Philosophy of teaching:
In the Program of Movement and Dance, we encourage students to validate conceptual understanding through their own experience. I call this embodying knowledge, to engage ideas with the tools of our own experience. This, I feel, is a crucial component of education-allowing concepts to truly enter us, giving each individual the opportunity to find a personal connection and resonance with intellectual material. When this happens, information is received and retained on a deeper level, and “academic” material can be taken beyond the classroom and applied to everyday life. This is the essence of much of the work in the classes: to use all the aspects of our study to attain a deeper understanding of ourselves, and to enrich our experience of living embodied lives.