DR. ALICE BLOCH

 Alice Bloch has a doctorate in dance history from Temple University with a dissertation on Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky and the cultural construction of the body, and a choreographic MA from UCLA. She is a 4th generation Isadora Duncan dancer. She has taught Duncan dance at Temple University, Swarthmore College, Washington University, and the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

 A Center of Creative Arts (COCA) arts integration specialist, Alice uses dance to teach peace, math, science, and literacy. Her professional development workshops include How to Dance a Painting, at Michigan State University and the St Louis Art Museum, and Dancing Peace at the Missouri Art Teachers 2013 conference. She serves on the boards of the Missouri Dance Organization and the Missouri Alliance for Arts in Education. ndependent productions of her own and Duncan’s choreography include Dance: Self and Spirit, (2009), DanceLife: Celebrating 50 Years of Dancing, (2014), and Together Again, (2015).

Alice, a Regional Arts Commission Artists Fellow, is the lead dance writer and editor for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Culture. Alice teaches creative dance to seniors and leads movement in the Art and Alzheimer’s program at the Kemper Museum, Washington University. In 1991 she founded the Dance Program at Lindenwood University where she taught until 2006.

 Dr Bloch will present today a talk on “Modern American Movement”