dance teaching
As an Assistant Professor of Dance at Sam Houston State University, Adele currently teaches all levels of contemporary technique and composition, contemporary ballet, anatomy & kinesiology, dance criticism & analysis, and graduate-level courses in dance theory and somatic practices .
Before moving to Texas, Adele was a Pre-Doctoral Lecturer at the University of Washington, where she taught ballet and modern technique, Introduction to Dance, and the dance department’s first-ever course in the Alexander Technique. She also served as a teaching assistant for UW’s Dance Appreciation and Dance in America (online) courses, and developed an advanced teaching methods course (as her master’s project).
Previously, Adele taught ballet and modern throughout Europe and East Asia; at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and in public schools in the Bronx; at Jacob's Pillow in Beckett, MA, and at Bryn Mawr College; and in Washington State at Whitman College and Western Washington University. While living in New York, Adele served on faculty at Movement Research, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique.
Adele is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher and brings her knowledge of somatic practices and anatomy to all her dance classes. Click here to read more about Adele’s Alexander teaching, and here to read more about her anatomy teaching.