Sarah Gamblin
2023-2024
Education
M.F.A. Dance, University of Washington
B.A. Dance, Ohio University
Employment
Academic Appointments:
Full Professor of Dance with tenure, Graduate Faculty, Texas Woman’s University.
Associate Professor of Dance with tenure, Graduate Faculty, Texas Woman’s University.
Assistant Professor of Dance (tenure track), Graduate Faculty, Texas Woman’s University.
Teaching Assistant, Dance Department. University of Washington.
TEACHING
Courses Taught Regularly at TWU since 2008
Graduate Teaching
Somatics
Ballet
Contemporary Dance
Doctoral Dissertations Committee Member
Workshop in Somatic Practice Culminating Projects I and II
Studies in Modern Dance
M.F.A. Independent Project mentor Spontaneous Choreography/Improvisation Professional Paper
Intermediate/Advanced Modern Technique Experiential Anatomy for Dancers Advanced Modern Technique
Concert Choreography
Contemporary Issues in Dance Intermediate/Advanced Ballet
Major Professor of M.F.A Culminating Projects
Other Scholarly Teaching, Mentoring and Curricular Achievements:
2021-22 The Quakertown Stories Project. Key faculty. Contributions and leadership toward multiple events carried out in the execution of the the NEH funded Public Humanities Grant, including co-facilitating and co-organizing the following events:
– QTS Faculty Fellows training (Summer 2021),
– Fall Speaker’s Series (Fall 2022)
– Quakertown Stories Town Hall at the Denton Senior Center (April 2022).
– “Quakertown Lecture Demonstration,” Faculty mentor for a student-led workshop involving reflective dancing and sharing, performed publicly in classes as well as in the Quakertown Stories Town Hall at the Denton Senior Center. This event was initiated in my DNCE 5232 course in Fall 2021.
2018 Arts Diplomacy Residency tour. Teaching and performing with Bebe Miller Company. Sponsored by DanceMotion/USA and the U.S. Department of State. Six cities in Columbia and Peru.
Creative Residency. The Making Room. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. Fringe Arts, Philadelphia.
2017 Creative Residency. The Making Room. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. Jacob’s Pillow, MA.
2017 Creative Residency. The Making Room. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
2017 Creative Residency. The Making Room. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. Smith College. Northampton, MA.
2016 Creative Residency. The Making Room. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
2014 Faculty sponsor, TWU Leman Awardee: Erin Bailey.
2014 Faculty Mentor for Whitney Coleman, “Expanding Creativity Through the Investigation
and Application of Four Choreographic Methods.” TWU the Creative Arts Research Symposium.
SCHOLARSHIP/CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Refereed Publications or Other Creative Achievements
In the professional and academic dance worlds, creative agency resides on both sides of the performer/choreographer duality. In the section, “Peer Reviewed Dance Performances” peer-reviewed performances in which I played a generative role either as a performer or choreographer or both are listed in chronological order. My role in each work’s generation is indicated in each item.
Peer Reviewed Presentations:
2016 Presentation and Performance: “What am I doing in this dance? A failed conversation about the multiple layers of performance.” Co-presented with Matthew Henley. Engagement: Symposium of Philosophy and Dance. Texas State University, San Marcos.
2013 Panel Coordinator: “When Distinctions Collapse: Questions for the Teaching and Coaching of Choreography, Improvisation and Performance in Academia.” World Dance Alliance - Americas Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada
Peer Reviewed Publications:
2009 “Building a Technique Class in a post-Contact Improvisation World.” Co-authored with
Jordan Fuchs. Contact Quarterly. Vol 34, #1. Winter/Spring, 2009.
Commissioned Dance Performances:
Completed:
2022 Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Happy Fun Safe Dance. Choreographer and Performer with Nadia Losonsky.
2019 Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. The Variable Constraint. Andrew Wass. Performer. University of North Texas.
2018 Middlebury College, In a Rhythm. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. Middlebury, VT. 2018 Columbia College Dance Center, In A Rhythm. Bebe Miller Company. Performer.
Chicago, IL.
