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Teaching EXPERIENCE

Contemporary, Jazz, Ballet, Musical Theatre, African-Based Movement, Improvisational Methods, Contemporary Partnering, & Composition.

2024

  • Institute of Contemporary Dance – Houston, TX
    FOCUS Intensive, Master Classes

  • Joffrey Ballet – New York, NY
    Spectrum Summer Intensive

2022

  • Paseo Academy – Kansas City, MO
    Master Class for Dance Students

  • Attack Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA
    Open Community Classes

  • Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA
    Sophomore Opera Students

  • Point Park University – Pittsburgh, PA
    Senior Modern Dance Majors

2021

  • Texas State University – Virtual
    Master Classes

2019

  • TU Dance – St. Paul, MN

  • The Dance Complex – Maple Grove, MN

  • Woodbury Dance Center – Woodbury, MN

  • Ballet Co.Laboratory – St. Paul, MN

  • Humphrey’s School of Musical Theatre – Houston, TX

  • Bak Middle School of the Arts – West Palm Beach, FL

  • SteppingStone Theatre – St. Paul, MN

2018

  • Lundstrum Performing Arts – Minneapolis, MN

  • Disney’s The Lion King Gazelle Tour – Houston, TX
    Company Class

2017

  • University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN
    Master Class / Audition (on behalf of Sidra Bell)

2016

  • Clear Springs High School – Clear Springs, TX

  • Beyond Movement Dance – Ottawa, Canada
    Intensive

2016 & 2013

  • Point Park University – Pittsburgh, PA
    Classes, Jazz Audition

2013

  • Pittsburgh CLO – Pittsburgh, PA

Locating Lucidity

Locating Lucidity is a creative method and embodied research approach I’ve developed over the past few years to support performance-based work that asks artists to engage with deeply personal or sensitive material. Initially incubated as an Art Omi resident and later piloted with the artists and community of Attack Theatre suppoted by a Heinz Endowment Creative Development Award, this methodology evolved into a set of “containers”—intentional spaces where performers can step beyond the limits of pre-choreographed movement and connect with their most authentic physical impulses.

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These sessions nurtured a deeper awareness of both physical and emotional vocabulary, enabling artists to articulate their individuality with greater clarity and nuance. Rather than simply generating movement, the process encourages us to peel back habitual patterns and assumptions to uncover the raw, honest potential of the body—while fully honoring the agency of each performer to engage at their own capacity, moment by moment.

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Within the context of ensemble or company work, these containers became a kind of communal laboratory. They offered a space to explore the intersections of our distinct embodied histories—how they resonate, clash, and ultimately contribute to the collective. Improvisation was not just a tool but a philosophy: a way to integrate personal experience into a shared creative process. Through this work, we honored our responsibility to the ensemble as a living, breathing organism—one whose strength lies in the richness and complexity of its members.

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