Presentations

International Association of Dance Medicine and Science

Annual Conference, September 2025

Session: "Fostering Psychological Wellness through Somatic Dance Pedagogy"

Somatic Dance Conference, July 2024

Session: "Stillness and Stir: Spatial Awareness and Intent--Inroads 

to Embodied Choice"

Performance: "Unfolding". Solo semi-improvisational performance exploring the relationship between somatic practices, 

performance/creative practice, and performative writing.

Port Townsend, WA

Somatic Practices and Officer Wellness

February 2024, October 2024, February 2025

Workshop/Presentation for POST Academy through CMUTech

Moss Performing Arts Center, CMU

East West Somatics Conference: Exploring Shin Somatics Curriculum and Narratives, January 2023

Presentation/performance: "Unfolding". Solo semi-improvisational performance exploring the relationship between somatic practices, 

performance/creative practice, and performative writing.

Zion, UT

National Dance Education Organization Annual Conference, October 2022

Session:  "Improvisation in Ballet: Disrupting tradition to create new inroads". Interactive workshop exploring various pedagogical strategies 

and applications to diverse settings.

Atlanta, GA

Dance Studies Association, October 2022

Virtual presentation: "Somatic Ballet Pedagogy: Questioning traditions/Exploring possibilities"

Vancouver, Canada (virtual)

Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival, July 2022

Presentation: "Improvisation in Ballet Class" 

Panel/presentation: "Oh Those Words: Language for Movement and Transformation" (presented with Marin Roper and Sarah Donohue)

Geneva, NY

TED Talk, June 2022

"Moving to Connect"

Interactive presentation focusing on somatic practices and concluding with an improvisational performance. Creative collaborators/performers: Laura Bradley, 

Kara Farmer, Cassidy Phillips

Grand Junction, CO

EastWest Somatics Conference, December 2019

Somatics in Phenomenology, Performance, and Leadership

Presentation/performance: "Chapter(s)" Interactive, improvisational presentation and performance exploring kinesthetic empathy

Zion, UT

Emerging Pathways Within Somatic Movement and Dance Education
 NDEO special topic conference in partnership with ISMETA
 June 21-23, 2019
 

Presentation: "Somatic Ballet: Developing Awareness of Self, Other, and Community"
 Gibney Dance, New York, NY
 

ISU Wellness Symposium, May 2019 

Presentation: "Movement Based Self-Care" 

Idaho State University, Counseling Services, Pocatello, ID. 

Positive Body Image Symposium 

Presentation: "Body Stories--Discovering Connections through Movement, Awareness, and Expression" (2019) 

Presentation: "Body Image and Dancer Wellness" (2018) 

Idaho State University, Gender Resource Center, Pocatello, ID 

Intermountain Gender and Sexuality Conference April 2018 

Presentation: "No Manifesto--Challenging Expectations Regarding Gender and Dance" Idaho State University, Department of Communications, Pocatello, ID 

Connections, Knowledge, and Leadership: A New Era in Dance Education
 NDEO National Conference
 October 4-7, 2018
 

Co-presentation: "Cultivating Empathy to Create Connection"
 (co-presenter Courtney World) Hyatt Regency, La Jolla, CA
 

Deepening through Dialogue: Effective Methods of Feedback in Dance Education and Beyond
 IDEO State Conference
 September 15, 2018
 

Presentation: "Somatic Practices and Technique class"
 

College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID
 

Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival
 July 11, 2018
 

Co-Presentation with Courtney World: "Cultivating Empathy to Create Connection"


Hobart William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
 

Somatic Dance Conference and Performance Festival 
 July 14-17, 2016
 

Presentation: "Partnering the Space: A journey from inner to outer and back again"
 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY