Teaching Practice
Photo by Haley Lowenthal, courtesy of Bates Dance Festival
Laura is a dedicated dance educator, passionate about the possibility to somatically, artistically, and intentionally sharpen one’s experience of the world through the vehicle of dance. Her movement courses oriented in history, theory, and contemporary culture take shape around the core idea of listening. Guided by a prioritization of learning with open curiosity and care, Laura’s teaching practice aims to broaden participants’ awareness of the self and how the self interacts with and impacts their greater surroundings and community through heightened attention towards embodied listening.
Sharing a wide range of movement practice/technique classes, Laura often utilizes the values of her self-developed Slo practice. Developed in an Analytical & Critical Thinking Pedagogy Fellowship at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities College of Liberal Arts, Laura activates the Self-Feedback Learning Loop as a method of preparing pre-professional dancers for the dance field. This methodology aims to equip the individual dancer with a self-motivated practice of discipline, awareness, and deepening of artistry.