Started teaching at NDI-NM:

Began teaching guest classes in April 2007, came on staff June 2007

Official NDI-NM Title:

Where she teaches:

At the Dance Barns and for the School for the Performing Arts, Summer Institute, and Summer Immersion programs

Dance Styles:  

Modern, Ballet, Yoga

Why Do You Teach NDI-NM?

Coming from many years of teaching in the New York City area, I find that teaching at NDI-NM is a treat! Not only does The Dance Barns offer every comfort with its beautiful, large studios, but the staff is incredible and the students are truly inspiring.

I have never working with such a talented, devoted, open and positive group of young people, it must be because NDI-NM sets high standards and the students just keep rising above the challenges to meet their goals!

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1. Favorite dancing style?
Contemporary/Modern

2. Your favorite Santa Fe attraction?
Bobcat Bite

3. First job?
Visual art teacher at a girls' camp in the White Mountains of New Hampshire

4. One crazy or interesting thing most people don’t know about you?
Loves going to the Roller Derby

5. Have you ever danced with someone famous?
Several classmates from NYU/Tisch are now famous choreographers in New York, Israel, and California

6. Who inspired you to teach/dance?
I had an English teacher in high school who really inspired me to teach. I learned from him that when a teacher is truly gifted, it almost doesn't matter what subject s/he is teaching--the really important things span across all subjects: know yourself, take responsibility, accept challenges, do your best work, ask questions!

7.What is the one thing you would like your students to walk away with at the end of the class/performance?
A sense of owning the work and the art form--this is YOU creating this work, dancing this dance, telling this story. And posture and alignment---for dancing and for moving though one's daily life with efficiency and ease. How we move and present ourselves in our lives speak volumes about who we are.

8.What was your proudest moment – either professionally or as a teacher?
In the Fall of 2005 I presented an evening length work called BOOK DANCES. It was a site-based dance-theater work that traveled through a 19th century Brooklyn church. I had created the piece slowly over the previous 3 years, choreographing duets based on short scenes from four classic novels. My company of 8 dancers performed each of their duets 4 times in an evening--the audience was divided into 4 groups and rotated throughout the building to view each dance "scene" in a different room, hallway, or chamber. At the end of the evening, all 8 characters from the 4 books "met" in a dramatic, whirlwind finale! It was lots of fun, an unbelievable amount of hard work, and incredibly satisfying to be able to take a vision and get to present it in its most fully realized form. We also got a great review in the New York Times!

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Directions:

The Dance Barns

1140 Alto Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501