachers. She graduated from ACAT in 1987. She also earned a post-graduate Certificate from Rivka Cohen in 2000, an internationally recognized master AT teacher, with whom she has been studying since 1987. Ms. Reynolds maintains a private practice in Manhattan, where she teaches the Alexander Technique to singers, dancers, actors and the general public. In the summer she teaches on the island of Tinos, Greece, and has taught workshops in Athens, London, Vienna, Copenhagen, Prague, Seoul, and at colleges and universities across the United States, including several American College Dance Festivals. She has been on the faculties of the University of Maryland and Hunter College, the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University BFA program, and at New York University in the Program of Dance Education from 1988-2002. Her teaching was the subject of a feature article in Dance Teacher Magazine September 2001 issue. Her teaching is also featured in Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique, a video documenting the technique of Erick Hawkins, created by Renata Celichowska in 2000. She has a B.S. degree from SUNY Brockport.

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