Teaching Artist
“Working with Tracy is always a pleasure, for both colleagues and those she is teaching. Her kind and confident approach to creative work offers the best possible opportunities for artists, learners and fellow teachers to succeed. A rare facilitator that is well admired by peers and students alike.”
Tracy (she/her/hers) has over a decade of experience bringing play, movement, somatics & drama to classrooms, dance studios, cabins, zoom screens, and other ridiculous spaces. Her goal as a teacher to foster embodied resilience through community, creativity, and craft. She believes the arts are a unique place for people to discover creative agency, in the studio and in their lives.
Her NYC teaching artists credentials include the Public Theater, Hunts Point Children’s Shakespeare Ensemble, Redbull Theater Company, LeAp NYC, Arts Ignite, Completely Ridiculous Conservatory, and more. She’s been an Alexander Technique Teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Balance Arts Center, and Completely Ridiculous Conservatory. Pedagogical training includes Lincoln Center Education (Teaching Artistry), Christopher Bayes (Theatrical Clowning), and the Balance Arts Center (Alexander Technique). She’s currently furthering her training with Somatic Experiencing®, and learning from her amazing 2.5 yr-old. For more info and videos, keep scrolling!
The most meaningful feedback from an 8th-grader who participated in a theatre integration residency at Bronx Lighthouse Charter School.
Upcoming
Tracy teaches the Alexander Technique, Movement, and Physical Theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in NYC. (2017-present)
Courses, Winter 2024:
3 sections of Alexander Technique 2 (Application to Performance)
UMass Amherst Dance Dpt.
Course, Winter 2024:
DANCE 292D Seminar- Embodied Resilience, with Tracy Einstein
Feel empowered in your body to do what you love! Each session we will investigate the roots of movement through somatics, theater games, and even functional anatomy (muscular-skeletal and nervous system). You'll leave with practical tools for coming home to your body that support a sustainable artistic career. Tracy will share what she’s learned from over a decade of being a professional dancer, theater-maker and trauma-informed Alexander Technique teacher.
Select Past Experience
The Public Shakespeare Initiative- Hunts Point Children's Shakepseare Ensemble
2016-2018, Tracy was Movement Director for the Hunts Point Children's Shakespeare Ensemble (HPCSE).
Website, Public Shakespeare Initiative
Website, Hunts Point Alliance for Children
Video, Shakespeare Ensemble on New Learning Times
Video, student sharing and Tracy in action with a work-in-progress (contact for password)
Video, As you Like It & Video, Romeo and Juliet
Play Incubation Collective
Tracy and her partner Richie Barshay were responsible for curriculum setting and general theater workshop delivery for 2 weeks of theater workshops with a focus on play and self-discovery through mask making and physical theatre. Learn more!
Little Feet, with Little Roots Family music in Florence, MA!
In this movement-centered class, children, ages 2-5, and their caregivers, will be lead in songs, rhymes, and stretches that incorporate and engage developmental movement patterns as well as games and stories to get people of all ages moving and creating together.
Starts 9/22/2023
Shakespeare in Schools
With Redbull Theater Co & The Shakespeare Society. Co-designed & co- teaches a 10 class residency to draw 9th graders into the world of Romeo and Juliet through movement, speech, and performance (25 students/class)
LeAP, NYC
2015-2017, Tracy worked in numerous in-school, after-school, and summer school programs for LeAp, integrating the arts into academic curriculum.
“A teaching artist is a practicing professional artist with the complementary skills, curiosities, and habits of mind of an educator, who can effectively engage a wide range of people in learning experiences in, through, and about the arts.”
A class portrait by one of my 2nd graders. That's me, in the middle. Circle time is the best time.
Nu Words is Tracy Einstein and Richie Barshay, two New York and Western Massachusetts -based music and theater artists with a passion for Arts education. Their engaging performances of storytelling, poetry, drumming and movement dazzle audiences and young people.
The Hunts Point Children's Shakespeare Ensemble is a year-long comprehension, rehearsal, and performance program offered by the Public Shakespeare Initiative in collaboration with the Hunts Point Alliance for Children. Tracy Choreographed in collaboration with N’Dack Fleming and the entire Creative Team and Movement Directed this show. For video of the full show, visit https://vimeo.com/296663048
Tracy has facilitated for…
