About Me
I am a Dance Advocate, Choreographer, Teacher, and Performer. I have diverse experiences dancing with and teaching for multiple levels, ages, and in world wide settings. I am originally from Utah, USA where I received my BFA in Dance, and Secondary Education degree. I have a passion for traveling and experiencing the diversity of the contemporary dance world. I have expanded my dance practices within the USA 🇺🇸 , United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and Australia 🇦🇺.
My training is rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals, with a strong focus on traditional modern and ballet technique. I have engaged with cutting edge dance artists such as Gary Clarke (UK), Maxine Doyle (UK), Crystal Pite (CA), William Forsythe (GER), and Andrew Morrish (AU). I am most passionate about developing my own choreographic material and have choreographed works within university dance department, professional companies, independent dance collectives, high schools, festivals, and private studios. Screen dance and non conventional site specific works are of interest within my research and choreographic projects. Improvisation as a tool of creation and movement research is an important part of my practice and teaching style.
TEACHING is an important part of my dance practice. I love teaching young children and youth. They are discovering their creative bodies and finding those life long movement connections within themselves, each other, and their world.
I love teaching beginners and advanced dancers in intense training as well as educational settings. Within these classes, we can delve into more complex sequences, experiment with wider improvisational and compositionally parameters, both physically and academically. It is a time to use kinaesthetic and somatic language, within a learning environment.
My other love for teaching is within the aged community. I am fully trained within the Dance for Parkinson’s teaching model and teach within the community. The positive effects towards physical and mental well-being that these classes can bring are the reasons why we dance in the first place!
Throughout the last 15 years of teaching I have taught and choreographed with the organizations listed below.
