Marcus Schulkind is a founding director of Green Street Studios and has been dancing, teaching, and performing for over fifty years. Originally trained in Graham Technique and Graham based variants (Norman Walker, May O’Donnell, Pearl Lang), he went on to study balet with Antony Tudor and Maggie Black at Julliard, bodywork with Zena Rommett (for whom he taught in New York), and Pilates Technique with Kathy Grant. He was performed nationally and internationally with many major modern dance companies including Lar Lubovitch, Kathy Posin and Batsheva Dance Company of Israel. He has taught in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East. Mr. Schulkind is a nationally recognized, dancer, teacher, and choreographer, having received grants from the N.E.A, N.Y.S.C.A., Affiliate Artists Inc., Bank Boston Celebrity Series, and First Night. He has choreographed for Dennis Wayne’s Company, Princeton Ballet, David Brown, Elisa Monte, 5 by 2 Plus, People Dancing, Pick of the Crop, Little Feet, Peanut Butter and Jelly Dance Company, and in Canada for Dance Partout and the National Ballet of Egypt. Since seriously injuring his knee twelve year ago, he has been integrating physical therapies and his five year training of Pilates into his floor barre, modern, and ballet technique classes. Marcus is also a practicing acupuncturist.