About Me

My philosophy as a dance instructor is to promote artistry and emotional connection to my dancers’ experience in their learning. It is important to me that my students feel comfortable expressing themselves through dance and pushing themselves to achieve whatever it is that they wish to get out of taking dance lessons. Dance should be accessible and expressive, so I would want to be careful that my lessons are not fixed on a certain ability of a certain body, and that anyone can succeed in my class regardless of the way that their body naturally moves. This also means to me that I may need to adapt my language to dancers of different backgrounds. I would never want to isolate dancers without ballet training or misunderstand dancers who are inexperienced or trained differently from me. Dance is a universal language that transcends words and connects all. Intention is very important to me as a dancer, teacher, and person. Before working on strength or flexibility skills or even complex movements, dancers need to know what they are doing and why. Intent in not only movement but goals is important to me as a teacher. I want my students to feel like they belong in the class and want to be there, so it’s important to me to identify the intent and help my students get what they need out of dance. I have developed a personal emotional connection through dance throughout my life and it is something I strive to foster in at least of my students. This connects to my personal life philosophy because I believe that everyone has the ability to access passion for something, so as a dance educator, I would like to help teach those who have a passion for dance in an environment that nurtures that passion rather than wearing it down. To promote this personal connection with dance, I aspire to help students find their own strengths and build their own relationship with dance, detaching what preconceived standards they may have encountered. Finding a style that fits you can go a long way in terms of understanding that dance was made for everybody and that anyone can find passion in it. I hope to provide an environment that students feel comfortable in, not only dance-wise but personally, to feel surrounded by support in all parts of life is important when students are pushing themselves outside of their comfort zone. To learn you must be okay with making mistakes, and no environment where students are scared to fail will push them anywhere they have not already been. In my opinion, this needs to be paired with a supportive and loving community that accepts all.