Notes on teaching

My teaching style is interdisciplinary in scope, embodied in approach, and improvisational in pedagogy.

I teach dance and I delight in sharing creative practices such as:

scoring & composing dances 

decomposing dance & choreographing breath

playing, creating and making dance outside, en plein air 

building collective living experiments 

dancing & challenging contact improvisation

engaging in real and imaginary ritual and ceremony

wandering, flaneuring and getting lost 

writing & poetry 

vocalizing & singing

embodied utterance 

storytelling

attunement

In my teaching, I am committed to centering Blackness through a critical-radical-justice framework that I call Improvising While Black or IWB. I approach this work from an embodied and compassionate place.  

I am on the faculty of Movement Research New York City and have taught in the following places:  UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Davis, California State University San Marcos, Cornish College of the Arts, Prescott College, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, Smith College, Bennington College, Trinity College La Mama Program, Velocity Dance Center Seattle, and many more (see CV). 

I also give lectures, informal talks, and participate in symposiums, residencies and panels as a solo artist and in collaboration with other artists in places such as the Museum of Modern Art NYC, The New Museum NYC, Tanzhaus Dusseldorf, Muzeum Susch Switzerland, wpZimmer Belgium, Ponderosa Dance Germany, The Center for the Less Good Idea South Africa and many other locations.