Though technicality is a large part of my values as a teacher, the concept that dance is meant for everyone is instilled in my students. The applications of this idea in my teaching methods are seen through structured improvisation, the use of creative flow, allowing for student adaptations to material, and a wide variety of movement explorations. All of the methods are focused through investigating the relationship between performance development, artistic quality, and technical proficiency.

I encourage my students to shift in and out of conscious thought while dancing, which helps each student be able to discover his/her inner truth in movement through awareness.  Implementing exercises that emphasize shifting in mindsets as well as explorative movement awakens personal creativity.  Bringing conscious awareness to the subconscious mind within technique is also important to my approach because of my interest in emotions and intuition. I use emotional responses and intuition to drive how I interact with students as well as how to shape the class as it progresses over time. Structurally, I create form that allows for a sense of freedom to flow from one instance to the next, providing space for the students to recognize their contribution to the class as a whole.  I am inspired by people and their stories; thus, I get to know students on a personal level in order to develop a class structure that will accommodate the needs of the class as a whole and individually.

For me, it is important, when asking for dedication from students, to foster an experience that is invigorating and challenging. Reflection, feedback (both peer and instructor based), and physical touch are also vital aspects of my teaching methodologies.  Allowing for individual, peer, and constructive feedback opens up many windows of opportunity for personal growth and development as a technician and creative artist.

Developing a well-rounded awareness of the body in motion is the basis of my pedagogical approach for adult beginners in Post Modern Contemporary Dance technique.  Providing experiences through movement along with the refinement of the mind and body connection drive my inspiration to continually find ways to relate to, engage and inform an individual dancer in his/her own experience of the body in the moment of movement.  Because I do not separate my artistry, career choices, or creative practice from my pedagogy, I strive to offer imaginative approaches to facilitating a continuously shifting and engaging environment for the individual creative personality to grow and flourish within a technical form of movement.

In terms of movement, many influential artists before me and with whom I work now inspire the style in which I create movement.  While I have gained immense full body knowledge in many dance forms from each person, my movement vocabulary is unique.  Based off of my knowledge base and my love for modern dance, the movement I would be teaching would be momentum based, with weight and plane shifting, awareness to space and time, and accumulation as linking concepts for the awareness of the body in motion.  The body in motion is important to me because I believe strongly in the healing powers (physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually) of movement in the body.