Pedagogically, I am committed to the ways in which technical training and the analysis of dance can prepare my students for sustained opportunities in performance and choreographic practice. My primary objective as a teacher is for my students to connect critical conversations around dance and performance to real world stakes and experiences. In technical and compositional dance classes, this includes the aim that students are able to develop continuing practices of artistry, training, and investment in embodied forms of knowledge. By emphasizing the ability of the dancing body to both communicate and impact cultural phenomena, I teach my students to value the broad registers of cultural and social impact that dance and performance foster.

Having taught across dance practices, history, and theory, performance studies, theater studies, and gender and sexuality studies, I tailor my pedagogy to the various levels of experience and backgrounds which students bring to the classroom. In the fields of dance and performance, I focus on preparing my students for real world opportunities within and outside of performance contexts, training students for independent artistry, auditions within company structures, and utilizing their skills in embodied awareness and analysis across other fields. I am passionate about teaching creative composition and technique, generating performances in collaboration with students, and nurturing awareness around the administrative demands of making artistic work, including grant writing, crafting artist statements, and maintaining production budgets. I am trained to teach contemporary forms, Cunningham, release, Laban Bartenieff, hip hop, and improvisation techniques in addition to courses in choreography, dance history, and dance studies. I have worked with international choreographers who have facilitated training deriving from non-western contexts, including Ayako Kato (Chicago/Japan) and Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco) and these experiences have shaped my approach to the dance classroom. My research prepares me to teach across I have taught across various departments, including Dance, Performance Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, and I was the 2020 recipient of the Dwight Conquergood Award for Excellence in Pedagogy. Additionally, I have taught dance workshops and technique classes at national universities and arts institutions including Reed College, University of Nebraska, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Dance Center at Columbia College in Chicago.

Available Courses:

Contemporary Techniques 

Hip Hop 

Release Technique and Floor Work

Improvisation Practices

Approaches to Choreography and Composition

Sound Design for Choreographers

Laban Bartenieff Fundamentals  

Cunningham Technique

Transnational Flows of Dance Practices

Global Encounters, Appropriation, and Dance Canons

Contemporary Issues in Global Dance

Afrodiasporic Dance Histories

Dance and the Borderlands

Dance Appreciation (Beginner Course)

Introduction to Critical Dance Studies

Devised Theater

Performing Literature: Adaptation

Movement for Acting

* For teaching history, see CV (About section)