Rachelle Palnick Tsachor
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Movement for Performers
Phone: (319) 621-1803
1006 VMB
rachelle-tsachor@uiowa.edu

Rachelle Palnick Tsachor

Rachelle Palnick Tsachor, CMA, RSMT teaches Movement for Performers, an interdisciplinary class for musicians, dancers and actors for the Division of the Performing Arts. She earned her B.F.A. in Dance at the Juilliard School and her Masters in Dance/Movement Research and Reconstruction at the City College of New York where she also completed her Reconstructor and Advanced Notator training. As a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA, University of Quebec at Montreal and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies), she has been invited to give workshops and presentations in such diverse areas as Optimal Performance, Non-Verbal Communication, Kinesiology, Movement notations, Physical Characterization and Early Dance & Movement at conferences in Berkeley, Chicago, Ottawa, New York City, San Antonio and Ghent, Belgium.

Tsachor taught Modern Dance and Movement for Actors at the City College of New York, Theatre Movement at the University of Iowa Theatre Department, Ballet at Grinnell College, and has been guest teacher at the Alvin Ailey School in New York City, Tel Hai Arts College in northern Israel and Tunghai University in Taiwan. Her publications in Labanotation include chapters in the Dover edition of Courtly Dance of the Renaissance, Gordon & Breach of London's Moving Notation and Terpsichore 1450-1900 published by the Institute for Historical Dance Practice in Belgium. Her reconstruction of Nido d'Amore was commissioned as the basis for the instructional video How to Dance through Time Volume III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance for Dancetime Publications in California. Tsachor's current project is serving as managing editor for the forthcoming Pendragon Press scholarly publication of Lorin's French manuscript on English country dance [c. 1685-1687].

A Registered Movement Therapist since 2000, Tsachor works in the Iowa City area as a movement therapist and educator. She is board certified by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork as well as a certified member of the Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals and ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Currently, a member of Alexander Technique International, she plans to complete a certification in Alexander Technique in the near future. Tsachor serves on the management committee of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and the Ethics Committee of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.

Back to Faculty and Staff Directory

Last updated 17-nov-05