Heidi Gucinski Menocal
is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
(cm). She was certified by the Feldenkrais® Guild of North America in March 2001.
She continues to take advanced training to increase
her knowledge of the Feldenkrais Method® .
Her ballet training began in the Cecchetti
method at a young age. She studied in New
York City at the School of American Ballet,
and The Joffrey Ballet School. She has performed
with several companies in both Maryland and
New York. After joining Ballet Theatre of
Annapolis (now Ballet Theatre of Maryland
or BTM) in 1983, she began studying the Russian
Method of teaching ballet. She attended several
workshops, in the Russian Method, most notably
with Jurgen Schneider. She began teaching
for BTM in 1984, mostly at the advanced (pre-professional)
level.
In 1992 Heidi became the rehearsal assistant for BTM.
Heidi became interested in teaching
the Feldenkrais Method® after taking many classes and realizing how
much her dancing was improving. Her dancing
was not only technically improving but also
artistically growing. After a stroke in 1996,
the Feldenkrais Method® helped her recovery. The method helped both
her balance and ataxia caused by the stroke.
Heidi is a graduate of Towson State University
in Towson, Maryland with a degree in applied
Mathematics. Heidi is currently teaching
ballet and Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® lessons for the seventh year at County Dance Conservatory.
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