Upcoming

I’ve officially completed my coursework at Teachers College in the EdD Dance Education program and have moved on to the dissertation phase!

Alongside my Doctoral work this spring and summer I am looking forward to participating in and presenting at a host of conferences and gatherings both here and abroad with a focus on Somatic Movement Education and Early Childhood Dance Education.

2024

April
April 13
The International Symposium on Embodied Cognition
Hosted by the Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health

May
May 6–11
Ecosomatics workshop and a one-day conference in St. George, Utah
I will be presenting on the life and work of Nancy Topf and participating in the workshop.

June
June 22-23
Children and Youth Performance Conference in Toronto, Canada
I will be presenting as part of the ‘case studies’ portion of the conference

July
July 5–12
DaCi International in Ljubljana Slovenia
I will be presenting my research in somatic pedagogy for early childhood and participating in the larger conference.

July–August
Creative dance classes with a focus on somatics for the nursery school children at 92NY’s summer camp K’Ton Ton.

2023

May
Successfully proposed my Dissertation research
The possibilities of a somatic movement education pedagogy for the early childhood dance education class—an inclusion of ‘personal literacy’ through dance education
Teachers College, Columbia University, EdD Dance Education Program

June
Celebrated the one year anniversary of the Publication of
A guide to a somatic movement practice
The Anatomy of Center
by Nancy Topf with Hetty King, University Press Of Florida 2022

July

July 6–8
Presented “The life and work of Nancy Topf” at the SOMATIC DANCE CONFERENCE Tensegrity: connection and resilience, Geneva, N.Y.

July 10–13
Taught creative dance, 5-7 & 9-11 at the 92Y Summer Dance Program

July 21–23
Presented “Somatic movement education for early childhood”
at Bill Evans 9th annual Somatic Dance Conference, Port Townsend, WA

July 26–30
Attended and participated in ANCHORED IN HOPE: EXPANDING HORIZONS, daCi USA National Gathering, Hope College, Holland Michigan

August
New Listing on the Thinking Body Institute website education page as part of the Third Generation of contributors to the Mabel Todd legacy.