Experienced internat'l Ballet Master teaches/coaches professionals, pre-professionals, those who love to dance. All ages: Ballet, Kniaseff Barre-a-Terre (Floor Barre), Contemporary, move't therapy

I am a former dancer and actual ballet master currently employed at The Juilliard School's Dance Division and for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Marjorie Liebert is a friend and colleague of 40 years. She was avery gifted dancer and performer whose talents, hard work, and love helper her attain great artistic and personal heights. She was always a very rigorous professional, paying attention to details, flexible both in body and spirit and always ready to help her friends and colleagues.
Her change of career from dancer to teacher has been a great asset to the dance community...especially to her students. The rigor, discipline, and love for the art of teaching have brought forth wonderful results to
her many students over the years. Her students are now gracing the ranks of major dance companies throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
Marjorie Liebert is a very loving and caring human being. She extends herself beyond the call of duty for her students whether they be highly talented or not. She is one of those gifted pedagogues who is able to transmit the love and beauty of the Art of Dance. She is greatly loved and respected by her students, by her friends, and by the great professionals of the dance community throughout the globe.

I consider Marjorie Liebert a “Master of Movement”, and the value of having her for a Teacher, Coach and Mentor is beyond letters of recommendation.
I first was introduced to Marjorie 15 years ago, at the age of 17, while I was in New York for a summer workshop. I began training with her in addition to the workshop I was attending. I did not gain nearly as much from the workshop at the prestigious school as I did from the training and knowledge Marjorie was providing, so I ran to ta her every chance I had to take private lessons with her. In those 2 months, everything about my dancing improved and I effortlessly achieved quadruple pirouettes consistently.
Five years later, when I moved to New York and started dancing with a company, I knew that I wanted to seek her out for training; but as New York life happens, I was so busy and distracted that I didn’t take the time to look her up until, unfortunately, I sprained my ankle so badly (hearing things in the ankle pop as I rolled over it) that I could not even walk without pain and compensation. With no distractions or excuses, I sought Marjorie out again and began training with her 4 days per week. She gave me so much time and attention, making sure that I fully understood the alignment that would allow the injury to heal and strengthening it without aggravation. After about 5 months, I was just able to start jumping again and an audition came up for a show that I really wanted to attend. I was quite nervous because I had not tested out what I was capable of doing at this point or tried pushing myself the way it’s necessary when performing or auditioning. Let me just say that not only was I was blown away by the new power, strength, and control I had, but the choreographer personally took me aside to tell me what an amazing dancer I was. (Thank you Marjorie.)
Over the years I have trained in many styles of movement, from Break dancing and acrobatic work to Ballet and Pilates. I put Marjorie at the top of my list of reasons why as a performer at age 32, I am able to accomplish any kind of movement I desire and as a Pilates instructor, I am well sought after by clients because of my understanding of alignment and anatomical movement which I attribute to the years training with Marjorie and her talent for teaching me to understand my own body because it is only through understanding ours’ that we can understand someone else’.
If you are fortunate enough to have Marjorie as an influence, you are very lucky and I cannot say enough words of commendation, admiration, and appreciation of her.

As a professional ballerina with American Ballet Theatre for thirteen years, I have had my share of injuries. At one of the most critical times in my career, dealing with several stress fractures, I found Marjorie Liebert. I’ve never experienced someone so in tune with her body and the ability to verbally articulate her Barre-a-Terre and the dance techniques she teaches, from the most advanced of dancers to the average person learning to dance or dealing with disabilities.
I started taking private floor barre classes (Boris Kniaseff’s Barre-a-Terre technique), before and after surgery for three dreaded black line fractures. Marjorie has become a savior for me, keeping my mind, spirit, and body positive and healthy while healing. She kept me focused on the things I could control. Marjorie has an innate ability to nurture and translate what every dancer should experience. She gives you a very natural frame and structure to the ballet technique through the floor barre, which she has finessed into her own style.
This saved my mental well-being and made me reassess my technique to hopefully prevent future injuries by working the best way I can with my flexible body. I will forever be grateful for the knowledge she has given me of my body.

I have been a student of Marjorie Liebert’s for many years. I was introduced to her when she was teaching my daughter, Olivia, at the Ballet School of Stamford. She was very instrumental in bringing out the best in my daughter, giving her confidence, improving her line and expression.
I have also observed her other students’ rapid improvement from awkward to graceful and confident in a short space of time. I do believe that you can take many classes with some teachers and barely improve; with a great teacher, like Ms. Liebert, a few classes can send a dancer in the right direction and brings out unique talent.
Ms. Liebert can recognize a dancer’s potential and develop it with compassion and knowledge. Her knowledge of classical technique is wonderful. She connects a dancer with the joy of dance, while encouraging dramatic expressiveness, and emphasizing musicality.
I have studied with many ballet teachers and Ms. Liebert is my standout favorite. I am an adult student and now dance for exercise and joy. Ms. Liebert’s knowledge of alignment and her floor barre exercises have helped my body regain a flexibility and youthfulness that have allowed me to dance more complicated combinations despite my age. In her class, I forgot myself and returned to the dancer of my youth.
Ms. Liebert is also a wonderful choreographer and always makes her class interesting and inventive, while strengthening the dancer’s technique.
She fully understands that the art of dance is a performance art and needs the soul of the dancer to be fully alive on stage. Her many talents are a gift to her students and ultimately a gift to the world of dance. An additional benefit for the students of Ms. Liebert is her knowledge of how to prevent injuries. She is very careful to help dancers avoid hurting themselves.
Dancers who take this exceptional teacher’s class will experience the joy of dancing, the delight of finding the beauty within themselves.