Classes, Workshops, and Coaching

I bring classical training from the San Francisco Ballet School, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, and The Juilliard School (BFA 2003) combined with a sustained and varied 30-year international performance career to my teaching, coaching, rehearsal direction, choreographic assistance, and curriculum development.

I have designed and facilitated workshops and classes in pre-professional and higher-education contexts to all levels of dancers, administrators and artists.

What I offer:

  • Ballet (Basic to Advanced)

  • Expanded Ballet Technique for Contemporary Dancers

  • Improvisation

  • Living Composition for Dancers and Musicians

  • Working Theories of the Professional Performing Artist

  • Workshops around workspace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • Private Coaching

Workshops / Speaking Engagements/Publications

Ballet, Pointe, and Modern Techniques, SIS Wollishofen, Braswell Arts Center Basel, Infinite Dance Zürich

Co-Directed and Published Disrupting Harm in Dance Curriculum, Online 2024

Drafting Policy/Guidelines, International Bodily Autonomy Cohort (Netherlands)

Consultation, TANZKONGRESS 2022, Germany

Seminar/Masterclass. ZHdK, MFA Performance Studies, Zürich

Workshop “On Feedback and Abuse”, HfMDK Frankfurt

Seminar on Consent and Performance, ZZT Köln

Essay, “On Who Doesn’t Pay, Financial Abuse in Dance”, Online

Podcast - MovementTalks, Abuse in Dance

Podcast - DIYDancer, “Messy Talk” and Healing Through Dance

Working Group - Personal Safety for Dance, International

Workshop: Discrimination/Abuse in Dance, ZZT Köln

Workshop: Discrimination/Abuse in Dance: HfMDK Frankfurt

Consultation: Code of Conduct for Mousonturm/TanzTage Rhein Main Germany

Publication, Chapter: “Artist’s Survival Guide” Cntr d’Art Contemporain Genève

Curation and Panel Appearance on #metoo, Tanz im August, Berlin

Workshop: Implicit Bias. Dramaturgische Gesellschaft Konferenz, Jena, DE

Training: Introduction to Intimacy Coordination/Direction, Brussels, BE

Workshop: Abuse. Tanzfestival Rhein-Main, Mousonturm, Frankfurt

Workshop: Abuse, Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst und Musik, Frankfurt

Moderated Talk on Abuse in Dance. Tanzplattform/imPACT18, PACT, Essen

Roundtable, Safeguarding Dancers, IADMS 28th Annual Conference, Helsinki

Workshop: Dance. Goethe Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

Open Forum: Abuse of Power, Performance Space New York

Workshop: Discrimination/Abuse in Dance. Tanz im August, Berlin

Workshop “<interrupted> = cyfem + queer” CREAMCAKE Symposium, Berlin

Open Forum: Abuse in Dance. Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

Workshops/Feminist Library Exhibition, Artist Summit/Tanzplattform, Essen

Research/Publication - Established Whistle. Launched Website. 2017

Masterclass: Forsythe’s “Sider”. Biennale College Di Danza, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

Workshop: Improvisation for Musicians and Dancers. Goethe Institute, Mexico

Workshop: Improvisation. imPACT16, Essen, Germany

Workshop: Improvisation. Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Frankfurt

Workshop: Improvisation. Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

Workshop: Improvisation. Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Tanzlabor 21, Frankfurt

Workshop: Improvisation. Movement Invention Project, New York

Workshop: Improvisation. Girls Rock!, Pittsburgh, PA

Workshop: Improvisation. The Playground, New York

Workshop: Improvisation. Gina Gibney Dance, New York

Seminar. The Juilliard School, New York

Modern Dance Faculty. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School/Civil Light Opera Academy, Pgh, PA

Ballet Faculty. Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA


Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2021 m2ACT Migros - Kulturprozent, Switzerland

2019-2020 Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, USA

2019 Frankfurt am Main, Culture Grant, Germany

2017 Frankfurt am Main, Culture Grant, Germany

2016-18 Resident Fellow at Pact Zollverein Choreographic Center, Germany

2016 Research and Creation Residency - Banff, Canada

2013 Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”, USA

2011 Solo Choreography Award — National Society of Arts and Letters, USA


Press (briefly)

Pointe Magazine, 2001, I’m Kinda In Love with Frances Chiaverini by Jennifer Heimlich

thINKing DANCE, Questions for the Disruption of Harm -by Emilee Lord, 2024

DANCE Magazine, Is It time to rethink how we use touch in the studio? By K. Maguire, 2020

Dance Informa, 2024, Whistle Releases free online toolkit aimed at disrupting harm in dance,