2018 On the Boards. In A Rhythm. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. Seattle, WA.
2018 New York Live Arts. In A Rhythm. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. New York City. 2018 Dallas Dancefest. Secondary Surfaces Redux. Roma Flowers. Performer.
2018 Rio Webfest, Official Selection. Secondary Surfaces Redux. Roma Flowers. Performer.
Alternative Film Festival. Winter edition. Finalist. Secondary Surfaces Redux. Roma
Flowers. Performer.
2017 The Wexner Center for the Arts. In A Rhythm. Bebe Miller Company. Performer. The
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2016 ClancyWorks. Duet in Mercury, Light, Blood. Washington, D.C. Choreography. 2016 Out of the Loop Festival. Suite 111. Watertower Theater, Addison, TX.
2015 Dance Now Festival Twentieth Anniversary. Change Agents and Cell Division.
Performer and co-creator with Erin Reck and Amii Legendre. Joe’s Pub, New York City. 2015 Innovators in Performance. Summoned, Not Planned. Performer and co-creator. Seattle
Festival of Dance Improvisation.
2015 WanderLust; A Dance Concert produced by Flatlands Dance Theater. Acts of Absence.
Artistic director, choreographer, performer. Lubbock, TX.
2015 American College Dance Festival and Conference. On Dappled Things...Performer.
Choreography by Matt Henley. Lubbock, TX.
2014 Dance Fusion Festival. Collin College. On Dappled Things...Performer. Choreography
by Matt Henley. Plano, TX.
2014 Dance Gallery Festival. Sam Houston State University. Stupid Is a Bad Word. Performer.
Choreography by Colleen Thomas and Adriane Fang. Huntsville, TX.
2014 University of South Florida. Under (2011). Tampa, FL. Choreography.
2014 New Genre Festival. Acts of Absence. Artistic Director, Choreographer, Performer.
Tulsa Performing Arts Complex, Doenges Theater. Tulsa, OK.
2013 Dance+ Festival. In the Wide Deep Wake in All That is Passing...Choreographer and
Performer. Conduit Dance Center. Portland, OR.
2012 Bethany Nelson/ Meredith Lyons. Untitled. Philadelphia, PA. Choreographer.
2012, Cultivate Dance Festival Profusion. Choreographer and Performer. Colonial Theater.
Bethlehem, NH.
2012 Bebe Miller Company. Commissioned conversation with Darrell Jones. Contribution for
premier of A History (2013).
2012 Perpetual Motion Dance Company. Raw Material. Oklahoma City, OK.
2011 By A Committee of Style. Spaces: A Constellation. Choreographer and Performer.
Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex. Houston, TX
2011 The Houston Fringe Festival. Drift: With Trio. Choreographer and Performer
2011 Mam-Luft Company/ Dance. Under (2010) and Raft (2006). Cincinnati, OH.
2011 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. Artistic Director of concert including the following
works:
Green (Area premier)
Choreographer Colleen Thomas
Performers: Sarah Gamblin and Heidi Henderson
Drift (Area Premier)
Choreographer and Performer: Sarah Gamblin in collaboration with Shiny Around the Edges
Under (2010) Choreographed by Sarah Gamblin. Performed by Big Rig Dance Collective.
2011 Texas Christian University. Under (2010). Fort Worth, TX. Choreographer.
2010 The New Genre Festival. In But Not Here. Choreographer and Performer with Jordan
Fuchs. Tulsa, OK.
2009 The Foreman Festival at the Imago Theater. Untitled. Choreographer and Performer.
Portland, OR.
2009 The Flea Theater. In But Not Here. Choreographer and Performer with Jordan Fuchs.
New York City.
2008 Fusebox Festival, In But Not Here. Choreographed and Performed with Jordan Fuchs.
Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX.
