Movement | Teaching

Teaching Statement

Dance is often associated with balance – the delicate teetering to preserve heroic shapes; virtuosic poses held to calmly defy physics. For me, dance also exists in the balancing of seeming dialectics, walking the lines between generous teacher and dedicatedstudent, intellectual scholar and embodied practitioner, creative artist and curious scientist.  

More than anything, I want burgeoning artists to dance longer and stronger, allowing internal awareness to manifest in outer expressivity. Here the binaries continue to emerge and merge: classical training meets contemporary sensibility, easeful release facilitates meticulous detail.  Scientific evidence is met with longstanding traditions. Aesthetic virtuosity tempers functional efficiency.  Articulate bodies are matched with eloquent minds.