Cori Olinghouse, MCAT, AmSAT
Cori Olinghouse is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher with a private practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She has worked with a wide range of clients including performing and visual artists, professionals, women during and after pregnancy, practitioners of yoga, pilates and martial arts with many physical conditions, including: lower back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, neck and shoulder pain, plantar fasciitis, knee and hip injuries, arthritis, and breathing and postural problems, among others. Cori brings over a decade of experience from her training, teaching and work in dance, improvisation, Feldenkrais, Laban Movement Analysis, and Bartenieff Fundamentals to her Alexander teaching.
Cori performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002 to 2006. During her time there, she performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater and worked with Trisha Brown on O Zlozony / O Composite for the Paris Opera Ballet. Since then, Cori has been working with Bill Irwin and creating her own choreography – presented by Danspace Project, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Bennington College, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, and the Movement Research Improvisation Festival. Cori has taught Alexander Technique classes to the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Movement Research, and A.O. Movement Collective, as well as movement classes at London Contemporary Dance School, Tseh Moscow Summer Dance School, New York University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Fordham University, Bennington College, Ohio State University, and Trisha Brown Studios, among others. Cori holds a BA in Dance, Writing, and Video from Bennington College and is currently teaching emergent learning with her partner, Kai Kleinbard.
“I was first introduced to the Alexander Technique as a child, suffering from an acute lower back injury from dancing. At 12 years old, I thought I would have to give up dance entirely. After physical therapy, and many other movement therapies, my condition wasn’t improving. Through Alexander lessons, I began to see where my habitual tensions blocked a sense of flow through my joints. Over time, I was able to move with more ease, freedom, and awareness – returning more pleasurably to dancing. This imaginatively rich system has helped me to grow personally and artistically. In teaching the Alexander Technique, I invite students to look at the practice as a potentially rich creative process of investigation and inquiry.”
