Currently on the staff of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Zena Rommett Dance
Institute, associated with the BFA Dance Program at Fordham University and on faculty
for the Joffrey/New School BFA program, Robert Atwood has extensive experience in the
training of dancers at all levels. He believes that satisfaction in dance training is
a product of hard work and is attained through positive feedback in a conducive
environment. He regularly teaches overseas as a guest including the ballet companies
of Leipzig, Kaiserslautern and Hagen, the Academy of the Hong Kong Ballet and has a
continuing relationship with the Iwanson Schule fur Zeitgenossischen Tanz in Munich.
His choreography has been commissioned by companies that include the Albany/Berkshire
Ballet and the Tallahassee Ballet. A lecturer and dance writer, he regularly contributes to
Attitude magazine and has been published in Ballet Review.
Robert Atwood has a B.A form Haverford College in Political Science and A MFA in
dance from Florida State University.
BALLET
Drawing on the Cecchetti, R.A.D. Vagonova and Bournonville syllabi, Robert
Atwood's class teaches you through developmental exercises and an understanding of process to
build correct alignment, mechanical fundamentals and musicality in classical ballet. His attention
to correct execution in a hard working environment, attracts aspiring and professional dancers to his
class to rebuild their techniques in the wake of injury or other disruptions.
FLOOR BARRE
The Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique (TM) incorporates innovative
dance movement with anatomical principles of alignment and kinetic usage in a pure
technique of solid placement. Years of training can be accelerated in a brief period of
study. With this unique and patented technique sequence, which works without the pull of
gravity, correct alignment and movement become part of the danceršs muscular memory.
The muscular structure is corrected, lengthened and strengthened. Working internally and
centered, tension is released developing maximum turn-out and extension.
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