2008 Out of the Loop Festival. Artistic Director. Watertower Theater. Addison, Texas
Bend/Pop (premiere)
Choreographed by Sarah Gamblin
Performed by Sung-Hun Lim Meghan Cardwell-Wilson and Sarah Gamblin In But Not Here
Choreographed and Performed by Sarah Gamblin and Jordan Fuchs
If It Were Not So Sweet
Choreographed by Sarah Gamblin
Performed by Out on a Limb Dance
2008 University of Montana. On Vast Plains: Some Questions (2008) Non-Commissioned Performances
2024 TWU Dancemakers Concert. the longing to avoid form. A dance for a cast of four. Margo Jones Performance Hall at TWU.
2023 TWU Dancemakers Fall Concert. Gather. Send. A dance for a cast of four. Margo Jones Performance Hall at TWU.
TWU Dance Faculty Program. Sarah Gamblin and Friends. Featuring performance collaboration featuring Dr. Rosemary Candelario and musicians Sarah Ruth, Ernesto Montiel, Miguel Gonzalez.
Dancemakers Spring Concert. The Space Between Us. A dance for a cast of eight. Margo Jones Performance Hall at TWU.
2019 In Formed Radio, KUZU. Dance for Radio. Podcast and performance collaboration with producer Rachel Weaver.
2019 Greater Denton Arts Center. Solo. Choreographer and Performer.
2018 Dance UpClose. Great Mystery, Big Thing. Choreographer for a cast of three TWU
students. Dance Studio Theater. TWU.
2016 Day of the Dance. Rising, Requiem, Sleep. Choreographer and Performer. Composer
Sarah Ruth Alexander. Black Box Theater, Denton, TX.
2016 Dancemakers. Duet in Mercury, Light, Blood. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater,
Texas Woman’s University. Denton, TX.
2016 Arts All Night. Duet in Mercury, Light, Blood. Choreographer. Patterson-Appleton Center
for the Arts. Greater Denton Arts Center. Denton, TX.
2015 Dancemakers. Sojourn and Breath. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater, Texas Woman’s
University. Denton, TX.
2015 Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Verge, Redux. Co-creator and performer Darrell
Jones. Margo Jones Performance Hall. Denton, TX.
2014 Texas Dance Improvisation Festival Summoned, Not Planned. Performer and Co-creator
with Amii LeGendre. Sam Houston State University. Huntsville, TX.
2014 Dancemakers. Study with Foam Rollers. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater, Texas
Woman’s University. Denton, TX.
2013 Dancemakers. Remembering. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater, Texas Woman’s
University. Denton, TX.
2012 Dancemakers. Chopin Suite. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater, Texas Woman’s
University. Denton, TX.
2011 Dancemakers. Da-Da-Dum. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater. Texas Woman’s
University. Denton, TX.
2011 Impulse. Music and Dance Durational Performance. Performer. University of North
Texas. Denton, TX.
2011 Lander’s Machine Shop with Hentai Improvising Orchestra. Music and Dance Durational
Performance. Performer. Fort Worth , TX.
2010 Cross-Pollination at Dan’s Silver Leaf. An evening of interdisciplinary dance, film and
music. Producer, choreographer, performer.
2010 Dancemakers. Under. Choreographer. Margo Jones Theater. Texas Woman’s University.
Denton, TX.
2008 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, In But Not Here. Choreographer and Performer
with Jordan Fuchs. Seattle, WA.
2008 Dancemakers, Too. On Vast Plains: Some Questions. Choreographer. Dance Studio
Theater. Texas Woman’s University. Denton, TX.
2008 Shift: A Choreographers Showcase. Bend/Pop. Choreographer and Performer.
Washington, D.C.
2008 Ultra Extra Arts Mix at the Greater Denton Arts Council. Choreographer and Performer.
Bend/Pop. Denton. TX. Attempted and Completed Grants
Selected Dance Performance Reviews in Nationally Recognized Newspapers Since 2002
(In Substitution for Book Review Section)
April 8, 2018 “While she was speaking, the dancers—Michelle Boulé, Christal Brown, Sarah Gamblin, Angie Hauser, Bronwen MacArthur, and Trébien Pollard—began to articulate luscious strands of choreography. Equally magnificent sweeping across the stage as they were standing still, it was clear that this was a group of experts; their years of experience having chiseled movement down to its barest essentials, leaving only the beautiful accuracy of physical truths.” Joanna Furnans, See Chicago Dance.
