Teaching Philosophy
Guest artist at Michigan State University
Teaching Modern Dance at Davidson College
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I use dance and movement study to push the boundaries of academic knowledge production and learning within the academy. I challenge students to produce, edit, and question knowledge through the body--itself a marginalized site of knowledge production within the academy. By pushing societal and educational norms with mindfulness and creative clarity that engages the dancing body, I seek to expand the notion of who and what can be considered intellectual.
In technique classes, I work to create a community of learners who can explore a specific dance technique along with an integration of their own particular bodily alignment and expression. My study of Somatics comes from my desire to shift the culture of health in dance and the world. My teaching draws from my ongoing education in Body Mind Centering, Alexander Technique, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Laban Movement Analysis to support an interior culture of health and seek to reduce injury, and support the longevity of the dancing body. |
Workshops and Guest Lectures
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Crip Somatics
This workshop explores how somatic practices can consider cure narratives, healing, and ableism. An underlying question framing this workshop is: rather than working with people who have disabilities how can somatic practices themselves engage with a new way of understanding through disability paradigm?
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Disability Studies, Ableism, and DanceThis lecture discusses ableism within the field of dance using a disability studies lens. A disability studies lens focuses on the social construction of disability and the ways that disability is created in different environments. We will discuss the terms disability and dance, unpack how aesthetics affect culture and identity, discuss disability aesthetics and the models of disability, and the key tropes of disability. We will center dance and movement studies and think about how dance might resist ableist aesthetics. All are welcome to attend please; come prepared to chat about dance, disability, and move!
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Disability Aesthetics and Labor:
Making Dances / Doing Social Justice
In this Seminar, Bailey Anderson discusses the intersections of dance, disability studies, and social justice. A disability studies lens focuses on the social construction of disability and the ways that disability is created in different environments. Disability operates as an identity, form of oppression, and a site of pride and culture. This seminar will focus on Disability Culture and labor practices that question our normative ideas of what constitutes productive bodies in our communities. We will watch popular culture dances from shows such as Dancing with the Stars and talk about how disability studies can inform dance making practices and classroom teaching and research.
Making Dances / Doing Social Justice
In this Seminar, Bailey Anderson discusses the intersections of dance, disability studies, and social justice. A disability studies lens focuses on the social construction of disability and the ways that disability is created in different environments. Disability operates as an identity, form of oppression, and a site of pride and culture. This seminar will focus on Disability Culture and labor practices that question our normative ideas of what constitutes productive bodies in our communities. We will watch popular culture dances from shows such as Dancing with the Stars and talk about how disability studies can inform dance making practices and classroom teaching and research.
Artist Residency photos by photos by Corey Damocles and Kaiyue Zhang.