Recent Courses
Teaching Summary
2019 Francophone Workshop. Duke University, RAC 224 April 5, 2019.
2018 Black Dance, Workshop: Life is Danced: Tradition in Motion. Duke University April 17, 2018.
2018 Francophone Workshop. Duke University, RAC 224 March 30, 2018.
2014 Guest Instructor, “Practicing Power through Movement”, Wurtele Center for Work and Life, Smith College,
2013 Workshop, “Jalidon and Oral Historians.” By invitation through Duke House Course: Spoken Word and Slam Poetry in Context: The Art of Social Commentary,
2013 Workshop, Wild Heart Yoga Iemanja Retreat, Durham
2012 Guest Instructor/Artist Talk, “Ndepp” Indigenous Medicine and Global Health. By invitation of David Boyd and the Global Health Institute, Duke University,
2011 Workshop, for Projeto Didá Banda Feminina, and Didá Escola de Música. Two music and dance sessions with Projeto Didá, an all female organization located in the Pelourinho, known as the historic district of Salvador de Bahia Brasil.
2010-Present Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance, Duke University Dance Program
2008-Present Co-Instructor, Baldwin Scholars, Duke University
1999-2010 Assistant Professor of the Practice of Dance, Duke University Dance Program
2006-2007 Six-month residency in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia, Brasil.
2005-2006 Guest Artist Residency Elon University Department of Performing Arts, Elon, NC.
1994 Instructor/Developer Techniques in African Dance Forms and Dances of the African Diaspora,
Duke University Dance Program Durham, NC.
Advising & Mentoring Summary
2019- Advisor to Namajala Naomi Washington (Graduate)
2019- Mentor to Ife Michelle Presswood (Graduate)
2019- Mentor to Alice Baldwin Scholars (Undergraduate)
Trinity 2017 Major Advisor, Eufern Pan
Trinity 2015 Major Advisor, Rebecca Holmes
Trinity 2015 Faculty Advisor, Miurel Price Program II Capstone Research Independent Study
Trinity 2012 Dance Major Advisor/Senior Project Advisor/Kadeisha Kilgore, Mellon Mays Fellow/PathWays Chapel Scholar