March 19, 2018 “The way the performers do the movement is remarkable. Though clearly choreographed, they move as if discovering these gestures for the first time, as if each decision were of the moment rather than rote memory...The choreography turns from suspended float to jarring hop to lilting crawl, each moment imbued with detail, accented by a quick shake of the foot or a subtle change in focus. Gamblin’s wild spontaneous energy contrasts with Bronwen MacArthur’s easy malleability and Pollard’s loping, soaring calm. Angie Hauser’s open playfulness differs from Michelle Boulé’s private intensity.” Kaitlin McCarthy, City Arts Magazine.
February 23, 2018 “But it’s the members of Miller’s ensemble who demonstrate the geographic spread of terrific dance intelligences; her dancers (Michelle Boulé, Christal Brown, Sarah Gamblin, Angie Hauser, Bronwen MacArthur, Trebien Pollard) live, teach, choreograph, and perform all over the U.S. and abroad.” Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice
February 27, 2016 “It didn’t get much better than the opening number, Sarah Gamblin’s poetic Dance #111, in which the Texas Woman’s University professor, feet planted, slowly and deliberately shifted into different poses by swaying and curving her body.” Manuel Mendoza, The Dallas Morning News
July 13, 2013 “Sarah Gamblin’s very well-made dance, [was] direct but more explosive and determined to undermine the balance of Gamblin and Johnson as they raised legs at angles just difficult enough to look uncomfortable or bounced against the floor, heavily enough to make me wince.” Barry Johnson, Oregon Arts Watch, (web)
May 5, 2008 "Sarah Gamblin and Jordan Fuchs’ duet ‘Not in But Here’ had a rich, full quality, largely due to Gamblin’s ability to carve through air with every available inch of her body. Even her fingertips are part of the dance." Clare Croft, The Austin American-Statesman
March 17, 2008 “Cool to the point of icy was Sarah Gamblin's Bend/Pop. Three women in shiny red pants lie on the floor, spinning their legs around. Once up, they cut a swath of space, swinging arms and legs with the razor alertness of praying mantises.”
August 15, 2011 “The ‘trio’ didn't steal anything from Gamblin's dancing; the spotlight was all hers. Her movements ranged from vulnerable to strong and back again. She exuded a confidence that was beautifully juxtaposed against the music's erratic sensibility. Her 15-minute piece didn't feel long enough; it left you wanting more.” Abby Keonig, Houston Press, Art Attack Blog
March 17, 2008 Not In But Here, choreographed and performed by Mr. Fuchs and Ms. Gamblin, was a fascinating display on detachment, where the two occupy the same space but barely acknowledge the other's existence. When they do bump into one another, Mr. Fuchs lifts his partner as though barely grazing the air. Margaret Putnam, The Dallas Morning News
October 10, 2007 “Sarah Gamblin’s Sonic Bowls of Yum-Yum was straight out strange, aided by sounds of shrieks, purrs, oohs and eerie wind whistles, Defiant, Ms. Gamblin plays a cat and mouse game with the musicians as she tumbles, stretches, flings her body around a stool or goads Mr. Lit with a glare.”
Margaret Putnam, The Dallas Morning News
Service Activities
International Level Service
Participant and Teacher Arts Diplomacy Residency tour. Serving over 20 diverse
communities including schools and community centers, in Columbia and Peru, through teaching with Bebe Miller Company. Sponsored by DanceMotion/USA and the U.S. Department of State.
National Level Service
Coordinator. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. National festival planning, administration, concert and teaching curation of national artists. TDIF is the largest improvisational dance festival in the U.S. with participants of around 250, annually.
Peer Reviewer. University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Peer Reviewer. Bowdoin College
Guest Artists and Teacher. Master Class. Middlebury College.
