Teresa Fellion
website: https://bodystoriesfellion.org
Teaching Artist Experience
My role as an Artistic Director for BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, a choreographer and educator has allowed me to develop a myriad of experiences as a teaching artist. After facing COVID-19 closures, I developed a virtual education platform for my dance company and have successfully delivered virtual dance education programming to pre-professional, professional, adult, and youth dancers. I have used my virtual dance education program to teach both technical, improvisation, and composition classes. I continued these educational initiatives in my newest appointment as the Adjunct Professor at the Arts & Education Center in New Jersey. Classes consist of in-person and online semester-long courses in technique, composition, and improvisation with Middlesex, Monmouth and Union Community Colleges, involving high school and college students. With my experience in designing and implementing both traditional and virtual curricula, I believe I am equipped to teach in any setting which has also led me to teach The Culturally Diverse Language of Dance course at SUNY Old Westbury. I have had numerous teaching experiences at colleges and have offered many master classes and workshops. I have previously taught at the Pace University Summer ARTS Program, Sarah Lawrence College, Wilson College, University of Southern Mississippi, Barnard College Liberty State Partnerships, and most recently, at StudioRepublik Conservatory in Dubai. At StudioRepublik, I directed the dance department, was lead faculty, and I also partnered with the theater and music departments. While there, I coordinated and designed curriculum and taught a full schedule of adult and youth programming and strategized community engagement planning and implementation. These opportunities have truly immersed me in the field of dance education at both a professional and high artistic level. I am an experienced teacher of modern, contemporary, ballet, Cameroonian dance, jazz, hip-hop, partnering + contact improvisation, improvisation, and composition. Additionally, I have experience in arts management, dance film, writing, anatomy, dance history, and I have become passionate about exploring the creative ways in which my students can seek their own artistic paths. One of my core philosophies in regards to teaching is enabling my students to think outside of the typical norms of physical health and for them to embrace the arts as a factor of their overall wellbeing and personal development.
My role as an Artistic Director for BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, a choreographer and educator has allowed me to develop a myriad of experiences as a teaching artist. After facing COVID-19 closures, I developed a virtual education platform for my dance company and have successfully delivered virtual dance education programming to pre-professional, professional, adult, and youth dancers. I have used my virtual dance education program to teach both technical, improvisation, and composition classes. I continued these educational initiatives in my newest appointment as the Adjunct Professor at the Arts & Education Center in New Jersey. Classes consist of in-person and online semester-long courses in technique, composition, and improvisation with Middlesex, Monmouth and Union Community Colleges, involving high school and college students. With my experience in designing and implementing both traditional and virtual curricula, I believe I am equipped to teach in any setting which has also led me to teach The Culturally Diverse Language of Dance course at SUNY Old Westbury. I have had numerous teaching experiences at colleges and have offered many master classes and workshops. I have previously taught at the Pace University Summer ARTS Program, Sarah Lawrence College, Wilson College, University of Southern Mississippi, Barnard College Liberty State Partnerships, and most recently, at StudioRepublik Conservatory in Dubai. At StudioRepublik, I directed the dance department, was lead faculty, and I also partnered with the theater and music departments. While there, I coordinated and designed curriculum and taught a full schedule of adult and youth programming and strategized community engagement planning and implementation. These opportunities have truly immersed me in the field of dance education at both a professional and high artistic level. I am an experienced teacher of modern, contemporary, ballet, Cameroonian dance, jazz, hip-hop, partnering + contact improvisation, improvisation, and composition. Additionally, I have experience in arts management, dance film, writing, anatomy, dance history, and I have become passionate about exploring the creative ways in which my students can seek their own artistic paths. One of my core philosophies in regards to teaching is enabling my students to think outside of the typical norms of physical health and for them to embrace the arts as a factor of their overall wellbeing and personal development.