Laura Rae Bernasconi

 Laura has worked nationally and internationally for the past 36 years as a dancer, choreographer and coach, as well as a ballet, yoga, AcroYoga and wellness teacher. Laura is on faculty at Peridance Center and Alonzo King Lines Ballet, has taught for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico, Gibney Dance, Gallim Dance, Netherlands Dance Theater, Norwegian National Ballet, Studio Wayne McGregor, Scapino Ballet, Carte Blanche Norwegian Contemporary, PRODA, Henny Jurriens Foundation, Gallim Dance, Bern Ballet, Ballet Basel, ODC/San Francisco, Australian Dance Theater, National Dance Company Wales, Danish Dance Theater, Basel Ballet, Tanzhaus NRW, CODARTS, The Joffrey School, San Francisco School of the Arts, Ballet Academy Stockholm and yoga with MixPose- Online classes for home yoga. 

Laura has danced internationally for Bern Ballet, Ballet Mainz, Labayen Dance/SF and has studied and performed Odissi Classical Indian dance as well as her own fusion of eastern dance and contemporary ballet and AcroYoga with her performance healing organization Ballet Bernasconi, Mudita Arts for Peace. 

Laura's ballet studies include the Cecchetti Council Of America, The San Francisco Ballet School, Cleveland Ballet School, The Joffrey Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Enrico Labayen. Her other studies include certification through The Shi’atsu Institute, Sivananda Yoga, AcroYoga and has studied in depth Gyrotonic, Feldenkrais, The Alexander Technique, Martial Arts, sports psychology, floor barre, mindfulness and meditation.