American College Dance Festival. Invited guest teacher for festival faculty. Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class. Dance Exchange. Washington, D.C Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class University of Maryland. Baltimore, MD Panel Coordinator and Facilitator. Form in Question Symposium on Ensemble Improvisation. Coordinated diverse panel of presenters to reveal philosophical connections between long-standing ensemble improvisational practices. Facilitator. Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Facilitated faculty performance for faculty concert.
Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class. Mam-Luft Dance Summer Intensive. Cincinnati, OH.
Guest Artist and Teacher. Master class. Dance Place. Washington, D.C.
Guest Artist and Teacher, Master class. Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Seattle, WA
Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class. Mam-Luft Dance Summer Intensive. Cincinnati, OH
Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. University of South Florida. Tampa, FL.
Guest Teacher, Barnard College, New York City, NY.
2012 Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class. Cultivate Dance Festival. Bethlehem, NH.
2012 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. Conduit Dance Summer Intensive. Portland, OR.
2012 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. Perpetual Motion Dance. Oklahoma City, OK.
2011 External Reviewer for University of Colorado. Reviewed the Promotion and Tenure Materials for Assistant Professor in Dance.
2011 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. Mam/Luft and Company Dance. Cincinnati, OH.
2011 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. Conduit Dance Summer Intensive. Portland, OR.
2011 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. KT Niehoff and Seattle Professional Dancers. Seattle, WA.
2009 External Reviewer for Utah Valley University. Reviewed the Promotion and Tenure materials for Assistant Professor.
2008 Guest Artist and Teacher, Master Class. Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Seattle, WA
2008 Guest Artist and Teacher. Master class. Conduit Summer Dance Festival. Portland, OR.
2008 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2008 Dance Faculty. Fargo Public Schools Performing Arts Camp. Fargo, ND.
2007 Member, Bates Dance Festival 25th Anniversary Gala organizing team, 2007. Assisted the nationally recognized Bates College Dance Festival Gala Celebration organizers in setting up and implementing gala activities.
Regional Service Activities
2024 Guest Artist and Teacher. American College Dance Festival, University of Texas, Austin.
2022 Guest artist and Teacher. American College Dance Festival, South Central Region. Lamar University, Beaumont.
2019 Guest artist and Teacher. American College Dance Festival, South Central Region. College Station.
2018 Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Co-host, coordinating member. Texas Woman’s University.
2018 Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class. Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts. Dallas, TX.
2018 Guest Artists and Teacher. Master Class. Arlington Heights High School. Arlington, TX
2017 Guest Artist and Teacher. Master class. 254 Festival. Waco, TX.
2017 Guest Artist and Teacher. Master Class. American College Dance Association
Conference. Collin College. McKinney, TX
2017 Dance Adjudicator: “All University ‘Sing’” Competition. Baylor University. Waco, TX
2017 Denton Black Film Festival. Festival volunteer. Customer experience volunteer. 2017 Indivisible Denton, Steering Committee. Strategizing and guiding the mission of grass-roots political organizing to develop community infrastructure that supports progressive advocacy and civic engagement.
2009- Present Coordinating Committee. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival.
2017 Embodied Spiritual Practices, teacher. Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Developed and taught community classes sharing somatic practices. 2017
2016 Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Chair of Lifespan Faith Development
Council. Coordinating volunteers and classes and raising funds.
2016 Artists’ Enclave of Denton. Day of the Dance Concert. Concert co- producer and
coordinator.
2016-18 City of Denton Library Board appointee. Serving on the Board of the Denton
Public Library System.
2016 Greater Denton Arts Council, Arts All Night, dance performance coordinator.
Curated a 30-minute program of dance featuring TWU Dance students.
2016 Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton Black Film Festival Pre-fest, dance performance coordinator. Curated a 30-minute program of dance featuring TWU
Dance students benefiting the Denton African American Scholarship Fund.
2015 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX. 2015 Co-organizer, Teacher. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Texas Woman’s University.
2015 Teacher. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival at Texas Woman’s University,
2015 Guest Teacher, American College Dance Festival and Conference. Texas Tech
University.
2015 Greater Denton Arts Council, Arts All Night, dance performance coordinator. Curated a 30-minute program of dance featuring TWU Dance students.
