“Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Pedagogy”
“...A NEW VOICE MAKING A GUIDE FOR CARE IN THE WAKE OF THE #METOO MOVEMENTS...”
My book, for dance educators and theatrical movement teachers, in now available from Routledge!
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This book is meant for teachers, and can also be used for a full departmental professional development (get details from Momentum Stage or Intimacy Professionals Education Collective) or as a text book for dance pedagogy or movement pedagogy courses.
“At times, this book feels like it bores into my own student experiences and memories as a young dancer. Indeed, care-full pedagogic practices stand “in opposition to many of the teaching methods and traditions of European-derived performances found in many classrooms”–ones where there are master teachers and classroom hierarchies that limit opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and self-reflection. In a psychologically safe, trauma-informed, consent forward classroom, students feel welcome to “ask questions, fail, express their needs, opinions, and ideas, work together, and challenge the status quo.” This classroom values growth over being right, support over competition, and creativity over perfection...
I want to be in this classroom. Do you? ”
Read more about consent, trauma, power, and safety in dance and theatre in both educational and performance spaces on Substack.
Care-full Creativity on Substack
Book Contributions
I have contributed chapters or interviews to the following books:
Applied Theatre and Gender Justice. ed. Brenner and Cruz. Author of chapter 17, “Tools for Equity and Collaboration.” Available from Routledge
Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education. By Daugherty and Trommer-Beardslee. Interview on Boundary Practices and Tools. Available from Intellect.
The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guide Book. By Haney. Interview and included note in chapter 16, “Intimacy and Dance.” Available from Routledge.
Form/Reform in
Somatics
Originally published in DanceGeist magazine in October 2021, this piece came out of my MFA concentration in Decolonial Arts Praxis and teaching experiences of decentering whiteness in Somatics and dance.
A must-read for Pilates, Yoga, and Somatics instructors.
Articles on Power, Consent, Trauma, and Psychological Safety in Dance Spaces
An Assessment of Care: Ungrading as a Trauma-Informed, Consent-Forward Practice in Academic Dance. Journal of Dance Education. 2025 Special Issue.
On Teaching- and not grading- in Higher Ed Dance Spaces. Dance Teacher Magazine Online. October 2024.
Psychological Safety in the Western Concert Dance Technique Class. Video essay and transcript with Halie Bahr and Cat Kamrath Monson. Published in Conversations a Journal of the Dance Studies Association. Fall 2024.
Found in DanceGeist magazine 2021-2022.
Trauma-Informed Dance Spaces. Dancegeist Magazine. April 2022.
The Harm of “Classroom Management''.Dancegeist Magazine. December 2021.
Equitable and Creative Feedback. May 2021.
Creating a Culture of Consent in Dance. April 2021.
Disrupting Oppressive Patterns of Powers in Dance. March 2021.
History of Power Dynamics in Dance. Feb. 2021.
Found in the Journal of Movement Arts Literacy, Sept. 2020. Peer reviewed.
Intimacy Direction and L/BMS
I have written and designed 3 other books for dance teachers that all support Momentum Stage!
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