Higher Education Programs

I woke up this morning and wanted to write you a love letter with my gratitude and admiration. The Dance and Sustainability Project is amazingly beautiful and powerful. I am so grateful we shared this project together, and so proud of the final product. Kim Chandler Vaccaro, Director of Dance, Rider University

Director Lynn Neuman teaching contemporary dance partnering.

Workshops/Master Classes

  • Contemporary Partnering: A Progressive and Balanced Approach

  • Modeling Complexity: Approaches to Making Movement in reflecting a Complex World

  • Performing Arts Activism: Make What You Do Count

  • Water/Power/We: Movement as a Model for Environmental Justice

  • Sustainable Movement Practices: Somatics and Aesthetics

  • Make Something: Re-envisioning Meaning and Value in Performance

My students were struck by your ability to make meaningful art and ability to write and speak convincingly about your work. They liked watching you take risks in front of the class and admired your ability to show vulnerability. They also enjoyed learning about the way you have taken something meaningful to you and used it as a positive force in your life. Janna Levin, Associate Professor, North Carolina School of the Arts

 

Future Currents: LA River Festival at California State University

Residencies

Residencies can last from 3 days to an entire academic year with multiple engagements. Here are some examples of past programs:

  • Creating new or setting existing dances with students performing with the Company

  • Sustainable Practices in the Arts: creative reuse of materials for sets, costumes and installations.

  • Cross Disciplinary collaboration with arts and sciences. See Future Currents: The LA River.

  • A selection of workshops, performances and lectures.

Thank you for your creative leadership. You realized such an original and beauty-filled event. Of course, the event itself was only the tip of the iceberg. The months-long process was a major part of the program's impact, with many student having transformative experiences.

Thor Steingraber, Executive Director, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at California State University

 

Lynn Neuman’s TED style talk at the APAP conference.

Lectures/Key notes

  • The Activist Artist: Making a Difference in the World

  • Artist in Community: Impact at the Local Level

  • Close the Loop: Sustainable Arts Practices