2014 Guest Teacher, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Sam Houston State University.
2013 Guest Artist and Teacher. Guest Residency. Oregon Ballet Theater Summer Intensive. Portland, OR.
2013 Teacher. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival Travel to San Marcos, Texas to serve the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival.
2013 Guest Teacher. American College Dance Festival. Sam Houston State University. 2012 Teacher. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival Fort Worth, TX.
2012 Co-Curator/Adjudicator: Dance Plus Series. Conduit Dance Center, Portland, OR.
2012 Guest Teacher. American College Dance Festival. Texas A&M University. Laredo, TX.
2011 Guest Teacher. American College Dance Festival. University of New Mexico, San Marcos, NM.
2011 Teacher. Texas Dance Improvisation Festival Travel to San Antonio, TX 2011 Guest Artist/ and Teacher. Guest Residency. Texas Christian University. Fort Worth, TX.
2010 Guest Artist and Teacher. Repetiteur Bebe Miller’s “Blessed” (1996). University of North TX.
University Level Service
2024 Coordinator for Bebe Miller residency for TWU Dance. Arranging housing, travel, courses taught and logistics.
2023 Coordinator for the Karen Nelson residency for TWU Dance. Arranging housing, travel, courses taught and logistics.
Organizer of the Sekou Heru master class in collaboration with the Health and Wellbeing Initiative and Fitness and Recreation.
Faculty Senate Executive Committee: Constitution and By-Laws Committee Chair.
Faculty Senate Representative. Ad hoc committee member for the writing of TWU Faculty Senate Resolution of Commitment to Anti-Racism (Fall 2021). Faculty Co-Lead. Health and Well Being Initiative: Movement Theme. Design and implementation of campus-wide activities promoting accessible, joyful movement.
Member. Undergraduate Council, Program review committee, core course review committee. 2014-present.
Member. Student Code of Conduct Committee.
Member. Faculty Development Leave Review Committee.
Member, Strategic Priorities Planning Committee.
Chair, Graduate Program Review Committee. Master of Arts Program in Visual Art.
Member, Curriculum Committee.
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Member, Academic Assessment Advisory Committee.
School of the Arts Level Service
2022-present 2019-2022. 2019
2013-14 2007
to 2011, 2013
Member PRC Committee for SOAD
Member, PRC Committee serving the Dept of Visual Art
Coordinator, Learning the Land Social History Walking Tour. Collaborating and production of this social practice artistic activity with artist Molly Sherman (ICI funded by TWU SOA for 1500.00 ) This role involved collaborating with the artist to coordinate and mentor 13 interdisciplinary student participants culminating in a public performance for the SOA Spring 2019 Arts Walk event.
Member, Search Committee. Department of Visual Arts.
Member, Arts Triangle Committee. Co-organizer and contributor of evening walking tour featuring works from all of the departments of the School of the Arts. Audience reached about 300.
Department Level Service
2023-24 2021-present
2022-pres 2021-pres
2020 2011-pres.
Chair. Dance Search Committee.
Advisor and-coordinator of Devising Emancipatory Curriculum for the TWU Division of Dance. Planning, organizing and facilitating a series of workshops, meetings and events that promote conversations, reflections and vision about ways that TWU Dance can lead the process of updating and diversifying the division’s curriculum and processes.
Brave Space. Co-facilitator with colleague Dr.Adesola Akinleye. Periodic Division-wide meetings to discuss current topics.
Bachelor of Arts Program Coordinator. AIIR Process. Annual Student Assessments.
Interim Undergraduate Program Coordinator Bachelor of Arts.
Chair, Dance Practices Committee. Develop department level outcomes and advancement criteria for each level of Modern and Ballet techniques. Develop and implement advancement procedures. Lead annual placement audition. Develop and implement grading standards.
2004-2022 2016, 2009
2011- present 2013- present
2016- present 2014-15 2002 –2020
2002 - present
2002- present
2002- present 2005 to 2011 2008- 2010 2007-2008
2005-present
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Liaison and Facilitator, American College Dance Festival. Annual registration, hotels, travel, festival liaison, budget, student coordination.
