Erin Lane

"Mind is the source of all movement . . ." (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 283). I love exploring that in dance classes physically and metaphysically.

Erin Lane teaches Ballet, Modern, Dance History, Dance Composition, Dance as Movement, and directs the Spring Dance Production. She has trained and performed abroad in Montreal, Canada and Salzburg, Austria. Erin has worked with contemporary companies ESS:Danceworks and SYREN Modern Dance and numerous contemporary choreographers in New York City. She has served as a teaching artist, program director, lead instructor, choreographer, and curriculum development specialist in privates studios and public schools in New York City and St. Louis. Erin dances with St. Louis based site-specific dance company, Leverage Dance Theater as a guest performer where she originated two characters for the company's highly successful educational programing performances.

Scholarly Interests

• Arts Integration
• Improvisation
• Alexander Technique
• The influence of world dance forms on the development of concert dance and social dance forms
• Site-specific social choreography

Contributions to Field

• Served in a variety of directorial positions of dance schools and studios 
• Choreography has been presented across the Riverbend Area, Give Dance a Chance Festival Alton, IL, and in the St. Louis Dance Festival
• Lane's MFA thesis concert, Beyond the Divide (December 2017), marked the first site-specific dance concert in Alton, IL

Awards

• J.S. Seidman Award for Excellence in the Field of Dance from NYU Tisch Dance
• Chancellor's Award from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts

Memberships and Affiliations

• National Dance Education Organization
• PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique) certified instructor