Teaching Philosophy

My classes invite young dancers to step into a realm of ideas rarely explored in technique class but essential to their growth both in and outside the dance studio.

• I teach to empower dancers both as movers and thinkers capable of bridging our culture’s persistent hierarchical divide between art and scholarship, body and mind.
• I teach to help develop self-aware, empathic human beings who understand how bodies--both their kinesthetics and aesthetics--are read and politicized.
• I teach to confront privilege, inequality, and injustice within dance culture and the world at large.
• I teach to celebrate the power of embodied knowledge as it reflects and creates cultural values and identity.

In spanning the perceived distance between dance as physical art and intellectual pursuit, I hope to deepen the level of my students’ critical engagement with their training, challenge and broaden their ways of seeing, and provide them with the tools needed to become more informed, discerning consumers of media and culture at large.