Co-organizer, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival at TWU. Organizing teaching schedules, publicity, facilities, guest artist invitation and lodging, performances and jam safety and standards.
Member, M.F.A. Committee. Coordinate and develop curricular strategies and standards.
Mentor, M.F.A. Graduate teaching assistants teaching studio courses. Each semester, visit GTA classes and provide written assessments. Prepare GTA syllabi.
Member. Strategic Planning Committee. Develop strategic planning priorities and plan implementation.
Chair, Dance Search Committee. Director of the undergraduate Dance Major with Education Minor.
Member. Recruitment committee. Attend periodic recruitment events at Hubbard Hall: attendance at the BTWSPVA Annual Senior Showcase: travel, teaching and presentation at ACDFA; travel to Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Texas Tech University, Barnard College, University of South Florida, Ohio University and University of Central Oklahoma for teaching Master Classes and speaking Co-producer, Dancemakers Series. Organize, coordinate and produce three dance concerts each semester, presenting the works of 20-45 student choreographers in TWU’s Dancemakers series.
Mentor, Undergraduate and Graduate student choreography. Attending rehearsals, providing written and verbal critical feedback for students emerging work.
Advisor to Graduate Teaching Assistant Production Coordinator. Directing and coordinating the production of three student concerts each semester.
Chair, Graduate Candidate Selection Committee. Serving as chair to selection process for incoming graduate students.
Chair, M.F.A. Committee. Curricular visioning, development and implementation of the Master of Fine Arts program.
Chair, MFA Work Group. Chairing and co-writing revision and redesign of the MFA curriculum in collaboration with colleagues Mary Williford-Shade and Jordan Fuchs in response to the 2007 NASD self-study.
Rotating Chair. Performance Committee. Coordinating the operations and implementation of the Performance and Production component of the Department of Dance. Leading department wide Performance meetings, coordinating the semester student choreography audition process, conceiving and implementing new policies.
2005, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020, 2022
Member, Dance Search Committee.
Membership in Professional Organizations
World Dance Alliance
American College Dance Festival Association National Dance Association
Dallas Dance Council
Greater Denton Arts Council
Significant Faculty Development Activities
2024 Bearnstow Dance Research Symposium. Three-day symposium gathering intergenerational dance scholar, educator, creator and practitioner peers to interrogate current issues impacting our field within the academy. Invited to present.
2023 Portland Ballet Theatre, Open Ballet Class. A short series of summer classes with Portland Ballet Theatre faculty.
Countertechnique TM One Body One Career Intensive, NYC. Two weeks and 60 hours of studio practice with Countertechnique founder Anouk Van Djik and certified teacher
Roseanna Tavarez.
2023 Countertechnique TM , Winter Warming Workshop with founder Anouk Van Djik, at
Gibney Dance Center, New York City.
2021 Dance Education Laboratory. Building Anti-Racist Dance Classrooms Workshop with Dr.
Nyama McCarthy-Brown and Frederick Curry. Six Hours. Certificate of Completion. 2020 Consent Culture in Contact Improvisation Symposium. Earthdance. Online.
2020 Countertechnique TM workshop with founder Anouk Van Djik. Gibney Studios. New
York City.
2016 Atlas Syllabus. Technique. Portland, OR.
2016 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Five-day workshop studying Contact
Improvisation
2016 Body Mind Centering Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
2016 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Five-day workshop with Joy Davis studying
Countertechnique®
2015 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Onye Ozuzu, Improvisation
2014 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Darrell Jones, Dance Improvisation
2014 Irene Dowd Workshop. Dance Kinesiology. New York City.
2012 Cultivate Dance Festival. The Architects. Bethlehem, NH.
2012 Irene Dowd Workshop. New York City.
2011 Teaching Residency with KT Niehoff.
2010 Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation. Five-day Intensives with K.J. Holmes and
Susan Rethorst.
2009 Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation. Five-day intensive workshop with Benoit
LaChambre.
2008 Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation. Five-day intensive workshop
with Andrea Olsen.
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