Education

• Doctoral Candidate, Program in Dance History and Theory, UC Riverside, 2001-present
  
  
• B.A., Linguistics, minor in Cognitive Science, cum Laude, College Honors Program, UCLA, June 2001

Research Interests

• Dance and Cognition
   
• Psychology and the Arts
   
• Dance Theory and History
   
• Performance Studies
   
• Cognitive Psychology
   
• Philosophy of Mind
   
• Research methodologies and technologies
   
• Sci-art
   
  

Honors/Awards

• Dean's Fellowship for Graduate Study, UC Riverside, 2001-2006
   
• Dissertation Research Grant, UC Riverside, 2006-7
   
• Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, UC Riverside, 2002-3 and 2006-7
   
• Dance Faculty Research Grant, UC Riverside, 2002-3
   
• Distinguished Bruin Award, UCLA, 2001
   
• Dean's Prize for Undergraduate Research, UCLA, May 2001
   
• Alumni Scholar, UCLA, 2000-01
   
• Undergraduate Research Program Stipend Award, UCLA, 2000
   
• Lena de Groff scholarship, UCLA, 2000
   
  

Organizations and Services

• Congress on Research and Dance (CORD) - Board of Directors (graduate student representative), Editorial Board (Newsletter Editor)
   
• Society of Dance History Scholars
   
• International Society for Gesture Studies
   
  

Research/Professional activities

• Dramaturg/Production Assistant, The Forsythe Company, Frankfurt, Germany, 2006-present
   
• Freelance research consultant, Ballett Frankfurt, Germany, 2001-3
   
• Undergraduate research assistant, UCLA Speech Error Corpus (UCLASEC) project, 1999-2000; Victoria Fromkin, faculty mentor

Publications and Presentations

• "Integrating Dance and Cognitive Science: Toward Emancipatory Research,” forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, Tempe, Arizona, November 2006.
   
  
• "Spatial and Temporal Deixis in Classical Ballet Épaulement," paper presented at the First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, June 5-8, 2002.
   
  

Academic Teaching Experience

• Adjunct Instructor, Liberal Education for Arts Professionals (LEAP) program, St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, 2006-present
   
• Instructor, University of California Riverside, 2002-4
   
  

Professional Dance Experience

• Ballet Nacional de España, Madrid
  
• Compagnia di Balletto Italiano (Carla Fracci, Dir.), Milan/Palermo, Italy
  
• Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich, Germany
  
• Tulsa Ballet Theater, Oklahoma

Dance Teaching Experience

• Ballet Mistress/Choreographer's Assistant, Salzburger Landestheater, Austria 1995-98
  
• Ballet Mistress, Theater Vorpommern, Germany 1996
  
• Guest Teacher, Mozarteum College of Performing Arts, Salzburg, Austria 1996-97
  
• Company Guest Teacher: Vogtland Theater (Plauen, Germany), Tiroler Landestheater (Innsbrück, Austria), Tanztheater Münster (Germany), Ulmer Ballett Theater (Germany), Ballett Augsburg (Germany), Nye Carte Blanche Company (Bergen, Norway), Djazzex (Den Haag, Netherlands), Tanztendenz München (Munich)
  
• Freelance Teacher: Dance Center Iwanson (Munich, 1987-95), Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria, 1994-5), Tanzprojekt München (Munich, 1987, 1994-5), ABC Studios (Munich, 1994-5), Tanzwerkstatt Burghausen (Germany, 1994-5), Cooperativa per lo Spettacolo Culturale (Milan, Italy, 1986), Belvoir Terrace (Lenox, Mass., 1985), Pacific Ballet School (Palo Alto, Ca., 1983-4)  Inland Pacific Ballet (Montclair, CA)
  
• Guest Teacher: Virginia Ballet Theater/Tidewater Ballet Association (Norfolk, Va.), Charlotte Ballet Association (Charlotte, N.C.) 
  

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