Teaching
As a movement educator, I am deeply committed to fostering a student-centered learning environment that encourages risk, inquiry, and experimentation. My primary focus is on nurturing each student's creative and critical growth by emphasizing the importance of choice-making regarding movement quality, writing, and speaking about what the body/mind can do through dance.
My passion for dance as a physical discipline and intellectual praxis drives my intention to create an encouraging and positive atmosphere where students can thrive as artists. I view my role as both a learner and a facilitator, creating a space that serves as a laboratory for collaboration and innovation. By integrating science, athleticism, and psychology into my approach, I guide students in exploring the rich intersectionality of dance.
My pedagogy is centered on the principles of Rooting, Flowing, and Beaming, which arise from integrating somatic practice, ecology, imagery, improvisation, and structured analytical frameworks.
Classes
Body Mechanics
Winter and Spring 2026 UCLA World Arts + Cultures/ Dance
In this course we will investigate the somatic, kinesthetic, and anatomical foundations that aid in fostering health, longevity, and freedom in a moving body. Through lecture, discussion, embodied movement labs, reflection, and composition, we will explore the relationships between strength and flexibility, structure and functionality, and your own awareness.
Modern/Postmodern Dance
Winter 2026 UCLA World Arts + Cultures/ Dance
This course is an introduction to modern and postmodern dance techniques through technical movement practice, choreography, reflection, and observation. Rather than presenting a single dominant lineage, the course traces multiple, intersecting histories of modern and postmodern dance, foregrounding artists who challenged virtuosity, hierarchy, and Eurocentric definitions of technique.
Ballet
Fall 2025 UCLA World Arts + Cultures/ Dance
This course is an introduction to ballet technique through movement practice, reflection, and observation. Each class will include a warmup, barre and center exercises emphasizing the correct terminology, and time for journaling or discussion. There will be a focus on learning how curiosity and intellect can aid in releasing muscular tension, cultivating spatial awareness, and finding joy within the physical form of ballet. The quarter will be divided into three parts structured around the principles of ROOTING, FLOWING, and BEAMING. There will be an emphasis on a corporeal relationship to the elements: earth, air, sun/fire, and water by using natural imagery to deepen connections to our imagination and the world at large. We will question how ballet can be an ever evolving practice by looking at it as both a methodology and inquiry into embodied presence, physical training, and joy. Together we will develop physical strength, sensory attunement, and work on finding efficient and effortless alignment, coordination, rhythm, and power in the body.
Ecosomatic Movement and Improvisation
(Master Classes/Guest Teaching)
This course explores ecosomatic movement as an integrative practice that nurtures body awareness and ecological consciousness. Ecosomatics is comprised of learning how to be in touch within one’s own body, and extending this awareness and connection to all living beings, animals, vegetation, and ecosystems at large. Through the use of somatic modalities such as Pilates, Alexander Technique, Primal Movement, and yoga, alongside post-modern and contemporary dance techniques such as improvisation (solo, group, and contact), floorwork, and phrase work we will investigate spatially integrated components of dance movement that lend themselves to a connection with nature. The studio will transform into an ecosystem that relies on the presence, care, and collaboration among all beings in the space.