Mariah Steele Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Ny, Us

Rochester, New York Area

• Designed and taught two brand new courses: DAN155: Movement Revolutions: A Cultural History of Social Dance and DAN202: Dance & Peacebuilding• Taught courses totaling 18 credits per year, including DAN160: Dance Improvisation, DAN250: Intermediate Contemporary Dance: Context & Practice and DAN195: World Dance: Movement as Culture• Mentored students in choreography, teaching and performance• Initiated and carried out a bi-weekly Newsletter to inform all students enrolled in dance courses about upcoming events and to communicate with Majors and Minors

Cambridge, Ma And Oakland, Ca

• Envision, plan, choreograph, direct, perform and produce performances• Manage between three to 15 dancers and develop group dynamics through collaborative processes• Fundraised between $4,000 and $11,000 each year since 2012• Organized a week-long tour to the Festival St-Ambroise Fringe in Montreal, Quebec• Write grants, press releases and newsletters; research venues and performances; manage budgets and scheduling; design and maintain website; publicize performances• Choreograph dances based on interdisciplinary topics including science, history and anthropology• Choreography presented through the Northeast from New Jersey to Maine and in California’s Bay Area; dance-on-films have aired throughout the Midwestwww.quicksilverdance.com

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of physicists, educational researchers and dance professionals on a two-year research project funded by the National Science Foundation with the goal of learning how teaching Physics through movement may help black and Latino high school students – traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM fields – afford identities as scientists• Develop a syllabus and set of movement activities for teaching high school Physics through an iterative process of workshops, observation of and interviews with students; co-teach with physicists• Instrumental in designing, writing and editing the original proposal to the NSF over two years

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Freelance Teaching Highlights include:• Co-created and co-taught the course “Science, Dance and The Creative Process” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with two oceanographers to explore intersections of the creative and scientific processes; mentored students’ artistic growth (Fall Semester 2014)• Choreographed a dance for nine students about the science behind California's drought as a Guest Choreographer and Adjunct Lecturer at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA (2015-2016)• Taught modern dance, improvisation and composition for the highest-level students, aged 12-21, at Berkeley Ballet Theater in Berkeley, CA (2016-2017)• Developed and taught month long cross-cultural choreography for young women from 13 different Asian countries at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh (2010)• Taught Modern Dance master classes in Bangladesh (2010), Sri Lanka (2005) and Ghana (2003) • Guest lectured on using dance in peacebuilding at Tufts University (2016), Drew University (2015), Boston University (2012, 2013, 2014), Project Social Impact (2013, 2014), The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2013), Brandeis University (2013), Jose Mateo Dance Theater (2013), Boston Center for the Arts (2012) and Emerson College (2011) Freelance Performance Highlights Include: • New York City: Performed for James Martin Music/Dance; Beth Soll & Company; and Kelley Donovan & Dancers (2006-2008). Reconstructing Ze’eva Cohen’s Solo Repertory (2011-2012)• Boston Area: Performed for Peter DiMuro’s Public Displays of Motion (2014-2015); Rebecca Rice Dance (2010-2015); Anna Sokolow Now! The Anna Sokolow Archival Company (2011); Nell Breyer (2011-2012); Sara Smith (2009)

Beverly, Massachusetts

• Taught “Modern Dance Techniques,” which combined performance skills with technique; re-vamped the class format to include more critical thinking and analysis • Re-wrote the syllabus and taught “Dance History” with an interactive approach combining lectures, discussions and videos with hands-on dance practice; student enrollment in the course increased five-fold between the first and third semester, reaching the maximum enrollment possible • Initiated, wrote the syllabus for and taught a new course: “World Dance Cultures” • Wrote six new syllabi as the Performing Arts Department expanded

Ab, Anthropology

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Dance

Mald, The Fletcher School Of Law And Diplomacy